Kristen Stewart drops out of Focus film when Will Smith gets lead role

Uh, ma’am, there’s not much difference between 43 and 40. Is there ANOTHER reason you don’t want to be in this film???

Kristen Stweart Drops Out Of Film After Will Smith Replaces Ben Affleck As Love Interest

Via IndieWire

Will Smith appears to be officially locked into his next project (after this summer’s After Earth, starring his son Jaden Smith); when we last reported on it, he was said to be “in talks” to star in Warner Bros’ con-man film Focus, which previously had Ben Affleck as the top choice to play the role that Will Smith will now play. Affleck had to drop out as other commitments got in the way.

Also, when Affleck was the man for the job, Kristen Stewart was to star opposite him, playing his co-conspirator, as well as love interest, but she left the project when Smith jumped on-board, citing, according to Variety, an age gap between the two of them that was too wide (Will is 44, Stewart is 23). Although, that apparently wasn’t too much of a problem for her, when Ben Affleck, who’s not that much younger than Smith, was the candidate for the role. Affleck is 40.

Via Variety

Kristen Stewart was attached to also star in the pic but when Smith became engaged in the project, Stewart fell off with the feeling that the age difference between the two would be too large a gap.

Now ain’t that about a beyotch? You couldn’t come up with a better reason than that Kristen??

(IndieWire)

Announced this morning, taking over for Stewart in the film, will be Aussie actress Margot Robbie, who is said to be “in talks” for the role.

Robbie is also 23 years old by the way.

Variety says that lots of actresses tested for the part, including Michelle Williams, Jessica Biel, Rose Byrne, Olivia Munn and Margot Robbie, and it came down to Robbie and Munn, with Robbie winning out. She’ll next be seen playing the female lead in Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street.

Written and directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Crazy, Stupid, Love), the Focus story centers on an inexperienced female con artist who teams up with a more seasoned male con artist, and sparks fly as they go about their con-artist ways.

Robbie will play the former, while Will Smith will play the latter.

We can’t imagine a woman white, black, or otherwise that wouldn’t want to bump uglies with The Fresh Prince, enjoy Margot!

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