Shirley MacLaine nearly starred in Breakfast at Tiffany’s — and still has “never” seen the 1961 rom-com. In the Terms of Endearment star’s new book The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from This Marvelous Lifetime,

While the part eventually went to Audrey Hepburn, Shirley has now shed light on her decision to turn the offer down in the pages of her latest memoir, The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from this Marvelous Lifetime.

Hepburn would go on to score an Oscar nomination for Breakfast at Tiffany's. And ironically enough, she and MacLaine would costar in MacLaine's follow-up to The Apartment and Hepburn's very next film, 1961's The Children's Hour. In the book, MacLaine says she "adored" working with Hepburn.