Rebecca Schaeffer was supposed to audition for Godfather III the day she died? True? Tragic on many

Rebecca Schaeffer Rebecca Schaeffer (My Sister Sam) was scheduled to audition for the role of Mary on the day she was murdered. Actor who got the part: Sofia Coppola

by Anonymousreply 20February 10, 2019 5:28 AM

Winona Ryder was cast in the part but she went to Rehab or something for exhaustion. Coppola had very little time and threw in Sofia.

Don't know where you got this Rebecca Shaffer information but the part was Ryder's

by Anonymousreply 1July 24, 2016 9:19 AM

apparently Schaeffer was auditioning for it the first time around. In the casting sessions that ultimately led to Ryder.

by Anonymousreply 2July 24, 2016 9:32 AM

Johnny Depp sent her oranges for her exhaustion during this period. I shit y'all not.

by Anonymousreply 3July 24, 2016 9:44 AM

Actually Depp flew to Rome to bring her back to the US after her nervous breakdown.

by Anonymousreply 4July 24, 2016 10:00 AM

I don't know what Ryder's deal was but she flew to Italy to do the part and flipped out. There were a few days before they started shooting anything and they asked her to stop by for a costume fitting. She went mental and said that she wasn't supposed to start yet and they promised she wouldn't have to and how very dare they and although they tried to placate her, it devolved into her bailing on the project and Francis hiring his daughter.

Nothing about Rebecca Schaeffer. Maybe she auditioned at some point in the process but not after Ryder had the role. How about you let that poor girl rest in peace and leave her out of your obsessed, ghoulish fascination with dead celebrities.

by Anonymousreply 5July 24, 2016 10:17 AM

[quote]How about you let that poor girl rest in peace and leave her out of your obsessed, ghoulish fascination with dead celebrities.

How about you shove your morally superior control freaky dictatorial opinion up your ass?

by Anonymousreply 6July 24, 2016 10:21 AM

That would have been like Pam Dawber being up for that role. I don't think so.

by Anonymousreply 7July 24, 2016 10:28 AM

This the site I saw it.

Schaeffer was breaking into film at this point.

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by Anonymousreply 8July 24, 2016 10:38 AM

Ah. I see I hit a nerve with emotionally stunted ghoul, R6. Don't worry honey, it's not as though you're going to act on your dark, depraved impulses and obsessions. Well, probably not, anyway.

If anything goes wrong though, call a lawyer right away. I can recommend one...

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by Anonymousreply 9July 24, 2016 10:57 AM

For what it's worth, Rebecca Schaeffer did have an audition for the Mary part in GODFATHER III the day she was killed (July 18, 1989). Her boyfriend at the time, director Brad Siberling, has confirmed it. I don't know why this is so scandalous here or hard to believe. Winona didn't get the role till much later (Madonna wanted it but was deemed too old), and the movie didn't begin production until 1990.

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by Anonymousreply 10February 16, 2018 9:13 PM

According to a police report a friend had mentioned Rebecca Schaeffer getting ready to go to a Richard Marx concert on the day she died.

by Anonymousreply 11February 9, 2019 5:28 PM

Such a tragic loss. She had wonderful hair that signified the 80s.

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by Anonymousreply 12February 9, 2019 5:30 PM

Sofia was miscast as an alluring princess.

by Anonymousreply 13February 9, 2019 5:33 PM

Sofia was miscast due to her horrifyingly bad acting skills.

by Anonymousreply 14February 9, 2019 8:20 PM

Winona would have been terrible too.

by Anonymousreply 15February 10, 2019 2:16 AM

"Winona Ryder was cast in the part but she went to Rehab or something for exhaustion."

"Exhaustion." Yeah, right! She went nuts. She had a drug problem and a mental illness problem and it caught up with her. It was just as well. I think she was really wrong for the part.

The part of Mary Corleone was originally very different from the how it ended up in the movie. The character was originally very Americanized, frisky, rebellious. Laura Giacomo was talked about as a possible replacement for Ryder, but she was passed over in favor of Sofia Coppola, who was not an actress at all, but WAS the daughter of Frances Ford Coppola. As played by Sofia Coppola (who had no ability to act) the character of Mary Corleone was changed into a passive turnip. Coppola said that he wanted to cast someone who looked like she could be the daughter of Al Pacino and Diane Keaton and his daughter certainly fit the bill, which proves what an insane case of nepotism that was. Anyway, casting his talentless daughter was a disaster and ruined the sub-plot concerning the love affair between Mary and her cousin Vincent, the illegitimate son of Sonny Corleone. As someone put it "they have fucked the love story."

I seem to recall hearing that Rebecca Schaeffer was in talks for a possible role in a Godfather movie. If she'd been cast as Mary Corleone I think she certainly would have been better than Sofia Coppola.

by Anonymousreply 16February 10, 2019 2:38 AM

Rebecca was good in Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills. Sofia--well, she's a good director!

by Anonymousreply 17February 10, 2019 2:42 AM

R5 reeks for frau. Go back to Facebook you fat cunt

by Anonymousreply 18February 10, 2019 4:54 AM

"Such a tragic loss. She had wonderful hair that signified the 80s."

It signified the eighties, alright. It was bigger than her head.

by Anonymousreply 19February 10, 2019 5:09 AM

I remember the news reports at the time, and they all mentioned that she was auditioning for the latest Godfather film. She was expecting script pages to be delivered, and the intercom was broken, so when the bell rang, she couldn’t ask who it was. She went downstairs expecting it would be the studio delivery.

by Anonymousreply 20February 10, 2019 5:28 AM

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