Do not get your hopes up about seeing Steve Rogers ever once more.
When actors play a task for years and years, they’ll get a little bit bored with it. A lot in order that a few of them have straight-up gone, “Yeah, I am executed with that ceaselessly.”
However different actors miss their character like an previous good friend, and have mentioned publicly that they’d wish to reprise them.
So in case you are questioning which actors would — and would NOT — be all the way down to reprise their roles, listed here are 9 actors who’ve mentioned, “By no means say by no means,” and eight who’ve mentioned, “By no means once more”!
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NEVER SAY NEVER: Just lately, Christian Bale informed ScreenRant that he would contemplate enjoying Batman once more, although two different actors have already performed the position in a number of reboots within the years since The Darkish Knight trilogy ended.
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There’s only one caveat: Christopher Nolan additionally has to return to direct. “I had a pact with Chris Nolan,” Bale mentioned. “We mentioned, ‘Hey, look. Let’s make three movies, if we’re fortunate sufficient to get to do this. After which let’s stroll away. Let’s not linger too lengthy.’ In my thoughts, it might be one thing if Chris Nolan ever mentioned to himself, You already know what, I’ve acquired one other story to inform. And if he wished to inform that story with me, I’d be in.”
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Nonetheless, Bale says he is by no means been approached about doing a fourth movie.
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(In all probability) NEVER AGAIN: Chris Evans performed Captain America for over a decade, together with his character basically dwelling fortunately ever after and rising previous in Avengers: Endgame. He informed Comicbook.com he has no plans to return: “I don’t wish to disappoint anyone, however It was such an excellent run and I’m so proud of it. It’s so valuable to me. It must be good.”
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“The position is Anthony Mackie’s,” he additionally mentioned on the D23 Inside Disney Podcast. “Even if there was a different incarnation, not as Captain America but, you know, for Steve Rogers, even that would feel…I’d be very cautious, just because I love that chapter of my life professionally, personally.”
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“I love what those movies accomplished, and to revisit it and potentially have some weird extension to that legacy would be upsetting if it didn’t land,” Evans continued. “So it would require a near-perfect recipe, and it may just not be in the cards.” He also told Variety “that’s not the case” when they asked if he was returning to the MCU.
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NEVER SAY NEVER: Evans, however, is interested in returning as the Human Torch, telling MTV it’s an “easier sell” than returning as Cap. “Johnny Storm, I feel like he didn’t really get his day,” he said. “I loved that role and, you know, who knows?”
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Evans did, however, acknowledge that Marvel is already developing a Fantastic Four reboot, so it seems that they have other plans.
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NEVER AGAIN: After declining to participate in a third Sex and the City, film based on the proposed storylines for her character, Samantha, Kim Cattrall later revealed she had no plans to ever reprise the character, saying she wasn’t even asked to participate in reboot series And Just Like That…
“It’s a great wisdom to know when enough is enough,” she told Variety. “I also didn’t want to compromise what the show was to me. The way forward seemed clear.” She also said that everything in her went, “I’m done” after the second film, and that she didn’t want to return to a job she did 25 years ago, especially if the characters hadn’t changed.
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“This is exactly what I wished for: to be in different places playing different characters, because I’m a character actress. … [H]ow are you going to progress with these characters? Everything has to grow or it dies. I felt that when the series ended, I thought, That’s smart. We’re not repeating ourselves. And then the movie to end all the loose ends. And then there’s another movie. And then there’s another movie?”
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NEVER SAY NEVER: Andrew Garfield was one of three (even more, if you count animated films) actors to portray Spider-Man on film in the last two decades. Despite vehemently denying that he would appear as the character in Spider-Man: No Way Home…he did.
And after reprising his role in the film, Garfield told Forbes that he’d “definitely” be “open to something if it felt right.” However, he also said, “if there was an opportunity to step back in and tell more of that story, I would have to feel very sure and certain in myself.” He also later told Variety that he had “no plans” to return as Spider-Man, however after all of the lies…nicely, Garfield himself admitted that folks could not consider him.
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NEVER AGAIN: Hugh Jackman dispelled rumors he may pop up as his character Wolverine within the movie Dr. Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity (as Disney as soon as once more owns the rights to the X-Males), telling YouTuber Jake Hamilton that Marvel boss Kevin Feige hadn’t known as him and it was “in all probability … not on the desk” for him to affix the MCU.
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Starring in 2017’s Logan was very a lot Jackman’s swan music for the character. “I assumed, That is it,” he mentioned. “And that actually helped me. It actually helped understanding I used to be going into my final season, that it was my final season, that I made essentially the most of it. And it’s nonetheless a personality I maintain near my coronary heart. However I do know it’s executed.”
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He steered that one other actor may play the character subsequent, which appears doubtless now that the MCU has the rights to the X-Males and has launched the multiverse — AND had Professor X within the Dr. Unusual sequel.
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NEVER SAY NEVER: Talking of the X-Males — now that Disney/Marvel owns the property, Sophie Turner, who performed Jean Gray in a couple of of the movies, would like to reprise the character within the MCU.
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“I don’t even know what the deal is, whether or not Disney needs to proceed on the X-Males journey. I’d all the time be down to return to that character and that forged and that have. We had the most effective time on these films. I’d kill to return,” Turner told Selection.
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NEVER AGAIN: Dave Bautista has performed Drax in quite a few Marvel movies and is ready to look within the upcoming Thor: Love and Thunder, The Guardians of the Galaxy Vacation Particular, and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Nonetheless, after the third Guardians movie, Bautista says, he is executed enjoying Drax.
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“[B]y the time G3 comes out I will be 54 yrs previous for gods sake! im anticipating all the pieces to begin sagging any second now,” Bautista tweeted, including that the character would proceed — simply not performed by him. Nonetheless, James Gunn, the director of all of the Guardians movies, mentioned there was no Drax with out Bautista.
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NEVER SAY NEVER: Tom Hanks has memorably voiced Woody in all 4 Toy Story movies, the final of which was launched in 2019. Nobody has confirmed that one other movie might be occurring, and the movie appeared fairly closing in its ending. Nonetheless, Hanks has mentioned that he would return to the enduring character.
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“Nobody is planning on it, however I wouldn’t be shocked if someplace, two and a half years from now, somebody has this kernel of an concept that might turn into it,” he informed LADbible. ‘Not one of the Toy Story films are in a schedule; they’re not in a pipeline. They don’t say, ‘On this date, we’ll begin work on the following Toy Story film.’ They wait till somebody comes up with a Toy Story concept that’s worthwhile pursuing.”
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“However I feel it’s higher that nobody is anticipating that; I feel there’s a energy in saying, ‘That is so far as we’ve been capable of go and we don’t see anything coming after that,’ as a result of in any other case, it finally ends up being some inorganic method to one thing that has been very, very natural,” he continued.
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NEVER AGAIN: When a Teen Wolf film was introduced this 12 months, virtually all of the forged members from the unique collection have been introduced to return, with one notable exception: Dylan O’Brien, who performed Stiles within the unique collection.
O’Brien known as the choice “tough” in an interview with Selection, saying that “loads went into it” and that “in the end, I simply determined it was left in a very good place for me, and I nonetheless wish to go away it there. I want them nicely, and I’m going to look at it the primary night time it comes out. I hope it fucking kicks ass, however I’m not going to be in it.”
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NEVER SAY NEVER: Within the wake of the Gossip Lady reboot simply 9 years after the unique had wrapped, lots of the stars of the unique have been requested in the event that they’d be making an look. Just about all of them have answered to varied shops, “By no means say by no means.”
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Even Taylor Momsen, who exited the collection by Season 5 to pursue a music profession, informed the Every day Beast, “By no means say by no means,” although she mentioned she did not have any plans to return.
Reboot creator Joshua Safran informed Cosmopolitan the explanation he did not carry again any of the principle forged was that “the viewers would by no means settle for these [new] characters in the event that they have been within the shadow of the unique characters.” He mentioned that if Nate or Blair have been onscreen for a cameo, you’d simply wish to see extra of them and have bother connecting with the brand new characters. Nonetheless, he did say that in the event that they acquired to a second season, he may carry again some unique forged members.
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Now that Season 2 is going on, although, it appears the one primary(-ish) forged member who might be within the season is Georgina.
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NEVER AGAIN: One in all Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s most well-known roles is as Hobbs within the Quick & Livid movies. He is been in 5 of the flicks however has expressed to CNN that there’s “no probability” he’ll seem within the closing installment, Quick 10.
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“My objective all alongside was to finish my wonderful journey with this unimaginable Quick & Livid franchise with gratitude and style. It’s unlucky that this public dialogue has muddied the waters,” Johnson mentioned after costar Vin Diesel publicly requested him to return to the franchise after Johnson had already, he says, made it clear it wasn’t an possibility.
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NEVER SAY NEVER: Viggo Mortensen memorably performed Aragorn within the three Lord of the Rings movies from the early 2000s. And when the prequel guide The Hobbit was tailored into three movies for the display screen, there have been some rumbles of Aragorn returning — since costar Orlando Bloom had returned as Legolas.
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Apparently, Mortensen was even approached to be within the collection whereas it was in its early phases. “I informed [a producer], ‘He’s not within the guide; it’s 60 years earlier than, and he would have been an toddler,” Mortensen informed the Impartial. “He says, ‘Yeah, we will take sure liberties,’ and I mentioned I might look ahead to studying it and that if he’s going to reappear, I’d like to revisit him.” He mentioned he later heard they approached different actors about enjoying Aragorn and in the end determined in opposition to it.
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They nonetheless appeared to take some liberties with age, as Thranduil does ask his son to go see Strider (a reputation Aragorn glided by) within the third movie, and I doubt he is speaking about child Aragorn.
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NEVER AGAIN: Conversely, John Rhys-Davies was not all the way down to return as as Gimli — the character he’d portrayed within the Lord of the Rings trilogy — in The Hobbit movies.
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“I’ve already been requested, and to be trustworthy with you, I would not. I’ve already utterly dominated it out,” Rhys-Davies informed Empire, although he admitted, “There is a sentimental a part of me that might like to be concerned once more,” and mentioned he would play one other character.
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NEVER SAY NEVER: Han Solo has lengthy been a fan favourite within the Star Wars saga, and a brand new actor acquired the chance to play the character made well-known by Harrison Ford in Solo. Within the character’s origin movie, Han was performed by the comparatively unknown actor Alden Ehrenreich.
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Whereas there aren’t any present plans for a sequel, Ehrenreich has mentioned he could be keen to reprise the character ultimately. “It depends upon what it’s,” he informed Esquire. “It depends upon the way it’s executed. It relies upon if it feels innate to the story.”
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It has been rumored prior to now that he could return in a Disney+ collection.
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NEVER AGAIN: Chris Pine performed Steve Trevor in Surprise Lady, performing as a love curiosity for Diana. It appeared that he would solely seem within the one movie, contemplating that his character died close to the tip of the movie, however then he ended up returning in Surprise Lady 1984.
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Nonetheless, Pine has confirmed that Steve will not be returning for Surprise Lady 3 or another movies. “I feel poor Steve is lifeless, however I want all of them the most effective on the third one,” he informed USA At the moment.
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And eventually, NEVER SAY NEVER: Principally, all the principle forged of Harry Potter. Tom Felton, for instance, has said in no unsure phrases that he’d wish to return.
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“If you happen to’re asking me will I dye my hair blonde once more to be Draco, abso-bloody-lutely. Both [him or Lucius]. I will play Draco’s child in the event you really need!” Felton informed Individuals journal in 2021. “Any probability to be a Malfoy once more could be vastly accepted.”
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He additionally mentioned that he felt some possession over the character and that it might be bizarre to see anybody else play him. Aaron Bartz at present performs the position onstage within the Broadway model of Harry Potter and the Cursed Little one, and James Howard performs the position on the West Finish.
Rupert Grint had a *barely* much less enthusiastic however nonetheless optimistic reply, telling Good Morning Britain, “I can’t actually consider a purpose to not,” and that he loves Ron and the HP universe. “It’s an enormous a part of my life,” he mentioned. Nonetheless, he additionally mentioned that he’d solely come again if the opposite forged members did too.
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Daniel Radcliffe informed the New York Instances that enjoying Harry once more is “not one thing I’m actually taken with doing proper now.” Nonetheless, he additionally mentioned, “I’m by no means going to say by no means,” declaring that the principle Star Wars actors (Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, and Harrison Ford) had three or 4 many years earlier than they reprised their equally iconic roles, and he might nonetheless change his thoughts.
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And Emma Watson had an analogous reply to EW Radio, saying, “Ask me in one other 10 years.”
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