“Fast forward 10 years and then it was going to be Julianne Moore and Chris O’Dowd and then Nicole Holofcener, the co-screenwriter, fired Julianne Moore two days before they started shooting over creative differences,” Grant continued.
Richard E Grant has claimed Julianne Moore was fired from Can You Ever Forgive Me? because she wanted to wear a fat suit.
Moore was initially meant to play the main character in the film, literary forger Lee Israel, while co-writer Nicole Holofcener was going to direct.
“Julianne Moore wanted to wear a fat suit and a false nose to play Lee Israel and [co-writer] Nicole Holofcener said, ‘You’re not going to do that’,” the Oscar-nominated actor said.