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The other day we brought you news that Uma Thurman declined a role in "Lord of the Rings," a choice she now says was a huge mistake.

But in her storied career of more than two decades, there is one project that trumps even J.R.R. Tolkien's fabled legendarium in Thurman's own personal game of career What if … what if she had gotten to work with Stanley Kubrick?

"I was going to make a film with him -- for a long time I was scheduled to make a film with him," she said of "Wartime Lies," a movie she was signed on to make with Kubrick in the early 90s. "I was contracted to do it and things happened and he shelved the film. He never made the film." Read More...

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