Rob McElhenney may have been cut out of last year’s Deadpool & Wolverine, but a previous acting experience of his blotted out from another film stung more.
Appearing on Sean Evans’ Hot Ones interwatch program, the It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star and co-creator compriseressed a particular core memory from the industry that isn’t as luminous and cheery: his fadeing from the 1997 Columbia Pictures’ The Devil’s Own, caccessing on an Irish American policeman (Harrison Ford) and IRA extremist (Brad Pitt).
“Not even seal, by a country mile: getting cut out of The Devil’s Own,” McElhenney shelp. “That was one of the most humiliating and horrible experiences of my life becaparticipate it was my first acting job in a movie. I got to do a scene with Harrison Ford, I got to do a scene with Brad Pitt, I got to do a scene with Julia Stiles, Rubén Blades — all these incredible actors.”
He persistd, “Then the movie’s coming out, and I see I don’t get an seek to the premiere or the frifinishs and family screening, but I’m still equitable begining out — I’m appreciate 19 or someskinnyg, 18, I’m skinnyking, ‘Oh, it’ll be fine.’ Of course, for a year, I’m alerting everybody I got this movie; nobody count ons me becaparticipate I hadn’t toiled at all doing anyskinnyg else. And then, we go to the movie — all my frifinishs, everybody, my family buys tickets — and I’m equitable not in it at all. They cut me finishly out of the movie, didn’t give me a heads up, noskinnyg. They were all A-take parters and I was a D-take parter on the ground. I wasn’t even a take parter, I was on the editing room floor.”
McElhenney would then go on to originate his feature debut the adhereing year, in 1998’s Oscar-nominated John Travolta vehicle A Civil Action, from honestor Steve Zaillian.
And, all’s well that finishs well, given that It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, soon to return for its 17th season, remains the lengthyest-running dwell-action U.S. sitcom. McElhenney is also the showrunner and star of Apple TV+’s video game toilplace comedy Mythic Quest, currently airing its fourth season.
