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EASY BEING
GREEN!
THEY COULD HAVE
BEEN HEROES!
MISSEDOPPORTUNITIESOFTHEWEEK
AMANDA SEYFRIED
“I didn’t want to be
green for six months
out of every year,”
the actress, 33,
says of turning
down a “big” role —
which sounds like
Zoe Saldana’s
Guardians of the
Galaxy character,
Gamora.E M I LY B LU NT
A scheduling conflict forced the
actress, 36, to back out of playing
The Avengers’ Black Widow.
Scarlett Johansson got the job
— and is now the world’s highest-
paid actress! But if she’d done it,
says Emily, “I don’t think I would
have been able to do a lot of
projects that I’ve loved doing.”JESSICA CHASTAIN
“Why do a superhero movie and
play the boring civilian?” says the
42-year-old, who said no to
playing Ant-Man’s love interest.
Ev angeline Lilly said yes — and the
character turned into butt-kicking
hero Wasp in the sequel!
KATE BECKINSALE
The actress, 46, says she once
turned down a chance to play
Wonder Woman because the
character was nothing like the
version Gal Gadot ended up
playing: “It would have been
a terrible movie.”JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT
The actor, 38, passed on
Guardians of the Galaxy...tomake
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For. Hi s
decision certainly benefitedChris
Pratt, who now plays Star-Lord!MATT DAMON
Though the 48-year-old
says he and Ben Affleck
both loved Daredevil
comics, he “didn’t like
the script” for the 2003
movie — so Ben took over!WILL SMITH
Why didn’t this superstar,
50, don the Man of
Steel’s cape in Superman
Returns? “You mess up
white people’s heroes in
Hollywood, you’ll never
work in this town again!”
says Will. Brandon Routh
took the job, but the movie
wasn’t a blockbuster, and
his career didn’t take off.