Studio execs are smack dab in the middle of casting for the next upcoming film Speed Racer and are turning down some pretty big names. Rose McGowan was one of them, and it seems this is what happens when you get to know your plastics doc a little too well.

McGowan, 34, has admitted to having plastic surgery for an eye injury related to a car accident. But casting skeptics suspect she has had much more done, and that it cost her the role. “The studio felt like she was hard to recognize and worried that by the time the movie hit theaters, fans might not know who she was,” says our insider.

A car accident? How bad was it? I mean, I have to agree with the casting agents that this girl is not the same looking girl. She well doesn’t look a thing like Paige Matthews from the movie Charmed back in 1998. But, maybe it has to do with age, too? I don’t know how that would affect film marketing. Maybe the casting crew is just too picky. The word is that Zac Efron was also politely turned down.

During his auditions, Zac never connected to the romantic lead in the reading,” says our source. “By the second round, the casting crew didn’t feel he was believable as a leading man hero.” ~ NY Daily News

Not a man hero? Maybe these agents have been living under a big rock for a little while, because in case they didn’t know, every girl in the 13-25 demographic in the freaking country wants this man. But who am I to say?