Celebrities Recall Their Worst Audition Stories | U5ZT42V | 2024-02-24 13:08:01
Matt LeBlanc's worst audition ear
It is unimaginable for actors to not have a "worst audition" story after years of making an attempt out for roles — but some stand out more than others.
Matt LeBlanc's worst audition earned him the position of Joey Tribbiani on Friends, one of his most famous characters to this day.
"I keep in mind I had gone in a bunch of occasions and I feel it was on the final callback, I had gone with a pal of mine to run strains," LeBlanc recalled during the highly anticipated Friends reunion, which debuted on HBOMax in Might 2021. "And he stated, 'So the present is about pals and being associates? Just a group of pals?' And I stated, 'Yeah, kinda!' And he was like, 'Properly, we should always go out consuming.' I was like, 'Yeah, that's a good suggestion!'"
Nevertheless, it turned out to not be such a good idea.
"To make an extended story brief, I awakened in the midst of the night time at his condominium and had to go to the toilet," LeBlanc explained. "I acquired up too quick and I can't consider I'm telling this, but I type of blacked out — as you do — and fell face-first into the bathroom, hit my nose on the underside of the bathroom seat, and a huge chunk of meat came off my nose. And I'm wanting in the mirror, it's bleeding, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God. I've to go in for the large callback and [there's] an enormous ugly scab on my nostril.'"
As luck would have it, the co-creator of the present, Marta Kaufmann, found the story behind the damage so true to Joey's character that it scored LeBlanc the position.
Scroll down for more fascinating worst audition tales that actors have shared from their pasts:
The previous Disney star revealed that he and brother Dylan Sprouse had a nightmare audition at 7 years previous for Thing One and Thing Two in the 2003 adaptation of The Cat within the Hat. Cole recalled that the casting director informed the twins to "go wild," to which they obliged.& "You tell two 7-year-olds to go wild, they usually'll go wild," he defined in a February 2024 interview with Men's Well being. "We broke a mirror on one of the partitions of the dance studio after which one way or the other ended up in a full-on fistfight, totally unprompted." Lionel Hahn/Getty Pictures
A decade after its premiere, the "Cardigan" songstress remembered auditioning for the 2012 film adaptation of Les Misérables. "Principally I used to be up for two roles," she recalled on the U.Okay.'s Graham Norton Present in October 2022. "I had the look of Cosette and the vary vocally of Éponine, so it was established I used to be there for a very good time however not for a very long time. I wasn't going to get the position." Auditioning alongside Eddie Redmayne as Marius was a "nightmare" for Swift. "Once I obtained there they put me in full 19th century road urchin costume and informed me they have been going to paint my tooth brown and I was like, 'You'll do this after I meet Eddie Redmayne, right?'" she stated. "They made me appear to be demise. ... Once I met Eddie I didn't open my mouth to speak!" Matt Crossick/PA Photographs/INSTARim/Cowl Pictures
The Australia native revealed that he auditioned for Sandra Bullock's love interest in Miss Congeniality — a task that finally went to Benjamin Bratt. "No one knew X-Males but. I used to be a no one," Jackson advised Selection in October 2022. He explained that he'd been stunned to see Bullock when he walked into the audition. "It was the first time I might tested [with another actor]. I used to be impressed that she was in there. I did not anticipate her to be in there. I'm guessing eight individuals she tested with," he stated. The Biggest Showman star recalled that the Blind Aspect actress was "superb" and that he felt unprepared as compared. "I used to be pedaling as quick as I might, but I did not know the script nicely enough," he advised the outlet. Jackson described the expertise as "humiliating," especially as a result of his agent had informed him to land the position simply so they might use it as a bargaining chip for an additional film he was doing.& Marion Curtis/StarPix for Sony Footage Classics/Shutterstock
The Set It Up actress auditioned for Katniss Everdeen in The Starvation Games franchise, a task that finally went to Jennifer Lawrence. During an August 2022 look on the "Lights Digital camera Barstool" podcast, Dutch revealed that she "knew she did not get" the position after the display check because of a remark made by somebody concerned in the casting course of. "He was like, 'Why don't you learn this other part?' ... Yeah, that one was somewhat painful," she stated. Todd Williamson/JanuaryImages/Shutterstock
Most fans think about the Associates star's cameo in Bruce Springsteen's music video for "Dancing Within the Dark" to be iconic, however she has a way more humiliating memory tied to it. "I went in to [director] Brian De Palma's workplace, he put on the music and stated, 'Will you dance?'" Cox recalled throughout a March 2022 look on The Howard Stern Present. "It was so embarrassing. I feel that's why I obtained it, because I was [nervous] ... I feel that is what they needed, a fan that just couldn't consider it." Although working with The Boss was an "unimaginable" expertise, Cox confessed that she does not like watching the video back. "I imply, God, did you see my dance? It was pathetic," she stated. "I'm not a nasty dancer, however that was horrible. I was so nervous." Ryan Miller/Shutterstock
The Marvel star's worst audition expertise got here because of him feeling starstruck by Ben Affleck. "I walked in and I'm walking down the halls in search of this room, and as I passed a room I heard, 'There he is.' In my head I was like, 'That is Ben,'" he explained to Backstage in September 2011. "I rotated and it was, and for some purpose, I instantly was nervous. I went in and shook his hand, and the very first thing I stated was, 'Hey, how ya doing — am I gonna be okay where I parked?' And he stated, 'The place'd you park?' And I stated, 'At one of the meters.' And he stated, 'Did you set cash in it?' And I stated, 'Yeah.' And he stated, 'I feel you will be all right.' That awkward introduction led Evans' to wrestle the whole time he auditioned for 2007's Gone Baby Gone, directed by Affleck himself.& "From that second, I just needed to get the f--k out of the room. I just needed to be anyplace but there. I sat down with my heart beating out of my chest, I was so mortified that I began this assembly off that means. I started giving him one-word solutions," he shared. Evans added: "They put me in a rocking chair, so I am just rocking and twisting, simply nervous. 'So, what was your last film like?' 'Good.' 'What was it wish to work with Danny Boyle?' 'Good.' I simply needed to get out of there. It was horrible, an entire disaster. So clearly, I didn't get that job." & Rob Latour/Shutterstock
"I had an audition, and I acquired actually into it, acquired really into the scene and it was actually dramatic and I took my shirt off, and you then didn't have to try this," Johnson advised The Hollywood Reporter in November 2012. "After which afterwards, they have been like, 'Uh, that was great. That was really nice,' and I used to be like, 'Thank you,' and had to decide my shirt up off the ground and still speak to them and put it again on. It was inappropriate. And in addition still embarrassing, and I'm extra embarrassed that I just advised that story." Matt Baron/Shutterstock
The Thor star revealed that he virtually didn't get the Marvel position due to audition nerves. "I was intimidated by the director, Kenneth Branagh. To me, he is Shakespeare. My brother, Liam [Hemsworth], was luckier. He was one of the last 5 guys up for the part," Chris explained to W Magazine in January 2014. The Ghostbusters actor tried out again when the casting agents struggled to seek out anyone the primary time round. "My supervisor stated, 'For those who favored Liam, perhaps you will additionally like his older brother.' That point, I used to be pissed off. I did not care about Shakespeare anymore. Swagger obtained me the part," Chris added. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
"I didn't understand that the business was set at a McDonald's drive-thru, so you needed to go up, like, [from the side]," Fey defined throughout a March 2014 clip from The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon. "And I've this massive 'ol scar on my face, which I did not understand was going to be featured prominently in my audition for McDonald's. ... So principally, after a two-and-a-half-hour wait, I received in there and was like ... 'Hello, I am going to have a Huge Mac and my scar may have an orange soda.' And then I simply left, because they weren't going to provide me that." & Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
"That audition was so uncomfortable!" the Pretty Little Liars alum advised Cosmopolitan in August 2014 of auditioning for Fifty Shades of Gray. "It's precisely what you thought it might be: an enormous monologue however very, very sexual. There were some things that I was so embarrassed to be studying out loud, nevertheless it's a type of issues the place you must commit wholeheartedly or you're going to make a fool of your self." Rob Latour/Shutterstock
The actress revealed that it was her personal audition guidelines that led to her worst experience. The Love, Simon star explained on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in October 2014 that she most popular to stick to at least one outfit for a selected position that she was auditioning for. After making it to the fourth spherical in the casting course of, Garner came upon that it was her selection in clothes that made her stand out &- however not in one of the simplest ways. "'We do need to convey Jennifer back, however does she have another garments?'" she recalled the casting agent asking her workforce. David Fisher/Shutterstock
"I keep in mind there [were] a number of stage instructions, so there have been no strains," Gyllenhaal explained to Jimmy Fallon in 2016. "We didn't have any strains to say, really. It was just, like, discovering the ring, you're imagined to open the factor, and there's a hoop there. … I keep in mind I didn't actually do it, as a result of I didn't understand it as a result of there were no strains. So, I walked up, opened it up, and was like, 'Is that good?'" The Lord of the Rings director expressed that the audition wasn't good and even informed the actor to "hearth" his brokers. John Salangsang/BEI/Shutterstock
The Implausible Beasts actor had a less than productive audition for Kylo Ren in 2015's Star Wars: Episode VII &- The Pressure Awakens. "They gave me, like, a Star Trek scene &- or, like, one thing from Delight and Prejudice. It was a type of movies. With movies that prime secret, they don't give you the precise strains," Redmayne advised Uproxx in November 2016. "So they provide you a scene from Satisfaction and Prejudice, but then they inform you you're auditioning for the baddie. In the event you're me, you then put some ridiculous voice on." The Academy Award winner referred to as the second "hilarious," however his strategy wasn't what labored for the casting brokers. "And after, like, 10 photographs [Nina Gold] is like, 'You bought anything?' I used to be like, 'No,'" he shared. & Gregory Pace/Shutterstock
"I used to be by no means an awesome auditioner. However I had one where I needed to sing, and I'm a nervous singer," he informed Taraji P. Henson during a Variety Studios: Actors on Actors interview in November 2016. "I'm a type of people who … you realize whenever you're in the bathe, and you're like, 'That is pretty good?' However once I get out into the actual world, it's identical to my voice turns into a hammer that hits everyone within the face." He continued, "So I did an audition the place I had to sing, and it was fairly dangerous. It's a type of auditions that was so dangerous that I look back and I feel, 'What if that tape surfaces sooner or later? That'll be the demise of me.' Yeah. That was pretty terrible." & Dave Allocca/StarPix/Shutterstock
The Spider-Man: Homecoming actor revealed that his take on Finn from 2015's Star Wars: Episode VII &- The Drive Awakens was not one that he remembers fondly. Holland advised Backstage in February 2021 that he's had "fairly a number of" dangerous auditions through the years. "I've learn the flawed strains at the improper audition earlier than," he stated. His reading for the a part of Finn — which ultimately went to John Boyega — stands out as certainly one of worst. "I keep in mind my audition for Star Wars, I was, like, 4 or 5 auditions in," the British actor informed the outlet. "I keep in mind doing this scene with this woman, bless her, and she or he was just a drone." The audition referred to as for the Cherry star to interact with a robot character. "I was doing all of this, like, 'We gotta get back to the ship!' And she or he was going, 'Bleep, bloop bloop, bleep bloop,'" he stated. "I simply couldn't stop laughing. I found it so funny." Holland admitted that he "felt actually dangerous, as a result of she was making an attempt really arduous to be a convincing android or drone or no matter they're referred to as," but he couldn't include his laughter. He added: "Yeah, I clearly didn't get the part. That wasn't my greatest second." Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock
"My worst audition expertise was once I dressed up as a lady. I assumed I [did] great. The director and producers thought otherwise," the comedian informed Us Weekly in February 2021. & Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock
After an evening of consuming, the Buddies star discovered himself with an obvious face damage that he could not cover throughout his audition for Joey Tribbiani. "'What occurred to your face?'" the actor recalled being requested on the audition through the sitcom's HBOMax reunion in Might 2021 . "And I informed the truth and obtained the job." Matt Baron/Shutterstock
"Yes, I auditioned for Recreation of Thrones. I auditioned for, like, the assistant to the casting director in a small room in New York with just a digital camera on me and them reading the script," Olsen stated on The Hollywood Reporter's "Awards Chatter" podcast in June 2021, revealing she was reading for the part of the Mom of Dragons Khaleesi, which finally went to Emilia Clarke. "I was doing the Khaleesi speech when she comes out of the hearth. It was awful. I didn't get a callback." Matt Baron/Shutterstock
"This perhaps says more about my appearing capacity than I'd wish to, however I went to fairly a number of business auditions where the position is 'man having fun with a celebration,'" the Other Two star informed Web page Six in August 2021. "Making an attempt to dip a chip and being like, 'That is so fun!' in a room that's painted all blue and has carpet all over the place and there's someone who's uninterested in filming actors all day being like, 'Nice, good, OK, yes, the celebration's fun, you're having enjoyable,' and you're just in a room by your self being like, 'Man, I really like this guacamole!'"& Chelsea Lauren/Shutterstock
"I'm not good at auditioning. I'm like, 'Put me in the scene. Don't ask me to audition. Just write it for me,'" the musician advised Variety in February 2022 after auditioning for Ursula in the live-action version of The Little Mermaid. "However, you realize, I'm positive as hell. That has nothing to do with Ursula, however I used to be right down to make Ursula a THOT, shaking ass." The "Fact Hurts" singer recalled later operating into Melissa McCarthy, who received the a part of the Disney villain, whereas at an Adele concert. "She was like, 'Hi, I'm Melissa.' And I was like, 'Hi, I'm Melissa. And I additionally auditioned for Ursula.' And she or he was like, 'Properly, why the hell did I get the half?,' which is a basic Melissa McCarthy thing to say," Lizzo remembered. "After which I was like, 'Woman, as a result of my audition was terrible.' And I say that as Tyler Perry walks by. And I was like, '[I] ruined my possibilities there.'" The Michigan native noted that her audition for the part "wasn't terrible," hinting that it was her comedy that value her the position. "Typically I wish to make jokes. My audition was good. You'll be able to ask Disney. I don't need to speak an excessive amount of about it," she added. "The singing was nice. I'll simply say that." Jordan Strauss/AP/Shutterstock
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