Cinescape: Stowe told no to CAPTIVES role. "What happens when you're a Hollywood actress and you can't find the parts you want to play? Madeleine Stowe thought she had found the solution: write a screenplay that the studios want to make and agree to sell it to them if they cast you somewhere in the movie... Under a pseudonym, Stowe and her husband wrote a period western called THE UNBOUND CAPTIVES which attracted the attention of 20th Century Fox. Fox wanted to put it into production immediately, hiring Ridley Scott to director and Russell Crowe to star in the picture...but not Madeleine Stowe." Wow. Here is this talented and beautiful actress with a great property, yet she can't get the role she wanted. And you thought Hollywood changed. Or does her bankability still liable?