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10. He Almost Played Napoleon

After seeing Nicholson on screen in Easy Rider, Stanley Kubrick approached the young actor about portraying Napoleon in a biopic. The film about the French dictator even got as far a production, however high-level politics at the film’s studio, MGM, derailed the film’s progress. Of course, Kubrick and Nicholson later worked together in 1980’s The Shining.

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