{"id":11909,"date":"2025-12-09T13:15:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/these-brokeback-mountain-secrets-are-what-we-got-now\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T13:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:15:49","slug":"these-brokeback-mountain-secrets-are-what-we-got-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/these-brokeback-mountain-secrets-are-what-we-got-now\/","title":{"rendered":"These\u00a0Brokeback Mountain\u00a0Secrets Are What We Got Now"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All the Actors Who Turned Down Brokeback Mountain<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I was working on it, and I felt like we needed a really strong cast, like a famous cast,” Van Sant told Indiewire in 2018. “That wasn’t working out. I asked the usual suspects: Leonardo DiCaprio<\/strong>, Brad Pitt<\/strong>, Matt Damon<\/strong>, Ryan Phillippe<\/strong>. They all said no.”<\/p>\n

In hindsight, he wasn’t sure why he was so stuck on casting big stars, concluding he was “not ready” to helm the movie at the time.<\/p>\n

“There was something off with myself, I guess,” he said, “whatever was going on.”<\/p>\n

Mark Wahlberg<\/strong> later had a meeting with Lee, but told WENN in 2007, per the Advocate, that he got “a little creeped out” by the 15 pages of the script that he read.<\/p>\n

“I told Ang Lee, ‘I like you, you’re a talented guy, if you want to talk about it more…'” he recalled. “Thankfully, he didn’t…I didn’t rush to see Brokeback<\/em>, it’s just not my deal… Obviously, it was done in taste—look how it was received.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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These Brokeback Mountain Secrets Are What We Got Now<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All the Actors Who Turned Down Brokeback Mountain “I was working on it, and I felt like we needed a really strong cast, like a famous cast,” Van Sant told Indiewire in 2018. “That wasn’t working out. I asked the usual suspects: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Ryan Phillippe. They all said no.” In hindsight, he wasn’t sure…<\/p>\n

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