Who are some actors who seriously regret turning down iconic movie roles?

 Lots and lots and lots of them.

Once an actor reaches to a point in their career where they have the opportunity to choose between job offers, it comes with the risk that they might turn down the next big thing.

Here are a few of them:

Leonardo DiCaprio was initially asked to star in “Brokeback Mountain” as Ennis Del Mar, but thankfully turned the part down. As we now know, Heath Ledger got cast in the role and was later nominated for an Oscar for his performance. Can you imagine a Brokeback without Ledger?

This one’s gotta hurt. Gwyneth Paltrow turned down playing Rose in the movie “Titanic” and has never revealed her reasons why. I can understand her. In came Kate Winslet and she and Leonardo formed one of the most iconic duos in movie history. The movie became an absolute success and won 11 of their 14 oscar nominations. I’m glad Leo didn’t pass on this movie as well…

Matt Damon had to turn down playing the lead in “Avatar” due to still filming the Bourne movies. Damon has stated that he really wanted to play Jake Sully in Avatar but that it was impossible because of conflicting schedules. Avatar became one of the highest grossing movies of all time.

What are three of Dilip Kumar’s most iconic films?

 The legendary actor Dilip Kumar’s three most iconic films among his several iconic films are:

Devdas:

Dilip Kumar’s acting in this film is considered as one among his best performances. It has been included in the list of Top 25 Must See Bollywood Films. Dilip Kumar's acting is one of the 25 Greatest Performances of the Indian Cinema.

Devdas was released in 1955, Dilip Kumar was in the titular role alongside side Suchitra Sen as Parvathi / Paru and Vyjayanthimala as Chandramukhi. It was directed and produced by Bimal Roy. This film won National Film Award and Dilip Kumar won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor.

Mughal-e-Azam:

It was released in 1960. This film revolves around the love story of Mughal Prince Salim and the court dancer Anarkali. Prithviraj Kapoor, Dilip Kumar and Madhubala were in the leading roles. K. Asif directed and produced the film. The film had broken all box-office records and remained as the highest grossing Indian film for 15 years. It was the most expensive Indian film made until then. It received numerous awards, highly got praised from the audience and the critics for its grand settings and standout performances of the main cast.

Mughal-e-Azam was the first Hindi black and white film which was digitally coloured and the first film which was re-released in theatres. This film is considered as one of the greatest and the most successful films of Bollywood.

In the same year, Dilip Kumar was nominated for 2 Filmfare Awards for two films Mughal-e-Azam and Kohinoor and he won Filmfare for the film Kohinoor.

Shakti :

In this film a great performance was given by Dilip Kumar as DCP Ashwini Kumar, a honest police officer who did the role of a father for Amitabh Bachchan. This is the only film in which the two legendary actors, Dilip Kumar and Amitabh Bachchan starred together.

Shakti was released in 1982. Ramesh Sippy directed the film, Rakhee, Smita Patil were also in the leading roles. Shakti is considered as one of the greatest films of the Indian cinema.

Dilip Kumar’s performance in the film Shakti remains in the viewer's heart, he won Filmfare Award for Best Actor.

Dilip Kumar had given outstanding performances in almost all his films. He did different types of roles as a leading hero and also in character roles. In character roles too he was striking on the screen in front of his fellow actors. His super quality performances are always memorable and they go on impressing the audience. He became the inspiration for several actors and they want to follow the footsteps of Dilip Kumar. Rarely film industries get actors like Dilip Kumar. It's very difficult to chose his 3 most iconic films because his every film looks like an iconic film and his acting in every film is iconic.

Dilip Kumar had acted in 57 films, some of his other iconic films are Andaz in 1949, Daag in 1952, Naya Daur in 1957, Madhumati in 1958, Kohinoor in 1960, Gunga Jumna in 1961, Kranti in 1981 and Karma in 1986.