About a year before her Oscar win in 2004, Charlize Theron was desperate for another project, the one she was fired from. “I was tied to Chicago for a while– he explained in 2017 on the microphone of the podcast The Howard Stern Show.I really wanted to – I’ve been dancing all my life and there was a real nostalgia for me while making this film. I was kicked out. The director kicked me out. I was really disappointed with this. I think because they took me, I told myself that I was going to make a film and then they kicked me out.“
The actress confirmed that she originally played Roxie Hart, the film’s heroine who is accused of murdering her lover and sent to prison, in Rob Marshall’s 2003 big-budget musical (including Best Picture). But when the original director left the film, his replacement wanted to cast someone else in the role: Renee Zellweger, whose performance Charlize applauded.
“Another director was attached and he chose me. That director was fired and the new director they hired didn’t want to make the film with me. I got to play Renee Zellweger, who, by the way, did an incredible job. So yeah, I really envy her doing that, I’ve watched that movie so many times.“
“But here, I understand“- he added about the director’s decision to replace him. “I totally understand. However, I felt a little.“
Another missed role
However, Chicago is not the only role Charlize Theron lost She was very close to the lead role in the 1995 film Showgirls, but the role eventually went to actress Elizabeth Berkley. About ten years after the film’s release, Charlize remembers meeting Elizabeth and discussing what might happen, given that Showgirls After its publication, the press criticized it.
“He was really classy about itTheron said years later of Berkeley’s ability to laugh about being in her film. “He’s one of the nicest, kindest people I’ve ever met, I think.“
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