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Of all the cameo players in Elizabeth Banks’ reinterpretation of “Charlie’s Angels” -which opened this past week across the globe – there’s three women, recognized for the series, that we didn’t get to see – and now we know why.
Speaking to The LA Times about how the various existing cameos (which includes a couple of faces from the original “Charlie’s Angels” series) came to be, Banks noted that she did try to lure Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu – the stars of the previous “Charlie’s Angels” films – for appearances, but talks fell apart.
“I’m not going to say what the reason is,” she said. “I considered everything, and I think I ended up exactly in the right places.”
Producer Elizabeth Cantillon hints that there wasn’t enough for the Barrymore, Diaz and Liu to do in the film – so the opportunity to reprise their roles was knocked back.
“We had conversations, not with the girls directly, but with the reps,” Cantillon said. “Just giving them a cameo in the end didn’t seem like enough for them. We didn’t have a lot of time to do anything more elaborate, but I hope if we ever got to make another one we could build them into it.”
