According to Jessica Simpson's recent memoir, she turned down the role that ultimately went to Rachel McAdams in TheNotebook “because they wouldn’t budge on taking out the sex scene”
Photo: James Devaney/GC Images Like many of us, Jessica Simpson has a fraught personal history with The Notebook . For me, it’s the amount of time I spent watching the film’s “bonus features” with dudes in messy college dorm rooms, contemplating who would make the first move. For Simpson, The Notebook has represented a more significant complication of romantic ideals.
In her new memoir, Open Book, the 39-year-old singer reveals that she was up for the part of Allie Hamilton — the lead role that ultimately went to Rachel McAdams — but turned it down “because they wouldn’t budge on taking out the sex scene,” according to the New York Post.
Fate intervened once more, as Simpson was contemplating leaving her then-husband, former 98 Degrees member Nick Lachey, sometime in the early aughts .
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