1. - Jessica Biel, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 2003. Tested for Erin, she was given the teen hitch-hiker committing suicide at the start of the - re-make of the 1974 chiller. Totally unnecessary - indeed, “contemptible, vile, ugly and brutal,” said Chicago critic Roger Ebert

2. - Nikki Reed, Catch .44, 2010. The Happy Town TV find was seen for Kara, one of the three Vegas dead-end girls invited into criminal life by Bruce Willis.

3. - Paula Patton, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, 2010. German and Kristen Kreuk tested as Tom Cruise’s female operative in the $140m actioner.