Winona Ryder could’ve been a contender.
The two-time Oscar nominee has starred alongside some of Hollywood’s most prominent male leads during her nearly 40-year career, from Daniel Day-Lewis to Leonardo DiCaprio. But as a young actress, the Stranger Things star missed out on a chance to work with Marlon Brando because of a morbid movie she starred in as a teenager.
In an interview with Elle UK published Wednesday, Ryder revealed that she was set to act in the 1990 Brando movie The Freshman—until the film’s producers saw her 1989 film Heathers.
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