Trending badgeTrendingPosted 54 minutes agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret Down29 Literally Gorgeous Actors Who Were Told They Were Too "Ugly" For A Role - Or Even For Hollywood ItselfSorry, someone thought Amy Adams wasn't pretty enough? AMY ADAMS????by Hannah MarderBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLink 1. Kathy Bates has spoken multiple times about struggling to be cast due to her appearance. "I'm not a stunning woman. I never was an ingenue; I've always just been a character actor," she told the New York Times in 1991. "When I was younger it was a real problem, because I was never pretty enough for the roles that other young women were being cast in. The roles I was lucky enough to get were real stretches for me: usually a character who was older, or a little weird, or whatever." Jesse Grant/Variety via Getty Images Specifically, she was passed over for the role of Frankie in the 1991 film Frankie and Johnny. Bates had actually played the role on Broadway in the play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune, which Frankie and Johnny was adapted from - so she seemed like the obvious choice for the role. However, director Garry Marshall doubted that people would see her as a romantic lead. "He couldn't make the leap that people would see me onscreen kissing someone. Me actually kissing a man onscreen - that would not be romantic," Bates said. Michelle Pfeiffer was cast instead. Paramount Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection 2. Kat Dennings was told she was not "pretty enough" when she was literally 12 years old. Speaking about the "cruel" comments she received as a child actor, she recalled, "I'd go into an audition and I'd do it, and my manager would call me and I'd be like, 'How'd it go?' And they'd be like, 'Well, they thought you weren't pretty enough and you're fat.'" Luckily, Dennings ignored them, and she says Hollywood is "much softer, kinder" today. JC Olivera/Variety via Getty Images 3. Gillian Anderson is best known for her iconic role as Scully in The X-Files. However, she almost wasn't cast in the role. Executives at Fox thought Anderson didn't have enough sex appeal. Series creator Chris Carter said, "Even though Gillian's beautiful, she wasn't their idea of sexy. First, because they didn't understand what I was trying to do with the show. And she was an unknown, so that never helps." The network wanted to cast a "bombshell type, ideally someone like Pamela Anderson," according to Carter. Luckily, they went with Anderson instead, and she helped make the show hugely successful. Ken Staniforth / Fox Network / Courtesy Everett Collection 4. Benedict Cumberbatch also almost lost out on one of his most famous roles: Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series Sherlock. Series co-creator Mark Gatiss revealed that higher-ups believed Cumberbatch lacked sex appeal and that his nose was "entirely wrong." They were also concerned that Cumberbatch was an unknown. However, he embodied the role so well that he was cast and proved everyone wrong. "As he walked through into 221B Baker Street it all changed. He was a weird man a few minutes ago, a sort of ginger weird person. But that disappeared," Gatiss said. BBC/Courtesy Everett Collection 5. Today, Lea Michele is a successful Broadway and TV actor, best known for her breakout role as Rachel Berry on Glee. However, there was a time when producers did not think she would make it in Hollywood. "I was always told I was too Jewish-looking for television [and that] I wasn't pretty enough, all of that," she told Jake Shane on his podcast. Carin Baer / Fox Television / Courtesy: Everett Collection She was actually pressured to get a nose job as a teenager. "From a very young age, I must've been maybe only 13 years old, I started being told by managers and agents that in order to make it on television or be on covers of magazines that I was going to have to get a nose job," she recalled. However, she ignored the feedback and was able to make it in Hollywood anyway. Cindy Ord / Getty Images 6. Bella Ramsey was not told explicitly that they were not pretty enough for a role, but they were once told they lost a role because they "didn't have the 'Hollywood look.'" This was in one of their first auditions; luckily, they didn't lose hope, and, of course, went on to be cast in a breakout role in Game of Thrones and later in the massively successful The Last of Us. Gilbert Flores / Variety via Getty Images 7. Judi Dench was once told she would not find success in Hollywood due to her having "every single thing wrong with her face." She recalled, "I didn't become a film star in the '60s and that's because I once went for a film - which I have always kept a secret, and the director a secret too - he said at the end of the interview, 'Jolly nice meeting you but I'm sorry, you won't ever make a film because your face is wrongly arranged.'" The director was wrong; Dench is an Oscar-winning actor with a long, storied career. Stuart C. Wilson / Getty Images for BFI 8. Chris Pin