Though he's had an amazing career filled with TV and movie success, Michael J. Fox lives with a few Hollywood regrets — like turning down a role in the blockbuster film 'Ghost.'
Though he's had an amazing career filled with TV and movie success, Michael J. Fox lives with a few Hollywood regrets — like turning down a role in the blockbuster film"Ghost."By 1990, the Emmy winner’s hit NBC sitcom, “Family Ties,” ended after seven seasons, andhad wrapped. Not long after turning down “Ghost,” Fox appeared in a few notable flops, including “Life with Mikey” and “For Love or Money.
In 2015, Bruce Joel Rubin, the movie’s Oscar-winning screenwriter, opened up about casting the role of Sam for an anniversary story on"Ghost" published inThe filmmakers, said Rubin, “went to every major actor in Hollywood who was hot at the time.” Who turned down the part? “Everybody. Harrison Ford said, ‘I read this thing three times and I still don’t get it.’ Michael J. Fox, Paul Hogan, on and on, we kept getting turned down.
Producer Jerry Zucker held out hope that"Ghost" would find the perfect male lead, but Rubin told VF “finally there wasn’t anybody. ... When Patrick said yes, he basically saved the movie.”
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