Julianne Moore Was Fired From 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?' Over A Fake Nose

Melissa McCarthy gave a career-best performance in Can You Ever Forgive Me?, but as it turns out she wasn’t the original choice for the role.
According to Uproxx, Julianne Moore had the role, until she was fired from the project.
I didn’t leave that movie. Nicole [Holofcener] fired me.
We’d been rehearsing and doing pre-production stuff, and I think her idea of what the character was was different than where my idea [was.