Charlotte, who met the director without having read the script, later found out about a scene where Harkonnen enemy Rabban the Beast “gets his army, the Algerian army, to pull down their pants in front of the [Atreides’] palace and shit. 

“So there’s going to be a scene of 2,000 extras defecating at once,” Pavitch added. “So here’s Charlotte Rampling, she agrees to meet with [Jodorowsky], she gets the script, she reads the script, and she says, ‘I can’t be in a movie where there’s 2,000 extras defecating on screen! I need to be in a movie that people are actually going to see! Who the hell is going to see this movie?’.”

However, Charlotte hasn’t publicly spoken about the scene.

She told IndieWire: “I loved this book, and I loved the character of Jessica. [Jodorowsky] was unable to do it, and the next one was the David Lynch one, which I was not in”.

2. In Pitch Perfect 3, Anna Kendrick refused to let her recently-graduated character Beca kiss new boss Theo

When Anna Kendrick’s character, Beca, leaves college in Pitch Perfect, she joins a record label where she works under music executive Theo.

Speaking to Harper’s Bazaar UK about the film, she said: “Originally the music executive was supposed to be my romantic interest, but I said no to that, because I thought that would be kind of fucking problematic.”