Hollywood legend reveals why she turned down iconic Breakfast at Tiffany’s role

Shirley MacLaine has opened up astir her unthinkable Hollywood career, and the immense roles she fto walk her by.

The histrion is astir known for her scene-stealing efforts successful Steel Magnolias, the Apartment and Terms of Endearment.

Unsurprisingly, the 90-year-old was tapped by movie bosses to play 1 of the astir iconic characters successful cinema history, taking connected Holly Golightly successful the 1961 classic Breakfast astatine Tiffany’s.

While the part yet went to Audrey Hepburn, Shirley has present shed airy connected her determination to crook the connection down successful the pages of her latest memoir, The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from this Marvelous Lifetime.

‘In 1961, they offered maine the relation of Holly Golightly in Breakfast astatine Tiffany’s, but I turned it down due to the fact that I didn’t privation to person to interest astir my value to beryllium capable to deterioration each those outfits and bash each those fittings,’ she recalled, via Entertainment Weekly.

‘I legendarily hated fittings. I besides didn’t deliberation it was a precise bully script.’

‘The producers were precise disappointed,’ she added.

‘At 1 point, though, I did think, I should person done that and stayed thin, but I don’t truly regret it.’

Although Shirley near producers ‘disappointed’, writer Truman Capote – who famously wrote publication the movie is based connected – really has different celebrated look successful caput for Holly.

In fact, helium was adamant that Marilyn Monroe was cleanable for the role, earlier she turned it down and alternatively opted to enactment connected the Misfits, which came retired successful the aforesaid year.

Two years aft Breakfast astatine Tiffany’s, Shirley went connected to prima successful Terms of Endearment alongside Danny DeVito, Jack Nicholson, Jeff Daniels and John Lithgow – the movie she yet won an Oscar for.

She has besides taken location 2 Baftas, an Emmy and six Golden Globes implicit the people of her decades-spanning vocation – and isn’t adjacent adjacent to being done.

Over the past fewer years, she has popped up successful Only Murders successful The Building, American Dreamer and Noelle, and is acceptable to prima successful upcoming flick, People Not Places.

‘It’s a fantastic publication and we are getting acceptable to commencement and volition spot what happens,’ she said of the film.

Discussing her longevity, she precocious told People Magazine of her gratitude that she ‘can support working’.

‘I started my creation grooming astatine property 3 and stopped astatine astir 67,’ she told the outlet. ‘It taught maine discipline, loving music, moving with radical and dealing with pain.’

‘I person my friends and I americium truly healthy.’

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