Apparently, the former child star was also supposed to be in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, which would've helped keep that momentum going, but he missed out on the role thanks to Johnny Depp.

The “Goonies” star claimed in a new interview that the Oscar nominee got him fired from “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.” An admittedly “bitter” Feldman shared in Wednesday’s ...

While the Gilbert Grape role ended up going to DiCaprio and earned him his first Oscar nomination, Feldman noted elsewhere in the conversation that he’s never seen the film because it’s “sti ...

Corey Feldman was one of the most prominent child actors in the '80's, who described the one role he was fired from that ...

He was in "The Goonies" with Sean Astin, and he apparently was close to taking Astin's "The Lord of the Rings" job from him. Appearing on Billy Corgan's "The Magnificent Others" podcast, Corey Feldman ...

Additionally, he frequently runs away, which causes Gilbert and his family problems. Being the focal point of Gilbert's universe, he bears a great deal of responsibility for himself. At one point ...

Feldman says he was originally cast in Leonardo DiCaprio's Oscar-nominated role in the 1993 film Corey Feldman says that Johnny Depp cost him a role in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. On the most ...

On a recent episode of The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan podcast, Feldman told the host he was originally cast opposite Johnny Depp in the 1993 film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.

Corey Feldman recently appeared on Billy Corgan’s “Magnificent Others” podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) and claimed that Johnny Depp got him fired off “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape ...