{"id":280447,"date":"2019-09-24T20:07:39","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T02:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1076698"},"modified":"2019-09-24T20:07:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T02:07:39","slug":"ashton-kutcher-reveals-the-reason-he-was-fired-from-elizabethtown-and-replaced-by-orlando-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/ashton-kutcher-reveals-the-reason-he-was-fired-from-elizabethtown-and-replaced-by-orlando-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashton Kutcher Reveals the Reason He Was Fired From Elizabethtown and Replaced By Orlando Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"41.635714285714\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"25.842857142857\">\n<p>This Hollywood info is hot!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ashton_kutcher\">Ashton Kutcher<\/a><\/strong> is spilling the tea&nbsp;on the fan-favorite movie he almost starred in,<em>&nbsp;Elizabethtown<\/em>. Sitting down with <em>First We Feast<\/em> for their &#8220;Hot Ones&#8221; segment (you know, where celebs answer questions while eating&nbsp;spicy as hell wings), the 41-year-old actor explained the reason why he didn&#8217;t do <strong>Cameron Crowe<\/strong>&#8216;s 2005 film.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;ll say fired, sure,&#8221; <em>The Ranch<\/em> star began, after being asked if he was let go from the project. &#8220;[Cameron] originally wanted <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/orlando_bloom\">Orlando Bloom<\/a><\/strong> for <em>Elizabethtown<\/em> and Orlando Bloom was working on a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ridley_scott\">Ridley Scott<\/a><\/strong> picture, and wasn&#8217;t available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;So I went&nbsp;[to] audition, he cast me and then we started working on it. I think he wanted to see the character rehearsals all the way, and I probably wasn&#8217;t disciplined enough as an actor to get myself to a point where I was able to do that and show it to him in a way that he felt comfortable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"3\">\n<p>Kutcher said he and the writer-director both came to a mutual understanding that things just weren&#8217;t &#8220;working out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019824\/rs_1024x759-190924190507-1024-ashton-kutcher-orlando-bloom.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Ashton Kutcher, Orlando Bloom\" alt=\"Ashton Kutcher, Orlando Bloom\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Jordan Strauss\/Invision\/AP\/Shutterstock; John Salangsang\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.576197387518\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"17.593613933237\">\n<p>&#8220;At a certain point we just kind of agreed that it wasn&#8217;t working out. More him than me,&#8221; he said, trying to hold back the tears&nbsp;after eating some&nbsp;spicy wings. &#8220;But also, I found out at the same time that Orlando Bloom had just become available right when he was gonnna let me go.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And as they say, the rest is history. The beloved rom-com starred the 42-year-old <em>Carnival Row<\/em> actor and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kirsten_dunst\">Kirsten Dunst<\/a><\/strong> as the main leads. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/susan_sarandon\">Susan Sarandon<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/alec_baldwin\">Alec Baldwin<\/a><\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jessica_biel\">Jessica Biel<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Judy Greer<\/strong> and&nbsp;many other A-listers also appeared in the film.<\/p>\n<p>While&nbsp;the &#8220;Hot Ones&#8221; episode featuring Ashton isn&#8217;t out just yet (it hits YouTube on Sept. 26), you can watch a sneak peek of his segment in our video above!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! News<\/em> every weeknight at 7, only on E!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1076698\/ashton-kutcher-reveals-the-reason-he-was-fired-from-elizabethtown-and-replaced-by-orlando-bloom?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Hollywood info is hot! Ashton Kutcher is spilling the tea&nbsp;on the fan-favorite movie he almost starred in,&nbsp;Elizabethtown. Sitting down with First We Feast for their &#8220;Hot Ones&#8221; segment (you know, where celebs answer questions while eating&nbsp;spicy as hell wings), the 41-year-old actor explained the reason why he didn&#8217;t do Cameron Crowe&#8216;s 2005 film. &#8220;Yeah, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-21 06:28:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}