Bruce Willis Passed On Ghost

Before the movie Ghost hit theaters in 1990, Bruce Willis turned down the chance to play Sam Wheat, the role that ultimately went to Patrick Swayze. Willis later told a New York Times reporter in 1996 that he did not think the movie could work because the main character was dead for most of it, and he called himself a “knucklehead” for saying no. Nine years after Ghost, Willis starred in The Sixth Sense (1999) in a thematically similar role.

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