{"id":43597,"date":"2025-08-04T16:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/43597\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T16:23:12","slug":"15-actors-that-almost-quit-before-their-big-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/43597\/","title":{"rendered":"15 Actors That Almost Quit Before Their Big Breaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Cavill told Graham Norton in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=umV4DToYRik&amp;ab_channel=TheGrahamNortonShow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">interview<\/a>\u00a0that despite constantly auditioning for lead roles, he kept hearing that producers needed a recognizable name. Feeling stuck, he considered joining the armed forces. But after his name started circulating from a screen test for a James Bond movie, things shifted \u2014 and not long after, he was cast as the lead in Man of Steel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Henry Cavill told Graham Norton in an interview\u00a0that despite constantly auditioning for lead roles, he kept hearing that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,11486,96,402,2839,392,20876,391,3851,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-43597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-dib-celebs","tag-entertainment","tag-evergreen","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-the_office","tag-tv","tag-tv-shows","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}