These 25 Actors Who Turned Down Huge Movie Roles

Nicolas Cage as Aragorn

Movie: Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

Played by: Viggo Mortensen

Thank all that is holy, Nick Cage didn’t take the role of Aragon in the Lord of the Rings. He may have single-handedly ruined the trilogy. “There were different things going on in my life at the time that precluded me from being able to travel and be away from home for three years,” he told Newsweek. Mortensen might be a weirdo off camera, but the man can act and swing a sword.



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