A Low-Balled Author, a Star With No Salary and a 'Successful Failure' at the Box Office: 25 Forrest Gump Facts
all turned down the role of Bubba. Ice Cube refused to play what he thought was an"idiot," while Chappelle simply thought the movie would fail. He's gone on to admit his deep regret in passing.also auditioned for the role, though it seems he was never in serious contention for it.
14. To play Bubba, Mykelti Williamson wore a prosthetic lip to create the character's protruding lower lip. In 1997, he said that the character's look nearly derailed his career."I couldn't get a job after Forrest Gump," Williamson told."The industry didn't realize that I was wearing a lip device and that I was the same guy who had appeared in 11 TV series. They thought the director had discovered some weird-looking guy and put him in front of the camera.
18. If you pay close enough attention, every single time you see a still photo of Forrest in the film, he has his eyes closed.was cast as Forrest Jr. after the casting director noticed him in a Pizza Hut commercial. Osment would later reveal that, because his character was named after the film's title character, he believed that the film was about him. To be fair, he was six at the time.
20. While Forrest's line about life and a box of chocolates has gone down as one of the most iconic and quoted in film history, it read quite differently in the movie's source material."Let me say this: bei'n a idiot is no box of chocolates," Forrest says in the novel."People laugh, lose patience, treat you shabby. Now they says folks s'posed to be kind to the afflicted, but let me tell you – it ain't always that way.
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