Sam Rockwell Was Almost ‘Gonna Be a Star’ in ‘Lean on Me,’ but Was Cut (and Still Gets Residuals)
“Hey, I’m gonna be a star.” That was almost Sam Rockwell’s line in “Lean on Me.” The 1989 film which starred Morgan Freeman as the real-life educator Joe Louis Clark. Rockwell was cast in the film, but — as he revealed during a recent appearance on the …