7th Heaven actress Jessica Biel recently did a sad little interview with Elle magazine in which she talked about losing two roles she really, really wanted -- Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises and Fantine in Les Miserables -- to Anne Hathaway. Curses, Hathaway'd again!! Sure one could make the argument that, y'know, Biel might be losing roles for, uh, perhaps more talent-based reasons (she also blamed her beauty), but let's work with the assumption that Jessica Biel is forever being frustrated by Anne Hathaway.
Obviously Hollywood is a hideous pit of avarice and envy, and of course there is a lot of behind-the-scenes shuffling that we never see before a movie is cast, but it's so rare that you actually hear (or read, rather) an actress actually talk about all that bitter regret and disappointment. It's mostly a silent seething. Well, Jessica Biel, god bless her, seethes silently no more! She can't be the only one who harbors jealousy over being passed over and overlooked, so let's speculate about what other actors might be silently seething, and who they're seething about. Obviously everyone here is doing just fine and it's silly to pit them against each other -- they're all rich and successful after all -- but it's a fun thing to do while we sit here in our cubicles.