How Dave Chappelle nearly landed but later lost a lead role on ‘Clueless’

Before Dave Chappelle made it big as a stand-up comedian and creating the ‘Chappelle Show’, Dave Chappelle was a struggling actor and apparently, he nearly landed a role on the hit movie ‘Clueless’.

In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the director of ‘Clueless’ Amy Heckerling revealed some hidden details about the cult classic movie including the fact that Dave Chappelle nearly landed the lead role.

Dave Chapelle came very close to nabbing the role of Murray, which eventually went to Donald Faison, but Chapelle already seemed a bit too mature for the part. “He was just amazing — he was such a mensch,” Heckeerling says, but “I needed somebody who was really innocent, a goofy kid.”

Heckerling also revealed that ‘Clueless’ started out as a failure. In fact, it was first a T.V. pilot. that was later rejected by Fox. In addition, Fox wanted the movie to be more about the guys and less about the girls. In fact, producers took the early script to Fox’s film department, and the execs liked it but wanted the script to “be geared more towards the [male characters], and I had problems with that,” Heckerling says.

After beginning his film career in 1993 as Ahchoo in Mel Brooks’ Robin Hood: Men in Tights, he landed minor roles in box office hits including The Nutty Professor, Con Air, and Blue Streak. His first lead role was in the 1998 comedy film Half Baked, directed by Tamra Davis and co-written by Neal Brennan and Chappelle himself. Dave Chappelle would also audition for the role of Bubba on ‘Forrest Gump’ and other big movies. However, Chappelle revealed in an interview that it was his biggest mistake to reject the role of Bubba.

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Was someone really trying to kidnap Emma Watson?

When you are a world famous celebrity you get a ton of great perks such as free movies, free clothes, and hanging out with other A-list celebrities. However, many celebrities become victims of bullying, stalkers, and even kidnapping.

According to reports, studio workers on Emma Watson’s new movie ‘Beauty and the Beast’ over heard someone planning to kidnap Emma Watson.

From Daily Mail:

‘There was concern about her safety. The taxi staff reported what had been overheard after a night shoot.’

‘They said the two studio staff travelling in the cab were chatting a foreign language, unaware that the driver could understand every word.’

On Friday, security around the site was reportedly increased in the wake of the alleged incident, said to have taken place last week.  

A guard is reported to have been posted outside Emma’s trailer on the film set to increase the safety of the Noah star, who has been the target of stalkers before, while she is on set.

Emma Watson and Disney reps later commented that the kidnapping plot was “unsubstantiated and untrue”. But, this is not the first time Emma Watson’s life was in danger. In 2011 on set of ‘Noah’, filming was shut down after an obsessed fan of the actress broke onto the film’s set.

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LeBron James didn’t take acting classes for the movie ‘Trainwreck’.

If LeBron was ever considering a career outside of basketball, then he may have found a new home in Hollywood.

According to USA Today, LeBron James said that he was told that he would be playing himself in the movie and he figured that would be easy enough to do without acting classes. “I can just show up, I’m LeBron, I’ll play basketball, and shoot some jumpers, I can dunk. And it was like ‘uh no, you’re actually going to be Bill’s best friend in the movie.’ And I’m like ‘so that means I’m going to have … lines?”

But, it’s interesting to point out that LeBron James never took a single acting class. According to a report by The Hollywood Reporter LeBron James never took a single acting class before working on the new movie ‘Trainwreck’.

What may come as a surprise is James eschewed acting lessons before taking on the Trainwreckrole, which required five days on set. “He’s been in front of the cameras since he was 18,” explained James’ business manager and childhood friend Maverick Carter. “He’s very comfortable in front of the camera. He didn’t need an acting coach.”

With each take, the lines changed slightly, but that’s Apatow’s improvisational style. Schumer, too, seemed to be deviating from a set script. But it’s clear that the sports icon was prepared and hit his lines and shots (the script called for him to rev up the crowd with some basketball theatrics) with nuclear-clock precision. Wearing a blue cardigan and white sneakers, James was there to deliver. On the Trainwreck set, the heat can’t touch him.

Many critics agreed. The Business Insider called LeBron James a pretty good actor.

LeBron James is certainly not the first or last professional sports star to be cast in a movie. But he’s one of the few who can actually act.

LeBron James may just be extremely talented on and off the court. Universal’s ‘Trainwreck’ opened Thursday night and is expected to make $30 million.

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