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1980s Movie Trivia: Rejected Roles
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Click below to see which actors turned down roles in the best movies of the 1980s. Where does this sort of trivia come from? Movie fans from around the world submit fun trivia to us from TV interviews, books, magazine articles, DVD commentary, and other Hollywood and entertainment sources around the Internet.

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Chuck Norris in The Karate Kid?
Chuck Norris turned down the part of John Kreese (Cobra Kai Sensei).

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Popular Actors in the 1980s
Click to see which films they turned down:
- Debra Winger
- Tatum O'Neal
- Kim Basinger
- Melanie Griffith
- Brooke Shields
- Jennifer Jason Leigh
- Jack Nicholson
- Mickey Rourke
- Jessica Lange
- Dustin Hoffman
- John Travolta
- Jodie Foster
- Sigourney Weaver
- Al Pacino
- Goldie Hawn
- Barbra Streisand
- Michelle Pfeiffer
- Julie Christie
- Marilu Henner
- Sylvester Stallone

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