Sam Rockwell might not truly be within the 1989 movie Lean on Me, however he’s nonetheless paid for the function he virtually had.
The Oscar winner just lately shared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he, Michael Imperioli and Kevin Corrigan drove collectively in a van to New Jersey to audition for a single line within the film, starring Morgan Freeman and Beverly Todd.
Whereas Rockwell finally landed the function, he admitted they “by no means received to my scene” throughout filming. “In order that they needed to let me go as a result of they didn’t need to pay me for per week,” he stated, including that they only paid him for the day. “They have been like, we will’t pay him per week for one line.”
Imperioli was later forged for the function, however The White Lotus actor stated, “I nonetheless get residual checks for that despite the fact that I’m not in it.”
This wasn’t the one time Rockwell and Imperioli have been forged in the identical function. He additionally informed host Josh Horowitz that he was later referred to as to star in 1998’s Celeb, starring Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis and Leonardo DiCaprio.
“I used to be a part of DiCaprio’s entourage and I had just a few strains they usually stated, ‘Woody [Allen, director] needs you to dye your hair bleach blonde.’ And I stated, ‘I’m not dying my hair bleach blonde for like 5 strains. What are you loopy?’ And so they’re like, ‘Woody needs you to do it,’ and I’m like, ‘Properly I’m not doing it.’”
That’s when manufacturing informed him, “‘Properly Michael Imperioli was going to do it,’ ’trigger he had dropped out, and I used to be changing Michael as a result of Michael was going to do some pilot referred to as Sopranos,” he added earlier than quipping, “I heard it didn’t go wherever.”
Rockwell ended up giving in: “I stated, ‘All proper, I’ll dye my hair.’ And I bleached my hair.”
As for Imperioli, The Sopranos undoubtedly did go someplace, working for eight seasons and profitable a number of Emmys.