Blind Item #5
This actress is probably D list now. A few years ago she was just about A list. She was on a very hit network television show and had just been cast as the lead in a popcorn flick that went on to make hundreds of millions of dollars. She never got to shoot that movie though because she overdosed on the set of the show. The overdose part was kept quiet, but she was quietly asked to leave the show and the movie role went to someone else who has become an A list all movie actress.
Mischa?
ReplyDeleteMischa Barton maybe
ReplyDeleteMischa or taylor m but I'm leaning towards mischa. Now what's the movie.
ReplyDeleteCan Mischa sing? Don't know why, and am not even sure if it fits but Amanda Seyfried and Mama Mia come to mind.
ReplyDeleteMischa is a go to guess. Enty always seems to know a heck of a lot about that chick. I always liked her and she seems to be looking happy---although her career could be better. But hey at least shes working. Didn't she overdose at Nicole Richies house/
ReplyDeleteTwilight is the movie franchise. Kristen was not the original Bella.
ReplyDeleteTwilight's not a popcorn flick---
ReplyDeleteWhat young actress unexpectedly left a hit network show a few years ago?
ReplyDeleteBy the time Mischa left, The OC wasn't really a huge hit anymore and I don't think she had been cast in any major popcorn flicks.
Other than Twilight/KS, are there any popcorn flicks where a young actress got their big break/became A list?
Btw, given all the craziness we know about the Twilight set/the intense tween interest from day 1 of production, I think if there had been a Bella other than KS who actually showed up on set and then got fired, we'd know.
ReplyDeleteIt's not? Aren't all movies popcorn flicks?
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't have to be someone that young.
ReplyDeleteIn investigating Twilight, I discovered that Courtney Love says Francis was offered the Bella role. Of course no one else has said that, and I really don't think it's Francis, but I thought this trivia was amusing.
Probably Mischa Barton, but could also be Samaire Armstrong. She left Dirty Sexy Money to go into rehab. She might still be higher than D though since she works quite a bit now.
ReplyDelete@beth, she never started shooting the movie; the overdose was on the set of the TV show.
ReplyDelete@Char, was Dirty Sexy Money a very hit show? I thought that it didn't last long.
ReplyDelete@Ella Bee - I agree. What the heck is a popcorn movie then??
ReplyDelete@ Karen -- So sorry! You're totally correct, I read it wrong. It could be someone who was supposed to play Bella then... although it still seems unlikely to me that the "first pick" for such a visible role wouldn't have gotten any press at all.
ReplyDeleteOk so Mischa being replaced by Anne Hathaway for Devil Wears prada or being replaced for Rachel McAdams in Red Eye?
ReplyDeletenot all the clues fit exactly but Olivia Thirlby was replaced by Amber Heard in Pineapple Express
ReplyDeletewhen was kstew ever on a tv show
ReplyDelete@ Derek -- Where did you hear that about Mischa/TDWP? That would be a good guess, if true... but google turns up nothing.
ReplyDeleteOlivia Thirlby is ht leading lady in a movie that's in post production. I think that would make her at least C+ list. Plus she was pretty good in Dredd.
ReplyDeleteI just checked IMDB when Mischa left OC and The Devil Wears Prada began production a few months later and it was Anne Hathaways first big movie----just a guess though
ReplyDeleteI think that's a very good guess, not only for the timing and other clues fitting, but because I can totally picture Mischa being seen as perfect for that part (before she became a public hot mess).
DeleteThe Twilight movies have made billions, not hundreds of millions. I don't think KStew is the lucky benefactor here. Besides she had some recognition for good work in Adventure Land and Panic Room before Twilight came along.
ReplyDeleteWhat is a popcorn movie?
ReplyDeleteI THINK a "popcorn movie" is some kind of blockbuster that's overly hyped with a fairly mindless plot. It's often an action film, and it may have a big summer or holiday release. Am I correct?
ReplyDeleteNot to split hairs but The OC was not a hit "network" show. Enty has always referred to that show as being on an almost network.
ReplyDeleteWhat about Kellie Martin? She was rather shockingly killed off of ER out of the blue...went from a high profile NBC show back to doing tv movies.
ReplyDeleteAKM has the right definition.
ReplyDeleteThe O.C. was on FOX. That's a network. The CW is the only "almost network" I can think of. Kellie Martin chose to quit ER because it brought back too many memories of her sister being in the hospital. I think Mischa is the best guess, but I don't know of any movies she was cast in.
ReplyDeleteJust found this list of the others who were up for belle by Stephanie Meyer
ReplyDeleteEllen Page, Danielle Panabaker, Emily Browning, Alexis Bledel, Rachel McAdams, Anna Paquin
the one & only recast that i know is Claire Danes replacing Sophia Bush on Terminator 3 but it doesn't fit
ReplyDeleteHow about someone that was originally up for Transformers or Fantastic Four?
ReplyDeleteMaggie Grace ..Lost.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Mitchell ..Lost
Thandie Newton ..ER
Maggie Grace ..Lost.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Mitchell ..Lost
Thandie Newton ..ER
Thanks, AKM!
ReplyDeleteNew A List all movie :
ReplyDeleteEmma Stone - Easy A
Michelle Trachtenberg was supposed to get the role of Bella. It never happened for "some reason." She was friends with the first director and on Gossip Girl at the time I believe.
ReplyDeletea popcorn movie:
ReplyDelete1. a summer action flick, not monumental, a good waste of time.
2. A popcorn movie is lightweight as opposed to serious. An example of a lightweight film is "Dude, Where's My Car" (2000). An example of serious films are "Citizen Kane" (1941) and "Regarding Henry" (1991).
I thought of Katherine Heigl. She was on Grey's.
ReplyDeleteElisha Cuthbert, who played Kim Bauer on 24. She wound up returning to the show for the last season.
ReplyDeleteMischa
ReplyDeleteScary Movie
Mischa
ReplyDeleteScary Movie
I'm with Unknown on this one. As soon as someone mentioned Twilight I thought of Michelle Trachtenberg, who was on Gossip Girl and considered for the part of Bella.
ReplyDeleteMichelle Trachtenberg, interesting guess, but the Mischa/Anne guess has some legs!
ReplyDeleteI still hate whiny Dawn.
I remember Pamela Anderson carted out of "Bay Watch" set by ambulance, so I'll guess Pam and maybe the movie as "Something About Mary" with Cameron Diaz.
ReplyDeleteMichelle Rodriguez. /Lost
ReplyDeleteI don't think it's Twilight. To me it reads like a single hit movie, not a franchise. I like the Emma Stone/ Easy A guess. Or Emma Stone/ Zombieland. Was anyone else up for those roles?
ReplyDeleteRe: Zombieland, this is all I can find so far: "Both Evan Rachel Wood and Megan Fox turned down the role of Wichita, while Amber Tamblyn auditioned. " Don't think it's any of them. It does say that Emma Stone was originally cast as "406." Maybe she was bumped up after someone else got canned.
ReplyDeleteDemi Lovato comes to mind.
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