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Alice In Chains<\/a>‘ Jerry Cantrell<\/a> has made a few small cameos in movies before, but there’s a particular film role that he admitted he really regrets turning down.<\/p>\n Cantrell\u00a0and quite a few other Seattle rockers appeared in Cameron Crowe’s 1992 film\u00a0Singles,\u00a0<\/em>including the rest of Alice In Chains as well as members of Pearl Jam<\/a> and Soundgarden<\/a>. The guitarist also had a role in Crowe’s 1996 film\u00a0Jerry Maguire,\u00a0<\/em>which starred Tom Cruise.<\/p>\n But did you know Cantrell was also asked to be in a third film that Crowe directed a few years later? That’s right \u2014\u00a0Almost Famous.<\/i><\/p>\n “He wanted me to be a bass player. One of my biggest regrets is turning Cameron Crowe down for his third consecutive movie,” Cantrell said during a recent episode of\u00a0The Adamantium Podcast.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n “I was in a tough place, and I was also on tour supporting\u00a0Degradation Trip.\u00a0<\/em>But I regret it.”<\/p>\n The rocker recalled that Crowe had written quite a few pages for the fictional bass player, who was “knowledgable” and “uppity.” Actor and musician Mark Kozelek, who plays in the indie rock band Sun Kil Moon, was cast for the role since Cantrell had to pass on it.<\/p>\n “He had the character written where I was a ‘[Paul] McCartney<\/a> is God’ kind of dude, which he fucking is,” Cantrell continued. “In a couple of conversations where bass players would come up, I’d come off the top turn buckle and say, ‘Fuck you, McCartney is a god’.”<\/p>\n