Sam Rockwell may not actually be in the 1989 film Lean on Me, but he's still paid for the role he almost had. The Oscar winner recently shared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he, Michael ...

So, they let me go. They didn’t fire me, they just sort of let me go because they were like, ‘We can’t pay him a week for one line.’ And then Michael got it.

In 1989, Morgan Freeman rocked the box office with the release of Lean on Me about a real-life Paterson, NJ principal who turned around a failing high school. The movie is over 36 years old, but ...

Sam Rockwell may not actually be in the 1989 film Lean on Me, but he’s still paid for the role he almost had. The Oscar winner recently shared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he, Michael ...

So, they let me go. They didn’t fire me, they just sort of let me go because they were like, ‘We can’t pay him a week for one line.’ And then Michael got it.