Baby on board: what happens to films when actresses fall pregnant?
Actress Scarlett Johansson is reportedly pregnant and could be as much as five months along, according to gossip sites.
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Actress Scarlett Johansson is reportedly pregnant and could be as much as five months along, according to gossip sites.
The 29-year old actress, who is expecting her first child with fiancé Romain Dauriac, is said to be filming her scenes as Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow in The Avengers: Age Of Ultron on a fast track while she can still fit into the tight black catsuit her character wears. -
In 2011, actress Aishwarya Rai Bachchan lost her role in director Madhur Bhandarkar's Heroine after she announced she was pregnant. She was replaced by Kareena Kapoor amid much acrimony and accusations from Bhandarkar of having hidden her pregnancy from him.
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Actress Halle Berry returned to play Storm in X-Men: Days Of Future Past last year, eight years after X-Men: The Last Stand. But she fell pregnant with son Maceo in the process of scheduling, so the crew had to shoot her scenes before it became apparent. Halle admitted that her role was somewhat impacted because of the pregnancy.
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The script of Julia Roberts' Ocean's Twelve, which released in the year 2004, had to be reworked when the actress found out she was pregnant. A clever script twist had her character Tess impersonate the ‘real Julia Roberts' and was therefore made up to look pregnant with the help of a pillow.
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In 2008, a pregnant Nicole Kidman bailed out of the then-in-process movie The Reader and was replaced by Kate Winslet. Kate was reportedly the first choice for the role when casting began but had to decline because of a scheduling conflict with Revolutionary Road. Destiny, as they say, brought the movie back to her.
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Black and white classic Some Like It Hot (1959) was riddled with controversies from the very beginning. The leading cast – Marilyn Monroe and Tony Curtis – were allegedly having an affair despite being married to other people. When Marilyn fell pregnant during filming, she believed the father was Tony Curtis and not husband Arthur Miller. This story ended in a tragic miscarriage for Marilyn.
