{"id":85896,"date":"2023-09-18T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=85896"},"modified":"2023-09-18T12:01:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:01:23","slug":"brad-pitt-and-leonardo-dicaprio-turned-down-the-lead-roles-in-this-3-oscar-winning-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/brad-pitt-and-leonardo-dicaprio-turned-down-the-lead-roles-in-this-3-oscar-winning-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio turned down the lead roles in this 3 Oscar-winning film"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the film industry there are different names that have marked history and have become of utmost importance, since there are actors that reach such a high rank that all productions want them, making them very selective in the projects they choose to belong to.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are films of which not much is known and they want to have a certain profile of actors, but often they do not accept for different reasons, and this would have been the case of a film rejected by actors of great caliber such as Leonardo Dicaprio<\/strong>, Brad Pitt and even Matt Damon, but what they did not expect, is that this film would end up winning several academy awards.<\/p>\n

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Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio turned down the lead roles in this 3 Oscar-winning film.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In 2006, Brokeback Mountain hit theaters with such an impressive story that millions of people have seen so far.<\/p>\n

Brokeback Mountain<\/strong> tells the story of the unexpected romance between two men in the mid-1960s who fall in love while tending cattle in the mountains and from then on lead double lives with their families.<\/p>\n

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“Nobody wanted to do it. I was working on it and I felt we needed a really strong cast, like a famous cast. It didn’t work out. I interviewed the usual stars – Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ryan Phillippe. They all said no.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/figure>\n \n

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The film was a huge commercial success, grossing $178 million<\/strong> at the box office despite a budget of $14 million. It also received three Academy Awards: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the film industry there are different names that have marked history and have become of utmost importance, since there are actors that reach such a high rank that all productions want them, making them very selective in the projects they choose to belong to. There are films of which not much is known and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2981,"featured_media":85899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1399,7,950],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85896","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"category-news","9":"category-showbiz"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85896"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=85896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}