Penny Marshall's comedy in 1988, the "big" hit "The Great" had fun, a fantastic premise. A 12-year-old boy named Oshosh (David Moscow) is tired of being treated as a child, feeling that the world is opposed to people in his age group too often. Desperate, Oshoshs visits a carnival and finds a wealth machine of coins/odors/cravings machine called Zoltar. He inserts his money and wants to be "big", just to wake him up in the morning after Tom Hanks' body, who was 32 at the time. Suddenly 20 years older, Oshosha escapes his panic (Mercedes Ruell), who does not recognize him and is forced to enter the adult workforce to survive. The only person who knows his secret is his best friend Billy (Aredard Rezton).

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"Big" was a tour of all involved in his making and continued to be nominated for two awards at the Academy, including the best actor (for Hanks) and the best original scenario (for Gary Ross and Ann Spielberg). The film was made for Medi $ 18 million at the time, but earned a whopping $ 151.7 million back to box office. To put it in perspective, it's more money than The first movie "Die Hard" made her the same year.

Since 1988, various magazines have published retrospectives of Big, so its development is well known. Originally will be Steven Spielberg's film Starring Harrison Ford like Oshosh, but Spielberg has spent the project to work on the "Empire of the Sun" instead. In the end, Marshall came to the boat and the network was thrown to find an adult actor who could play a 12-year-old boy. The role of Oshosh was offered to almost every big star in Hollywood at the time. Warren Beatty was approaching the film, as well as Matthew Modne. Also, Kevin Costner, John Penn, Steve Gutenberg, Johnon Travolta, Effef Bridges, Gary Busi and Andy Garcia all either auditized or were considered for the part, but each of them were rejected for a variety of reasons.

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In an interview with Popeater (Reversed by a digital spy In 2011), Dennis Kwaid confirmed that he too was approaching Big Before the project.

In 1988, Kwaid was already a noticeable film star. He previously appeared in the Oscar-worthy drama "Right Material" in 1983, at the top of playing lead or co-leads in films like "Dreamscape", the underestimated "enemy of the enemy", "The Great Easy" and "Innerspace". It was much demand, which also meant it could be picky about the projects he chose. He admitted that he had turned down "big" so he could take a different job, explaining:

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"I think I refused for something else. (...) Well, I can't remember what it was. I also turned down 'Peggy Sue got married, ' It proved to be a good choice. But it was giving up (Francis Ford) Coppola. "

Kwaid, to prepare a career time frame, starred in "All All American" and the 1988 Remee of "DOA" before playing Jerry Louis in "Great Fire Balls!" In 1989. It is likely that he has refused "big" for one of those films.

In an interview with Peiter, Kwaid said he did not regret declining the role and was happy about the success of the film. He noted that his only regret in his career was not able to work with some of his favorite directors, such as David Lane. This was a change of attitude compared to Quaid for interview in 2002 conducted with Larry Kingwhere he said he really regretted giving up "big". At that time, he didn't even remember why. "Why did I give up the big one?" I forgot.

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No wonder he doesn't remember. After all, in the late 1980s it was successful, but rough time for Kwaid, which was sincere for its dependence on anorexia and cocaine at the time. He began in the 1990s, found religion and continued to act to this day.

Meanwhile, Tom Hanks also seems to work well.