Julia Roberts originally first choice for ‘Shakespeare in Love’, quit after shitty chemistry tests

[masterofmystery]

'It Was a Disaster': Julia Roberts Quit 'Shakespeare in Love' After Awful Chemistry Reads and Cost the Studio $6 Million, Says Producer Ed Zwick https://t.co/wA17tdQhV3
- Variety (@Variety) March 6, 2023
With mere days before the Oscars, let's look back at one of the most undeserving BP winners, 1998's ‘Shakespeare in Love

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[andisprohi]

[ty]

I better sit right here.

[amelancholyme]

[moddchicc]

Dead @ Julia hungrily trying to woo DDL, lol. Her loss re: Ralph

[genbu_no_miko24]

Ralph is a dreamboat! Lol at her saying he wasn't funny when he was HILARIOUS and PERFECT in movies like The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Menu!

[moddchicc]

He sure was

[genbu_no_miko24]

Ralph wasn't a big name at that point. A year later he'd break out with Schindler's List.

[donaestrangera]

the way i know so much about the drama behind this movie but i've never actually sat down and watched it lol. it doesn't really seem like anyone has sat down and watched it since 1998.

[genbu_no_miko24]

I haven't seen it in YEARS but I remember liking it. But lol it's BP win is forever overshadowed by the drama and how much everyone knows it shouldn't have won.

[donaestrangera]

yeah i just think it's funny in 2023 no one ever talks about the actual movie, just the drama behind the movie! now i'll have to watch it to find out what the fuss is about.

[pop_squash]

Idk. I like it. There are some good Shakespeare jokes, beautiful costumes, and nice music. Goop will forever have been miscast, but the same would have gone for Julia.

[genbu_no_miko24]

"wanted Daniel Day-Lewis to be her male lead (she was in London for the following chaos). He turned it down due to commitments to film “In the Name of the Father”

He was also offered the role of Lestat in Interview with the Vampire too but dropped out cause he was pre-occupied with in In the Name of the Father too.

I could never imagine Julia in that role.

[adrock]

ddl would’ve been amazing! pitt would go, though - he dragged things down enough in the movie we got.

if river phoenix lived to be the journalist….something would’ve shifted.

[thatgum_youlike]

lol i wonder if she was so set on ddl that she deliberately tanked things when he declined… bit of an overreaction but tbh i get it

[masterofmystery]

That’s actually alluded in the article so you interpreted correctly

[fernandocolunga]

What an asshole if that’s true

[anterrabre]

She IS an asshole, so...