It is comforting to see that even well-known performers and even Oscar winners can completely botch an audition every once in a while. In all honesty, who among us hasn't shown up to an interview under alcohol? Or decided to remove all of their clothing amid a critical question and answer session?
Let's have this teeny-tiny bit of relatability, or at the very least, have some compassion for the actor who obviously had no idea what a wolverine was. And below is the list of the 11 movie auditions
celebrities never want to remember.
1. Hugh Jackman
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“Hugh Jackman prepared for his Wolverine audition by studying wolves. Jackman didn't know what a wolverine was, So he added wolf-like movements and characteristics to his performance. Bryan Singer had to explain that wolverines were real
animals and that it was more of a metaphorical idea regarding the character.
2. Tom Holland
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“Tom Holland botched his Star Wars audition because he couldn't stop laughing at the droid. Holland was up for the part of Finn, but it all ended when he had to act opposite a woman playing a droid. "So I was doing all this, like, 'We gotta get back to the ship!' And she was going. "Bleep, bloop, bloop, bleep, bloop,' I just couldn't stop laughing. I found it funny"
3. George Clooney
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George Clooney auditioned for a drunk character by getting hammered. Clooney got too real when he auditioned to play a drunk in Bram Stoker's Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. After his audition, Coppola phoned Clooney's agent, shocked that the actor came to the audition totally wasted.
4. Kevin Hart
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Kevin Hart auditioned for SNL by doing a character impersonation of someone nobody knew. Hart played former San Antonio Spurs point guard Avery Johnson, and it was clear to him that Lorne Michaels had no idea who that was.
5. Nicholas Hoult
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Nicholas Hoult didn't know he had to do a Hispanic accent for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian. During his audition, they asked if he could do it in an accent like Puss in Boots in Shrek. I was doing the scene, but in my head, before saying each line, I was trying to do my Antonio Banderas impression, saying (in a Despaeroda voice), 'I am Price Caspian!' It was horrendous. It sounded more like Borat.
6. Jake Gyllenhaal
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No one told Jake Gyllenhaal he was supposed to prepare an accent for his Lord of the Rings audition. Gyllenhaal had no idea what he was supposed to do for the audition. Peter Jackson literally turned to me and said, 'You are the worst actor I've ever seen. Did anyone tell you that you're supposed to have an accent? I was like, 'No.' And he was like, 'Well. Fire your agents'
7. Charlie Cox
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Charlie Cox auditioned for a part acting blind. The Daredevil actor seemed to have become So used to playing the blind character that he audited for a (speculated) role in Solo: A Star Wars Movie by acting blind. Halfway through it, the casting director stopped me and said, 'Why director stopped me and said, Why aren't you looking at me?' I realized I had gotten into a habit of not making eye contact because the only thing I had done for two years was playing someone who is blind.'
8. Chris Evans
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Chris Evans was a ball of nerves auditioning for Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone. When Evans arrived at the audition and saw Affleck, he was instantly starstruck. The first thing I said was, "Hey... am I gonna be okay where I parked?’ And he said, 'Where'd you park?' And I said, 'At one of the meters.' And he replied, ' Did you put money in it? And I said, 'Yeah.' At that moment, I know I'm p*** off!
9. Bradley Cooper
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Bradley Cooper auditioned for The Green Lantern by giving the title character the same voice as Christian Bale's Batman. Cooper said it looked like a bad SNL sketch. I don't know what it was! I put a mask on, and the director said, 'Okay, Bradley, be regular and talk.’ And I was like.. (in a deep Batman voice) 'Listen, Sally, we're going to have to take your family away if you don't listen to me!'
10. Dakota Johnson
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Dakota Johnson once took her shirt off during an audition, even though she didn't have to The actress said it was the most embarrassing audition of her life. "I got really into the scene, and it was dramatic, and I took my shirt off, and then you didn't have to do that. And afterward, they were like, 'Uh, that was great. That was jpg nice,' and I was like, 'Thank you, and had to pick my shirt up off the floor and still talk to them and put it back on. It was inappropriate.
11. Robert Pattinson
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Robert Pattinson pretended to be American for his Transformers 2 audition. As in, he literally tried to sell the filmmakers on him being American, even though they already knew he was English."I always thought that if you say you're English, they judge your American accent……So they were listening to my backstory about being from Denver, and they're like, What is this guy on?