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Roger Cormier\u00a0<\/b>and Mental_Floss<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/b>present 17 Facts About Misery<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 3. BETTE MIDLER TURNED DOWN THE ROLE OF ANNIE WILKES.<\/span><\/strong> 4. JAMES CAAN WAS FAR FROM THE FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY PAUL SHELDON. 14. CAAN AND BATES CLASHED OVER THEIR ACTING METHODS.<\/span><\/strong> Roger Cormier\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 17 Facts About Misery.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 3. BETTE MIDLER TURNED DOWN THE ROLE OF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13993,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13992\/revisions\/13993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nMidler thought it was too violent. She later called herself \u201cstupid\u201d for her decision. The Princess Bride<\/em>, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid<\/em>, and All the President’s Men<\/em>screenwriter William Goldman wrote Misery<\/em> with then unknown but respected theater actress\u00a0Kathy Bates in mind.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/strong>Kevin Kline, Michael Douglas, Harrison Ford, Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Richard Dreyfuss, Gene Hackman, and Robert Redford all said no to the role of Paul Sheldon. William Hurt said no twice. Warren Beatty showed a lot of interest and gave Reiner and Goldman ideas for the character before having to turn them down, too, because he had to keep working on Dick Tracy<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nCaan believed in as little rehearsal as possible. Bates, with her theater background, was used to practicing a lot. When Bates commented to Reiner that Caan wasn\u2019t attempting to relate or listen to her, Reiner told her to use that frustration toward her character.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"