In Jaunary 2001, Catherine Zeta-Jones scoffed at rumors that she would play a Bond girl in the next James Bond film....

Robin Williams was not pleased when, shortly after the appearance of the 2002 film

Samuel L. Jackson landed the role of Mace Windu in the Star Wars prequels after mentioning that he would like to...

While she had longed to work with Peter Jackson and later likened working with a blue screen to playing a “cool video game,” Cate Blanchett also revealed another motivation for accepting the role of the elf queen Galadriel in The Lord of the Rings (against the advice of her agent, who thought she was mad to commit a year ahead for three weeks of work and limited screen time). “To be honest,” she said, “I basically did it so I could have the ears.” Sure enough, after filming wrapped, Cate left the set with her pointy elf ear prosthetics – which the crew had bronzed.

Though the novel received mixed reviews, legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis purchased the rights to...