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Taylor Swift nearly landed a role in the 2012 film “Les Miserables.”
Director Tom Hooper explained in a new interview that while Swift “rather brilliantly auditioned” for a role in the adaptation he ultimately passed on casting the superstar.
“I didn’t cast her, but I got very close to it. Ultimately, I couldn’t quite believe Taylor Swift was a girl people would overlook,” Hooper told Vulture. “So it didn’t quite feel right for her for the most flattering reason.”
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The role went to actress Samantha Barks.
Swift would get her chance for the big screen seven years later in Hooper’s “Cats.”
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However, Swift may have been better off in “Les Miserables” as the $100 million adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical bombed at the box office, taking in just $6.5 million in ticket sales its first weekends. Critics haven’t liked the film much better, as the movie drew an 18 percent fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes.
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