On their way to greatness, the following eight famous people underwent some bizarre audition processes. It doesn't matter how surprising or
funny they are; they all make for fantastic stories.
The vast majority of performers have to attend many auditions before finding any success. Even the most famous people typically have some pretty terrible audition experiences from when they were just starting and trying to make a name for themselves. Most of these anecdotes contain amusing misunderstandings, overzealous behavior, or an encounter that was just plain embarrassing; yet, they are all among the craziest auditions we have ever heard.
1. Drew Barrymore
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Barrymore told The Sun that during one particularly weird audition, she was locked in a basement with a casting assistant and asked to act out a romantic experience with the hand of a man who wasn't present.
"I have to do this oral thing with this guy's hand," she said. In terms of shame, it was unparalleled.
2. Felicity Huffman
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The star of American Crime reflects on her "awful" audition for a little part. Huffman's chest wasn't flat because of all the toilet paper she tucked in her bra, even though the reading was. An additional source of embarrassment for the actress occurred when she bent down to pick up her bag and discovered that toilet paper had popped out of her frock. Hollywood.com was her chosen medium, she revealed.
I picked up my pride and my toilet paper roll and left the room.3. Dakota Johnson
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While auditioning for a certain undisclosed film, Dakota Johnson got so into character that she removed her top on the spur of the moment and without being asked. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Johnson said,
"It's still uncomfortable, and I'm more humiliated that I just told that tale."4. Shia LaBeouf
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Journalists probably should have known better to take LaBeouf seriously than they did when he said he submitted the writer/director of the 2013 drama Nymphomaniac
"...videotapes of my girlfriend and me having sex and that's how I won the job."5. Lea Michele
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Since she had just been in a car accident, she was undoubtedly too shaken up to perform well at her Glee audition.
"I got into a major automobile wreck outside of the Fox lot," the actress recalled, as reported by E News. Michele, however, showed herself to be a true trooper. She made it to the audition later that day, and although she was picking glass out of her hair, she told everyone that everything was alright.
6. Emilia Clarke
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Clarke seems overeager to land the part of Daenerys Targaryen in the hit HBO series Game of Thrones. After offering to make tea for the executives, British actress Emilia Clarke revealed,
"[Co-creator and showrunner], David Benioff recommended I dance...and so I did." "I had no idea what I was doing, but I did the weird chicken. And it was as though I'd become the robot."