{"id":58135,"date":"2025-08-04T17:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/58135\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T17:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:18:07","slug":"15-actors-that-almost-quit-before-their-big-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/58135\/","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":58136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,15117,88,1757,206,217,43809,92,6703],"class_list":{"0":"post-58135","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-dib-celebs","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-evergreen","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-netflix","14":"tag-the_office","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-tv-shows"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}