Kaley Cuoco admits she thought Kate Hudson’s role in Knives Out 2 would go to her instead
"I was so convinced that my bags were packed for Greece," says The Flight Attendant star
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Seemingly every day of 2021, there was a new announcement of who’d just been cast in Knives Out 2. It was a pretty eclectic mix too, with Kathryn Hahn, Dave Bautista, Janelle Monáe, Edward Norton, Leslie Odom Jr., Kate Hudson, Madelyn Cline, and Jessica Henwick all joining the film. But out of all of those random famous people, someone didn’t make the cut: Kaley Cuoco.
Cuoco, who currently stars in HBO’s hit series The Flight Attendant, tells Glamour in a new interview that she was fully convinced Kate Hudson’s role would go to her instead.
“I was convinced [the part was mine]. Kate Hudson ended up getting it. But I was so convinced that my bags were packed for Greece,” she says. “And then I didn’t get it. I was so devastated. And I’m not [normally] devastated over roles. I had done chemistry reads, I had done Zooms. And I didn’t get it. I cried and I cried all night long.”
However, she admits that she got a call about Meet Cute, the upcoming rom-com she stars in alongside Pete Davidson, the next day.
“They were like, ‘We have an interesting script.’ And I said, ‘I don’t want to read anything. I suck. No one wants me.’ They said, ‘You’ve got to read this.’ And Pete was already attached, and I’m like, ‘Okay, I’ll read it,’” she recalls. “And when I did, I said, ‘This is the most magical little script.’ And I would’ve never gotten it if I [got] Knives. It just shows you that you’re where you’re supposed to be.”
When asked if she ever heard feedback on why the role didn’t go to her, Cuoco says no, but taking a page from Andrew Garfield’s school of acting, does her best at convincing interviewer Jessica Radloff that she “couldn’t be happier with how things turned out” and says she’ll maybe “audition for the third one.”
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Hey, I was convinced I was gonna win the 2017 Oscar for Best Director. Do an article on me.
Nobody was going to win any awards for “The Emoji Movie”.
But it didn’t happen, and apparently that’s an important takeaway these days!
But it’s based on the best selling “Big Book of Emojis”!
Good news! They’re doing an article on you.Bad news! Barsanti is writing it.
Swing … and a miss. The way you somehow managed to completely miss the point is .. I dunno … male? Is that it?
Same thing you’re doing right now.
Hope Kaley gets whatever work she’s after, as long as she keeps portraying Harley.
Hayley Karley?
My chafing dish!
SO . . . she ADMITS it!What do we do now?
““They were like, ‘We have an interesting script.’ And I said, ‘I don’t want to read anything. I suck. No one wants me.’ They said, ‘You’ve got to read this.’ And Pete was already attached, and I’m like, ‘Okay, I’ll read it,’” she recalls. “And when I did, I said, ‘This is the most magical little script.’ And I would’ve never gotten it if I [got] Knives. It just shows you that you’re where you’re supposed to be.””Deep
Unless something like this happens, I don’t see how this is even a step sideways, let alone up.(Warning, may be NSFW and not just because Pete Davidson is in it!)
“It just shows you that you’re where you’re supposed to be.”Where should I be to cover next month’s rent?
Cheesecake Factory?
“It just shows you’re where you’re supposed to be.”It’s easy for her to believe this tripe when she’s young, beautiful, rich and famous. I wonder if she thinks cancer victims and homeless people are where they’re supposed to be.
Yeah, what about mayflies that only live for a day?
A vast injustice!
Sometimes it rains.
Why so mad? It’s a very typical actor’s story; you don’t book a gig you tried hard to land, something else comes along, and you go with that. Save the hand wringing for something important.
This is on me for apparently not being clear. I’m not hand wringing or coming at this from a “woke,” perspective, I was making the point (poorly, apparently) that what she said is trite and vapid. The fact that you describe it as “a typical actor’s story” suggests we agree.
So it’s like a classic case of “Apples to Sweet Titties”?
And if she expressed unhappiness about it, you would undoubtedly be the person complaining that she’s young, beautiful, rich and famous, so what does she have to moan about.The press asks famous people questions because non-famous people want to read about famous people. The famous people oblige by saying something anodyne. This isn’t that hard.
You were being a cunt.
right, nothing vapid or trite at all about tossed off generic references to “cancer victims and homeless people”
“Got ‘em!”-You to yourself when you clicked publish
must be difficult to stay on top of your kinja notifications what with all your hours at the soup kitchen and Make-A-Wish foundation
Zing!
If you’re going to hyperventilate every time a famous person says something trite and vapid then I would suggest ignoring this website and pop culture in general.
If you’re on a pop culture website comparing actors to homeless people, you just might be going about this the wrong way.
Goddamn, that came out of nowhere. You’re coming in hot
Red hot, baby!!!
Well, the WHO says that 30-50% of all cancer cases are preventable, and homelessness isn’t genetic, so if you’re here to stir the shit, there you go.
Young? Mid-30s in Hollywood ain’t young. Doubly so for women.
Hollywood is awful.
And today’s shitty whataboutism is brought to you by…
You don’t understand what “whataboutism” means.
Heaven’s sake dude, she’s basically just making lemonade out of lemons and downplaying a career disappointment by noting something else came along soon after. Sure, it’s a little trite, maybe even a little thoughtless if you’re so inclined, but if we reacted with seething fury every time an actor said something a little trite and thoughtless we’d experience no joy in life whatsoever.
Breaking news: Actress wants work.
will wear ratty extensions to get it
Hi Jada!
Listen, you don’t get to fly out to Greece and have fun with super-famous fellow actors and actresses and working with one of the most accomplished modern directors we have right now, but you DO get to star next to whatever the fuck Pete Davidson is, so hey!
most accomplished modern directors? Did a few dozen of them die recently?
I mean, yeah. A few have.
Is it really a stretch to categorize him as such though?
Does dying make you less accomplished? Also, he said “one of” which you conveniently forgot. He could be one of 100 or 1000 most accomplished modern actors. That’s not a stretch and it’s not that great of a praise but you can’t even let him have that. Gee, I wonder why?
I can’t believe she would admit something like that in public.
I like the show where she voices the clown lady and hangs out with a talking shark.
Great show.
I want James Gunn to release “The Funches Cut” of Suicide Squad
Jabberjaw?
Gah. Even child me thought Jabberjaw was annoying.
I did not expect to like her as Harley Quinn & now she is my favorite Harley
I’m sure if she waits 5 minutes she’ll get a call from Christopher Nolan’s people because he’s trying to cast everyone who’s not in Knives Out 2 to be in his new flick.
That Babylon film and Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City both seem to be employing vast swathes of Hollywood, too. Also Barbie.All three have Margot Robbie in, as it happens, who was also in the stacked The Suicide Squad and the other film on her slate, Canterbury Glass, also seems to have every fucker in it.Maybe after lockdown everyone wants to see their actor mates so will accept small roles in big films. And also they all want to party with Margot.
Wait, Wes Anderson’s got a new film loaded? Jesus, I hope he winds it back from The French Dispatch, which felt like a parody of a Wes Anderson film.
Indeed he does, and the cast is predictably wild:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_City
I know what you mean about The French Dispatch, I was quite shocked tp see this very organ name it the best film of 2021.
I mean, if you took his name off it, and maybe switched out usual Wes Anderson suspects in the cast, I’d assume it was someone taking the piss out of a Wes Anderson film.I love the quirks in his films – I think we all do – but they’re normally done in the service of creating a wonderful world, and telling a fantastic story. TFD…it was quirks in service of a story. It was a loose association of stories, and the magazine framing device felt like an excuse to half-arse a few stories he had rattling around in his Moleskine for the last two decades, semi-completed, that he couldn’t really stretch into a full film. There was little coherency (or maybe I just didn’t care enough to pay attention…).Owen Wilson peddling while directly addressing the camera.The prison bit dragged on too long. The snapping back and forth between colour and black white, and especially not-freeze-frame-freeze-frames were just quirk for quirk’s sake.The chess students were…OK? But that felt like quaint American trivialisation and fetishisation of France’s proud history of protest. That kidnapping was interesting…but that random animated sequence was…ok? So this is happening now? Bill Murray was just in it for five seconds; Elizabeth Moss was thankfully in it for less (she’s one of the least Wes Anderson-y actors on the planet). Look, I’m willing to put a lot down to COVID, but I don’t think that adequately explains it.
Kaley Cuoco was my first childhood crush. I liked her in 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter. That show introduced me to David Spade, is it, that Just Shoot Me fella? Good show, good show. The actress that played her sister, did she do anything else apart from killing someone in one of those CSI Shows?
What an obnoxious asshole.
That hair and those eyebrows made me queasy
Not gonna watch a video when I can just imagine her voice breaking and trying to stifle sobs as she says “So I get to be in a Pete Davidson rom com instead!”