Julia Roberts became the biggest movie star on the planet because of Pretty Woman — but it turns out she came incredibly close to never playing Vivian Ward at all, after 1980s icon Molly Ringwald passed on the role before it ever reached her. Ringwald has no regrets and openly admits that Julia Roberts is what makes the movie — but the thought of a world where that role went to someone else and America never fell in love with that smile is almost impossible to sit with.
