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.

Corey Feldman has claimed he was pushed out of 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape?' because Johnny Depp thought he was a 'junkie'.

"He said I was a junkie and that he didn't work with junkies," Feldman said Depp told producers on the film, later adding, ...

Johnny Depp is in Corey Feldman’s black ... I had turned my life around. “In fact, [I] was trying to help River [Phoenix] at the time,” Feldman continued, referencing his late “Stand ...

Corey Feldman revealed he was almost cast in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape," but lost out on the role to Leonardo DiCaprio. Feldman, now 53, said he's "still bitter" about how everything went down ...

Corey Feldman has nothing but ... cried because I had lost my greatest opponent' Feldman said he would say the same. "Because I've had those personal interactions with you, whether they were ...

Appearing on Billy Corgan's "The Magnificent Others" podcast, Corey Feldman ... just gotten sober," Feldman recalled. "I had just gotten out of rehab. I had turned my life around, and, in fact ...

"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?" By Lexi Carson Corey Feldman is ...

Corey Feldman at Steven Tyler’s Jam for Janie Grammy Awards viewing party on Feb. 2, 2025. Variety via Getty Images “I had just gotten sober. I had just turned my life around,” he insisted.