The '80s icon was set to play Leonardo DiCaprio's character, but per Johnny Depp's request, he was removed from the project.

Apparently, the former child star was also supposed to be in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, which would've helped keep that ...

Corey Feldman claims that Johnny Depp is the reason he lost out on a role in “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.” ...

"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?" ...

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 ...

With first-time screenwriter Peter Hedges working from his own novel, What's Eating Gilbert Grape is the unpunctuated sum of many quirky parts, including some very odd townsfolk, such as a ...

Corey Feldman says he was cast in the role that Leonardo DiCaprio played in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, but was fired thanks ...

Corey Feldman put Johnny Depp on blast for allegedly getting him fired from "What's Eating Gilbert Grape." ...

Corey Feldman claimed he lost out on a role in "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" because of Johnny Depp. The actor was allegedly set to star in Leonardo DiCaprio's role before filming began.

Two years after missing out on Gilbert Grape, Feldman found himself vying with DiCaprio for the role of Jack in Titanic.

"He was cast after I was," Feldman said of Depp, "and apparently whispered into the producers' ear that he wasn't fond of me.