From left: Darlene Cates, Laura Harrington, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mary Kate Schellhardt and Johnny Depp star in a scene from “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?” ©Paramount/Courtesy Everett ...

Feldman spent 10 months in rehab for his heroin addiction. In “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” the coming-of-age drama directed by Lasse Hallström, Depp plays a grocery store clerk who cares ...

"He said I was a junkie and that he didn't work with junkies," Feldman said Depp told producers on the film, later adding, "Who knows what would have happened?" ...

Apparently, the former child star was also supposed to be in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, which would've helped keep that momentum going, but he missed out on the role thanks to Johnny Depp.

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Corey Feldman says that Johnny Depp cost him a role in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. On the most recent episode of Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan’s The Magnificent Others podcast ...

On Billy Corgan’s "The Magnificent Others" podcast, Corey dropped a bombshell, saying he was originally cast as Arnie in 1993's "What’s Eating Gilbert Grape"-- and Depp pushed him out of the ...

Corey Feldman recently appeared on Billy Corgan’s “Magnificent Others” podcast (via Entertainment Weekly) and claimed that Johnny Depp got him fired off “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape ...

Corey Feldman has claimed that Johnny Depp got him ousted from the 1993 film What's Eating Gilbert Grape by allegedly telling producers he was "a junkie". The Goonies star has alleged that he was cast ...

revealing he had been cast in the 1993 drama What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. Feldman said he had secured the role of Arnold “Arnie” Grape, the younger brother of the film’s title character ...