{"id":89334,"date":"2023-10-08T07:33:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T14:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=89334"},"modified":"2023-10-08T07:33:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T14:33:20","slug":"natalie-portman-was-fired-from-this-iconic-film-starring-leonardo-dicaprio-to-avoid-causing-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/natalie-portman-was-fired-from-this-iconic-film-starring-leonardo-dicaprio-to-avoid-causing-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalie Portman was fired from this iconic film starring Leonardo Dicaprio to avoid causing controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned actress <strong>Natalie Portman<\/strong>, although she has achieved great and important performances in the world of cinema, such as in the three installments of &#8216;Thor&#8217;, &#8216;The Black Swan&#8217;, the &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; saga and other truly successful titles, comments that she obtained the leading role in one of the most iconic titles on the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8216;<strong>Romeo and Juliet<\/strong>&#8216;, this classic romantic tragedy by the poet and playwright <strong>William Shakespeare<\/strong>, was adapted to film, and was released in 1996. Natalie Portman was part of the main cast, since she was the one who would play Juliet, however There was a problem, although her performance was truly impeccable, her age did not favor her.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Natalie-Portman-almost-played-Juliet-alongside-Leonardo-Dicaprio.-Find-out-why-not.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"703\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Natalie-Portman-almost-played-Juliet-alongside-Leonardo-Dicaprio.-Find-out-why-not.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Natalie-Portman-almost-played-Juliet-alongside-Leonardo-Dicaprio.-Find-out-why-not-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Natalie-Portman-almost-played-Juliet-alongside-Leonardo-Dicaprio.-Find-out-why-not-1024x600.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Natalie-Portman-almost-played-Juliet-alongside-Leonardo-Dicaprio.-Find-out-why-not-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Natalie-Portman-almost-played-Juliet-alongside-Leonardo-Dicaprio.-Find-out-why-not-750x439.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Natalie-Portman-almost-played-Juliet-alongside-Leonardo-Dicaprio.-Find-out-why-not-1140x668.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Portman was only 13 years old, much less <strong>Leonardo DiCaprio<\/strong>, who had obtained the role to give life to Romeo and he was 21 years old, already of legal age, which would cause a lot of <strong>controversy<\/strong> in the scenes where a lot of affection was shown between both actors.<\/p>\n<p>Through an interview for <strong>The New York Times<\/strong>, the actress revealed that &#8220;<em><strong>Fox said that it seemed like Leonardo DiCaprio was abusing me when we kissed<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;, and this was the reason for her dismissal from the production, thus the actress who would get the role would be <strong>Claire Dan\u00e9s<\/strong>, with a majestic performance and highly acclaimed by critics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-89354\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Natalie-Portman-was-replaced-by-Claire-Danes-in-this-iconic-film.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"663\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Natalie-Portman-was-replaced-by-Claire-Danes-in-this-iconic-film.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Natalie-Portman-was-replaced-by-Claire-Danes-in-this-iconic-film-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Natalie-Portman-was-replaced-by-Claire-Danes-in-this-iconic-film-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Natalie-Portman-was-replaced-by-Claire-Danes-in-this-iconic-film-750x486.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Watch the <strong>trailer<\/strong> for this movie &#8216;Romeo and Juliet&#8217;, which was finally starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4VBsi0VxiLg&amp;t\" title=\"Romeo and Juliet 1996 trailer\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4VBsi0VxiLg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you think it was a good idea to fire Natalie Portman from the love and tragedy movie based on Shakespeare&#8217;s successful novel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned actress Natalie Portman, although she has achieved great and important performances in the world of cinema, such as in the three installments of &#8216;Thor&#8217;, &#8216;The Black Swan&#8217;, the &#8216;Star Wars&#8217; saga and other truly successful titles, comments that she obtained the leading role in one of the most iconic titles on the big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":89353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1399,7,1361],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89334","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"category-news","9":"category-social-network"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89334","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\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}