- Elaine Hendrix, The Munsters’ Scary Little Christmas, TV, 1996. Most of the cast voted themselves out of a job… Including Taylor, ex-Marilyn Munster. The reboot family from Here Come The Munsters, 1994 – succeeding TV’s Fred Gwynne, Yvonne De Carlo, Al Lewis, etc – was due for the Yuletide sequel. Edward Herrmann, however, wanted a small pay rise for continuing as the patriarch, Herman(!). Impossible, declared the producers. Unless the rest of the family accepted a tiny pay-cut to pay for it. They did not. The film was made with all new Munsters. (An almost identical pay battle was the pivot of the Belgian entry at the 2014 Cannes Festival, Deux jours, une nuit/Two Days, One Night).
- Julianne Nicholson, August: Osage County, 2012. Oklahoma playwright (and actor) Tracy Letts wanted the Steppenwolf cast of his 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning play to be in the film. He was downright furious when Brits (plus an Aussie) were seen for the dysfunctional Westons. “They must be all-Americans!” Producer Harvey Weinstein won the battle for Benedict Cumberbatch and Ewan McGregor but gave in about Judi Dench (too old, anyway, at 78) and Nicole Kidman. Therefore, candidates for Ivy, the middle daughter, includedKristin Davis, Lauren Graham, Idina Menzel and Christine Taylor … for what seemed like a Western-set take on Lilian Hellman’s Little Foxes.
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