Though he’s obviously gone on to have a long and successful career in Hollywood, the Daily Mail says that Tom Selleck has been haunted for the past 20 years by a role that he decided to turn down.
Tom Selleck has been haunted for the past 20 years by a role that he decided to turn down.
See.
What they’re referring to of course is Indiana Jones in ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’. They say new pictures and footage have been released from the screen test he did in 1981 with Sean Young as Marion Ravenwood. Selleck was offered the part, but Universal wouldn’t let him out of his ‘Magnum P.I.’ contract to do a movie for Paramount, so the role went to Harrison Ford and the character became one of the most popular in the history of movies.
And yes, I know most people already know this, but I’d never seen his screen test before and thought it was cool. It’s also more evidence that George Lucas is a fat titted jackass whose entire career is based on sheer random luck.
I'm not entirely sure why Sean Young is even famous at this point, for the same reason I don't put leaded gas in my car or wear Jordache, but she somehow got invited to the Directors Guild Awards on Saturday night and the only thing that remains clear is that this bitch knows how to party. And now, finally, there's video to prove it. As director Julian Schnabel ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly") began his speech, a drunken Young started to shout insults and heckle him. Nice. The Hollywood Reporter says:
…a clearly moved Schnabel on stage trying to make a speech when in the background you hear, "Get on with it!"
An extremely drunk Sean Young heckled Julian Schnabel the moment he walked on stage to accept his medallion. She was quickly 86'd by security and tried to throw a punch at those ejecting her from the venue. She really ruined Julian's moment and it was kind of sad. He looked into the audience and said "Who said that?" She blurted out something else unintelligible and then he said "Perhaps you'd like to finish my speech," said "thank you very much" and started to step away from the podium.
As part of the damage control, Young checked into rehab yesterday. Which sucks. This bitch is fun. And she's no more rude than the orchestra leader who starts playing and drowning people out when they go over 30 seconds. They should get her to replace him. Instead of pretty music Sean could crawl on to the stage like a cat, then hug the guy and smirk like she's sexy, then interupt him every 5 seconds. "I knew a guy … you look like him … he was all like, ya know, and so 'FUCK YOU' I told him. 'FUUUCKKK YOUUU', I said!" Then she would vomit. Look do you people want viewers or not?
