Johnny Depp's career skyrocketed after his role in the 1990 movie Edward Scissorhands. Would you believe that originally the role of the freaky character was going to go to Tom Cruise?!
Oh My! What sort of Edward would have Tom given us? Surely not the same one Depp has!
Johnny Depp is THE perfect actor to play all these freaky Tim Burton characters, no one can do them better!
But at the time, Tom Cruise was an A-lister, while Johnny Depp was just a TV actor! Maybe the producers thought an A-lister would do the movie good ... but they changed their minds and gave the role to Depp instead. Which, no doubt, was a great decision! It was then that the relationship between Depp and Burton started, and we all know what the yielded.

Would you think Tom Cruise would have made a good Edward Scissorhands?