Charlie Day Turned Down An Audition For Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

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It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia and Horrible Bosses star Charlie Day reveals that he turned down an audition for Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. The film is a unique project in that it encapsulates multiple different infamous artists from the era of the 1960s and re-tells their life stories as imagined alternate realities of what could have been of their fate.

Although the Sony Pictures film explored various affluent figures during the golden era of the '60s, it particularly casts a spotlight on Charles Manson, one of the most well-known criminals and cult leaders in history. Even though Manson is only really featured in the movie as a brief cameo, the strong presence that comes with the character permeates throughout the rest of the film without him even needing to be there physically at all.

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An actor like Day, who is known for his brilliant comedic timing and jokes, is definitely not the first person that comes to my mind when thinking about the deranged Manson. Despite Damon Herriman doing a phenomenal job in playing the role of Manson, it’s hard to not imagine how the movie would have been different had Day not turned down the audition. Day recently revealed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that he ended up turning down the audition because he is such a massive fan of Tarantino's work, and he wanted to be absolutely sure he could do it justice. Day stated, “I’m a bit of a movie nerd, and with the Guillermos, the Quentins, the Paul Thomas Andersons of the world, I adore anything they do. And I don’t miss anything they put out. But there was a side of me that didn’t want to be watching Once Upon A Time In Hollywood - because I