Pacino As Han Solo?! Actors Who Turned Down Brilliant Roles And Probably Regretted It

Keanu Reeves as Neo, Tom Hanks as Forest Gump - sometimes in Hollywood an actor plays a role so perfectly you would have thought it was written specially for them. Well more often than not, it wasn’t. Actually some of our favorite movies could have ended up looking very different if another actor hadn’t of passed up a leading role first.

10. Al Pacino: Han Solo, 'Star Wars'

It might be hard to imagine Tony Montana as Han Solo, but it very nearly happened. Pacino was first offered the role and turned it down because he didn't understand it. He told the audience of ‘An Evening with Al Pacino' last year, "...it was mine for the taking but I didn’t understand the script." Pacino probably doesn't have many regrets over passing on a part in the long running franchise, in the same interview he referred to working on' The Godfather' trilogy as "a long, awful, tiring story."

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