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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
Didn't Sean Connery turn down the role of Gandulf in the Lord of the Rings movies because he'd never heard of it before?
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Yup, or rather 'because he didn't understand it". They offered him a huge chunk of the Box Office take globally too. The fact that LotR did so well despite the fact that he didn't 'get it' prompted him to take another project he was offered that he didn't 'get'. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.