Gillian Anderson turned down the role of Cora Crawley in Downton Abbey.
"If I am going to be spending that amount of time working on something I would rather be working with a director like Martin Scorsese," Anderson said in a bit of subtle shade towards the series. She also reportedly turned down a role in Game of Thrones for the same reason.
In Will Smith's case for example, if someone just described the concept for " Wild, wild west", it sounds pretty amazing. While you could easily interpret "The Matrix" as: "sounds a bit crazy and out there".
I’m sick of him almost being in every movie.