{"id":415890,"date":"2026-05-07T07:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415890\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T07:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:50:15","slug":"17-famous-people-share-horrible-reasons-they-lost-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/415890\/","title":{"rendered":"17 Famous People Share Horrible Reasons They Lost Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>      Elle was also was passed over for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/chelseastewart\/elle-fanning-movie-role-lost-social-media-followers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;something big&#8221;<\/a> because she didn&#8217;t have enough Instagram followers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to say what it was, but I didn\u2019t get a part once for something big because \u2014 it might not have just been this reason, but this was the feedback that I heard \u2014 was because I didn\u2019t have enough Instagram followers at the time,\u201d she said on the\u00a0Happy Sad Confused\u00a0podcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elle was also was passed over for &#8220;something big&#8221; because she didn&#8217;t have enough Instagram followers. \u201cI\u2019m not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,14623,156,1604,14507,409,111,139,69,437,6297],"class_list":["post-415890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-dib-celebs","tag-entertainment","tag-evergreen","tag-geekyfb","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv","tag-tv-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=415890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}