Scott Porter revealed he was within the last 4 for the position of Captain America earlier than shedding out to Chris Evans. He defined, “That was, like, a giant, I’m bent over, sobbing, heaving. Yeah, it was unhealthy. As a result of all these press retailers had put my head on Captain America’s physique and I began to purchase in. I used to be like, ‘I can do that. Oh, no, no. Yeah, I can’t.’” Nonetheless, he has no unwell will, saying that he is watched all Marvel motion pictures since and would not assume anybody else might play the superhero in addition to Evans. Porter additionally revealed that Mike Vogel and Wilson Bethel had been within the prime 4 issues as properly.

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In an interview with InStyle, Jessica Biel shared she auditioned for The Pocket book and appears on the position as one among “these ones that acquired away.” She additional mirrored, “What would my profession have been like if I had the chance to do this film? Clearly, that one wasn’t meant for me.”

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A$AP Rocky revealed in an interview with Selection that he auditioned for the position of Lando Calrissian in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story. “My audition was trash. I used to be trash that day,” he recalled, earlier than saying Donald Glover — who acquired the half — “was a means higher Lando than I’d’ve supplied at the moment. And I feel he regarded a bit of extra like [OG Lando Billy Dee Williams] than me.”

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Lucy Hale revealed throughout BuzzFeed’s Pet Interview that she auditioned for the lead position in Hannah Montana, which finally went to Miley Cyrus, as a young person. “After I nonetheless lived in Tennessee and I used to be 14 on the time, so this is able to have been … 21 years in the past, and it was a pair years earlier than that they had solid Miley in it,” Hale recalled. “I bear in mind the audition. It was a taped audition in Tennessee. It was the audition that made me need to be an actress. I do not forget that vividly. It was very, very cool.”

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On Reside with Kelly and Mark, James Marsden revealed his failed audition for Saturday Evening Reside. The present had a nationwide expertise search, and Marsden auditioned along with his peer from drama class. He defined, “It wasn’t even one thing like, ‘Create an attention-grabbing character,’ or no matter. It was like, ‘Do no matter foolish factor you need to do.’ I don’t know why we selected to do that, however we clucked like chickens and simply walked round one another.” The Golden Globe nominated actor did not get a callback, describing his rooster act as a “unhealthy alternative.” He then defined it was a dream of his to be an SNL solid member, and he can be right down to host someday.

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Austin Butler reveals he auditioned to be within the 2012 Starvation Video games film, throughout a BuzzFeed Celeb video the actor recalled his audition to play Peeta, “I do not even assume I acquired a callback for the character Peeta.”

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Chris Pine confirmed a narrative from The OC casting director that he misplaced out on the position of Ryan Atwood as a result of his pimples. “I had terrible pores and skin as a young person, after which after school, my pores and skin began breaking out once more. I used to be going out for ‘The O.C.,’ which is a teenage melodrama. I can perceive that they needed to have fairly folks doing fairly issues, and unhealthy pimples will not be a a key [asset],” he stated on the Joyful Unhappy Confused podcast. He additionally stated he wasn’t thrilled the casting director informed the story in Welcome to the OC e-book, including, “It is no enjoyable having unhealthy pores and skin… it was one of the crucial traumatic factors of my life, however it’s my story, man.”

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Cole Sprouse recalled his failed audition with twin brother Dylan to play Factor One and Factor Two for The Cat within the Hat whereas talking with Males’s Well being. “We confirmed as much as this dance studio, and our mother had put us in these silly Factor One and Factor Two outfits to attempt to get the gig, and it was horrible,” he stated, including the one path that they had was to go “insane.” He continued, “You inform two 7-year-olds to go wild, and so they’ll go wild, we broke a mirror on one of many partitions of the dance studio after which by some means ended up in a full-on fistfight, completely unprompted. Evidently, we didn’t get the half.”

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Robert Downey Jr. reveals he pitched himself to play Scarecrow in Batman Begins. Throughout a Q&A for an Oppenheimer screener, the actor opened up, “I’m fairly positive that I heard like, ‘There’s this position, Scarecrow,’ and I used to be like, ‘psh, I’m Scarecrow,’” he continued, “I bear in mind assembly for tea, and I used to be like, ‘He doesn’t appear to be he’s actually leaning in on this interview.’ And he was well mannered and all that, however I imply, you realize, you may inform when somebody is form of like, ‘It’s not gonna go your means.’”

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Jamie Campbell Bower reveals how he failed his audition for Harry Potter, throughout an episode of the Joyful Unhappy Confused podcast he opened up, “They got here to my college to search for potential Potters or potential solid members and pulled me out of a bunch of individuals. So I went to go to the audition.” He continued, “I went to go meet Chris Columbus [director] in London for the primary Harry Potter, and so they’d requested us to arrange a joke. I had simply heard this joke a couple of fairy, like the rationale why the fairy sits on prime of the Christmas tree. It’s a very soiled joke as a result of it’s a Christmas tree up anyone’s backside, and I informed this joke within the audition. I used to be like, ‘Effectively, f-cked that up. Time to maneuver on.”

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Josh Peck revealed he auditioned to play Edward Cullen within the Twilight movies. On an episode of his Good Guys podcast, he claimed, “I bear in mind it’s like 2006-7, they’re like, ‘Audition for this film Twilight, it is based mostly on a e-book, it should be nice,” He added, “I ship in my tape… [for] Edward. A month later, I am with my supervisor, he goes, ‘It is right down to you and three guys. You’re shut.’ I am like, ‘Actually?’ I hadn’t even had a tummy tuck but, I am like there is not any means, he is acquired to be so shirtless. It’s not going to occur.” The position, in fact, went to Robert Pattinson.

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Aubrey Plaza says she “blew it” when she auditioned for Deadpool 2 position. In an interview with Cosmopolitan, she remembers, “I’d simply come off a airplane and I feel I used to be taking pictures Legion on the time, I used to be actually not in an excellent zone as a result of auditioning — you need to be in an auditioning zone and I used to be in a piece zone. That one harm. Me and Ryan Reynolds, what might go unsuitable? We might be so nice collectively, however [I] blew it.”

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The casting director for American Horror Story reveals Margot Robbie auditioned for the second season of the present, “Asylum.” In an interview with Backstage the director opened up, revealing: “Margot has loads of ‘it’ elements, That’s the robust factor for casting administrators who aren’t within the room [anymore] with actors. Margot might be one among my favourite auditions of all time, and it was proper earlier than she broke out. She was such a star. It was loopy, her star attraction when she walked within the room. Regardless that she didn’t get that position, that was a kind of issues as a casting director the place you go: It is a star, what will we do along with her? Instantly, although, she was out of our realm of chance of hiring. However that’s actually the enjoyable a part of casting, is seeing the folks whose careers are simply rising.”

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Adam Brody revealed on the Simply For Selection podcast that he auditioned for the position of Peter Quill/Star-Lord within the 2014 Marvel movie, Guardians of the Galaxy. “I needed that one,” he stated. Whereas the half finally went to Chris Pratt, Brody solely had good issues to say about Pratt’s casting, calling the actor a “higher match” for the MCU character. “He’s larger, stronger, however tonally, I actually dug it,” Brody stated.

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Jennifer Lawrence revealed she auditioned to be within the Twilight collection whereas showing on The Rewatchables. The Starvation Video games actress shared, “I auditioned for Twilight, they turned me down instantly. I did not even get a callback, however my life would have been completely totally different.” Nonetheless, she stated how she dealt with her profession can be much like her post-Starvation Video games initiatives, saying, “I’ve to churn out motion pictures in between in order that I am not solely recognized for this franchise. I used to be nonetheless in a franchise, so I used to be nonetheless making an attempt to counteract the franchise-ness, and I’d nonetheless be doing that if I used to be in Twilight.”

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Dove Cameron has revealed she auditioned for the position of Glinda within the upcoming “Depraved” film. Whereas talking to TheWrap, the 27-year-old shared, “I positively went out for it. I do know that for everyone who did exit for it, it was a really lengthy course of. It was one of many longer processes I’ve been part of.” Though Ariana Grande was finally solid as Glinda, Cameron stated she’s “actually, actually excited” to see the movie and thinks Grande is “gonna kill it.”

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Rosie Perez remembers her failed audition for the position of ‘Trinity’ in The Matrix, which finally went to Carrie-Ann Moss. In an interview with Selection the star opened up saying: “I used to be horrible. As I used to be strolling out, I used to be like, ‘I do know I didn’t get the job. I actually sucked,’ and the Wachowskis had been like, ‘No,’ and the casting director was making an attempt to not chortle,” she continued, “After which lastly I checked out her and I am going, ‘I actually sucked,’ and he or she simply burst out laughing. All of us had been laughing. I simply gave the Wachowskis a hug and I stated, ‘Effectively, good luck with this.’”

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Patricia Arquette informed Selection she bombed an audition for Jerry Maguire. “Everybody was saying, ‘Oh, that is only a formality, you are gonna learn with Tom Cruise for ‘Jerry Maguire,’ however that is your half, you bought it,’ and I blew it,” she recalled. Renee Zellweger landed the position as an alternative, with Patricia including, “I really assume she was higher for it, and he or she was nice.”

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Chase Stokes opens up about his failed audition for Steve Harrington in Stranger Issues. In an interview with Entry Hollywood the Outer Banks star revealed: “I forgot all of the strains and completely effed up, I drove eight hours from Atlanta again to Orlando regretting each second of my life on that.”

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Penn Badgley remembers auditioning for Aaron Paul’s half in Breaking Dangerous, referring to it as “the one which acquired away,” throughout an interview with Buzzfeed, the actor revealed: “One I acquired shut on was Breaking Dangerous, it was between me and Aaron Paul, we examined. And really, that was the most effective tv script I would learn at that time. That was the one which acquired away.”

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In a latest interview with Sirius XM, Noah Centineo opens up about a few of the failed auditions he is had up to now. The Fosters alum stated he auditioned for the position of Austin in Disney’s Austin and Ally, which was finally given to Ross Lynch. Centineo additionally revealed he went for the lead position in The Maze Runner, which was given to Dylan O’Brien, along with shedding a number of roles in Netflix collection 13 Causes Why and Teen Wolf. The actor goes on to disclose how he handles the rejection, saying: “It’s not likely an actual, I don’t actually take it as rejection. I feel that’s the unsuitable means to consider it. I feel the proper means to consider it’s I’m auditioning for a job. I’m bringing all the things I presumably can to it. In the event that they’re not okay with that, that’s positive.”

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Joe Jonas revealed he auditioned for The Wonderful Spider-Man. “I bear in mind years in the past I used to be up for Spider-Man and I used to be so, so excited and it was the yr Andrew Garfield acquired it. Clearly, he was the proper one. I do not forget that was a giant factor on the time, going again for callbacks and the director [Marc Webb] was once a music video director. So I used to be like, ‘I acquired an in right here.’”

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Taylor Swift regarded again on her failed audition for Les Misérables whereas showing on The Graham Norton Present. “Principally, I used to be up for 2 roles. I had the look of Cosette and the vary, vocally, of Eponine. So it was established I used to be there for an excellent time however not for a very long time—I wasn’t going to get the position,” she stated, including that she was requested to do a display take a look at with Eddie Redmayne anyway. “After I acquired there they put me in full nineteenth Century road urchin costume and informed me they had been going to color my tooth brown and I used to be like, ‘You will do this after I meet Eddie Redmayne proper?’ However no, they made me appear to be demise and it grew to become a nightmare. After I met Eddie I did not open my mouth to talk!”

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Hugh Jackman revealed he misplaced out on a job in Miss Congeniality whereas talking with Selection. Of a studying reverse Sandra Bullock, he recalled pondering, “Holy s—! She’s superb! And so fast and quick. I am not even vaguely in control right here.” He added, “I used to be pedaling as quick as I might, however I did not know the script properly sufficient. I used to be impressed that she was in there. I did not count on her to be in there.” He misplaced the position to Benjamin Bratt, including, “That is humiliating, when your agent says, ‘I don’t need you to get this job, however simply go get it.’ And you then don’t get it.”

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Dylan McDermott reveals he auditioned for the position of Mandy Patinkin in The Princess Bride, in an interview with Sirius XM McDermott admits, “I used to be up for the Mandy Patinkin position. It was very shut. I used to be younger… however that audition opened the doorways to many different issues. I feel I acquired within the line of fireplace due to it, however all of a sudden simply I used to be off of it, however I used to be, trigger it was the identical casting administrators, uh, that opened loads of doorways, however I actually cherished that film and I, I had this complete, full blown character able to go, however Mandy was unbelievable in it, however I feel that that form of sticks in me someplace.”

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Zoey Deutch opens up about how she auditioned to play Katniss Everdeen within the Starvation Video games franchise, in an episode of Lights Digital camera Barstool the actress revealed, “I screen-tested for Katniss, however knew I did not get it, as a result of within the display take a look at, he was like, ‘Why do not you learn this different half?’ However, yeah, that one was a bit of painful.”

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Lena Dunham opens up about her failed audition for Using In Vehicles With Boys, in an interview with SiriusXM she revealed, “The one factor I’ll say is I perceive why I didn’t get the position as a result of she requested all the younger actors to say our identify, our peak, the place we had been from and smile. And I stated, ‘I’m Lena. I’m from New York. And I don’t smile on command.’ during which Penny Marshall responded, ‘It is referred to as appearing, honey.’” Dunham continued, “The factor is, it is like, she was proper, like, would you rent an actor who was like, ‘I am sorry, I can’t smile on command’?”

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Chace Crawford stated he was “extraordinarily devastated” after not getting position of Jason Road in ‘Friday Evening Lights.’ Crawford acknowledged that he and his then-roommate Taylor Kitsch each auditioned to be on the collection — and whereas Taylor landed the position of Tim Riggins, Scott Porter wound up getting solid as Jason.

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Andrew Garfield informed Selection he auditioned for the Prince Caspian position within the Chronicles of Narnia movies and believes it got here right down to him and Ben Barnes, who landed the half. After asking his agent why he did not get it, she informed him, “It is as a result of they do not assume you’re good-looking sufficient, Andrew.” He added, “Ben Barnes is a really good-looking, proficient man. So looking back, I’m not sad with the choice and I feel he did a wonderful job.”

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Gabrielle Union tells Corden a couple of failed audition for “The Matrix.” “Everybody and their mom was auditioning for ‘The Matrix’. I went to audition, to me, I wanted to really feel like probably the most highly effective, stunning and superb lady on the earth, so in fact, I needed to channel Janet Jackson,” she stated. “I actually discover the precise outfit from her album cowl. I draw within the rattling mole. I totally dedicated.” “I play Janet the entire time, ready for the audition, in there early. Nobody’s going to cease me… in walks Janet Jackson,” she recalled, “I’m fairly positive there was a restraining order of types.”

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Matt Damon revealed he auditioned twice to play Robin on the “Joyful Unhappy Confused” podcast. First, he audition to play Batman’s sidekick for the unique 1989 Tim Burton movie, however the position was finally minimize from the script. He later auditioned for 1993’s “Batman Endlessly.” Chris O’Donnell already had the half, however they had been haggling over cash,” he exaplined. “The studio was flexing, principally, by flying in two different folks to display take a look at. They needed Chris, however they simply needed him for a value.” O’Donnell landed the position.

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Salma Hayek and Jada Pinkett Smith had been each up for the position of Trinity in “The Matrix.” “We had been one of many 4 finalists for ‘The Matrix,’” stated Hayek on “Crimson Desk Speak.” “We had jumped by means of many hurdles and display testing and plenty of auditions, and so they introduced these stunt coordinators from Asia, and it was the bodily take a look at.” “Now I am versatile. I am agile, however I am lazy,” the she added. “I by no means actually went to the health club and so they stated to me, ‘It’s important to run,’ I am going, ‘To the place?’ ‘Round, you need to run round…’ They by no means referred to as me once more after that day.” Carrie-Anne Moss finally acquired the half.

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Throughout a latest episode of the “Welcome to the OC, Bitches!” podcast, casting director Patrick Rush revealed that Chris Pine was a finalist for the position of Ryan Atwood. “We noticed Chris Pine, he was actually actually actually good however – that is painful. On the time Chris Pine’s pores and skin was actually actually unhealthy and that broke my coronary heart as a result of I used to be a child with pimples. I bear in mind pondering he was so good,” Rush admitted.

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“One Tree Hill’s” Hilarie Burton revealed that her now-husband auditioned for the present years earlier than they met. On the “Drama Queens” podcast Burton stated, ““After I met Jeff, he was like, ‘Oh, I auditioned for that present.’ I’m like, ‘Wait, what?’ My husband, Jeffrey, auditioned for [Craig] Sheffer‘s half.” “He was like, ‘Yeah, you realize, I preferred the entire gritty storage man, that edgy factor,’” she recalled. “Had Jeff proven up in these tight denims that Sheff was carrying, I’d have positively had youngsters earlier!”

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Nicholas Hoult remembers the time he auditioned for “The Chronicles of Narnia. “Considered one of my all-time worst [auditions] was positively Prince Caspian,” he informed EW. “They requested if I might do a Hispanic accent. I used to be like, ‘What would I base that on?’ They had been like, ‘Have you ever seen Shrek? Puss in Boots.’ I used to be doing the scene, however in my head earlier than saying every line, I used to be making an attempt to do my impression, saying [in a Desperado voice] ‘I’m Prince Caspian!’ It was horrendous. It sounded extra like Borat.”

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Henry Cavill talked concerning the time he misplaced the position of James Bond in “On line casino Royale” to Daniel Craig. “I most likely might have ready higher,” he informed “Males’s Well being.” “I bear in mind the director, Martin Campbell, saying, ‘Wanting a bit of chubby there, Henry,’” Cavill recalled. “I didn’t know the way to practice or weight loss program. And I’m glad Martin stated one thing, as a result of I reply properly to fact. It helps me get higher.”

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Chris Evans remembers botching his audition for “Gone Child Gone” after being starstruck by Ben Affleck. “I circled and it was [Ben], and for some cause I immediately was nervous,” he informed “Backstage,” “I went in and shook his hand, and the very first thing I stated was ‘Hey, how ya doing — am I gonna be okay the place I parked?’” “From that second, I simply needed to get the f— out of the room. I simply needed to be anyplace however there,” Evans continued. “It was horrible, an entire catastrophe. So clearly, I didn’t get that job.”

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