9 Actors Whose Audition Stories That Sound Like A Joke
Anything can happen in the audition: good result or bad one. It can pull any actor down off of their high horse, no matter how famous they get. Ask any actor out there, both famous and not-so-famous, and they will tell you that auditioning is the absolute worst part of their job. Many might not know that it is true that even the hugest and highest-paid actors all started out going to one humiliating audition after another.
For example, Meryl Streep, one of the greatest actresses of all time, had to hear she was too ugly for a role. Years later, she shared the details during an interview and the history went viral. She is not the only actor who had a terrible audition, this happened even worse to others who do something silly.
Below are actors who relive their most humiliating audition stories. You can read these articles to have a fun time: 20+ Times Actors Auditioned For A Different Role But Made Another Iconic, 16 Actors Who Bombed Their Audition, and 14 Movie Stars Could Have Got a Win-Win Role.
In an interview with Buzzfeed, he shared, "[Then] someone came into the room as I was halfway through the story and I was like, I can't pull out now, I can't just stop telling the story, that would be a coward's way out. So I took a chance and I was continuing telling it. I got to the end and I was looking at him [the person who had come into the room], and I was like, 'The person I'm talking about is a very good friend of yours, isn’t he?' And he said, 'Yeah.' And then I had to do an audition with him."
For example, Meryl Streep, one of the greatest actresses of all time, had to hear she was too ugly for a role. Years later, she shared the details during an interview and the history went viral. She is not the only actor who had a terrible audition, this happened even worse to others who do something silly.
Below are actors who relive their most humiliating audition stories. You can read these articles to have a fun time: 20+ Times Actors Auditioned For A Different Role But Made Another Iconic, 16 Actors Who Bombed Their Audition, and 14 Movie Stars Could Have Got a Win-Win Role.
#1 A casting director called Meryl Streep ugly
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#2 Ryan Gosling was the victim of a clueless casting director
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#3 Bill Nighy had to sing 'Smoke On The Water' in Heels
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#4 Emma Stone made up an unforgettable character on the spot
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#5 Daniel Radcliffe's gossiping derailed an audition
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In an interview with Buzzfeed, he shared, "[Then] someone came into the room as I was halfway through the story and I was like, I can't pull out now, I can't just stop telling the story, that would be a coward's way out. So I took a chance and I was continuing telling it. I got to the end and I was looking at him [the person who had come into the room], and I was like, 'The person I'm talking about is a very good friend of yours, isn’t he?' And he said, 'Yeah.' And then I had to do an audition with him."
#6 Peter Jackson called Jake Gyllenhaal "The worst actor he'd ever seen"
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#7 Eddie Redmayne flubbed his 'Star Wars' audition
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#8 January Jones was asked to pole dance... without a pole
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#9 Tom Holland couldn’t stop laughing in his ‘Star Wars’ audition
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