Ashton Kutcher reveals why he was fired from Cameron Crowe film
Ashton Kutcher has recalled how was fired from the 2005 Cameron Crowe film Elizabethtown.
Kutcher began filming the movie, about a troubled man dealing with his father's death who meets a plucky and optimistic flight attendant along the way and falls in love.
The flight attendant was played by Kirsten Dunst, but early on in production, director Crowe decided that Kutcher and Dunst lacked chemistry.
In fact, the Almost Famous helmsman had originally wanted Orlando Bloom for the role, but found him unavailable, as the English actor was making the Crusades flop Kingdom of Heaven with Ridley Scott at the time.
Speaking to Sean Evans on the Hot Ones web series, he recalled (via E!), “Yeah, I’ll say fired, sure. [Crowe] originally wanted Orlando Bloom for Elizabethtown and Orlando Bloom was working on a Ridley Scott picture, and wasn’t available.
“So I went [to] audition, he cast me and then we started working on it. I think he wanted to see the character rehearsals all the way, and I probably wasn’t disciplined enough as an actor to get myself to a point where I was able to do that and show it to him in a way that he felt comfortable.
“At a certain point we just kind of agreed that it wasn’t working out. More him than me. But also, I found out at the same time that Orlando Bloom had just become available right when he was gonna let me go.”
As it turns out, Kutcher was probably better off missing out. Elizabethtown, which also starred Alec Baldwin, Susan Sarandon and Jessica Biel, was largely panned by critics and grossed only $52 million at the box office.
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