Lea Michele – Michele almost didn’t make it to her Glee audition! “I got into a massive car crash outside of the Fox lot-completely totalling my car,” she recounted. “When I get into the room for my audition, I literally was still pulling pieces of glass out of my hair. They’re like, ‘Are you okay?’ I’m like, ‘I’m fine!'”
Bryan Cranston – the ‘Breaking Bad’ actor went method for one of his early auditions and it did not go well. “I was auditioning for a movie at Paramount. I was 21. It said (the character) was a cocky, self-centred, egotistical brat. I remember wearing cowboy boots and jeans, an open loose shirt,” he said. “The story took place in Texas or something, so I thought, ‘I’m going to go in there and be just this guy.’ I walked in like this and he stands up, holds out his hand and I go, psh. I sat down, kicked my boots up onto his desk and just kind of looked at him. He sat down, looked at my boots and said, ‘Get your boots off of my desk’. And I went, ‘Oh s–t’. Then I went psh. I just scoffed at him again. He goes, ‘Get your boots off my desk’.”
Felicity Huffman – “I was going in for the ingenue, and I put on my dress, and I realised that I just wasn’t quite chesty enough. So I took toilet paper, and I stuffed my bra,” Huffman said. “Then I went in and did a terrible audition, for a movie, with the director and the fancy people in the room, and it just laid there like a dead fish and I was like, ‘Well, thank you so much.’ And I leaned down to get my bag and somehow, the arm of toilet paper-it was God’s joke- came and went out of my dress like that. So I had to pick up my ego and my toilet paper and walk out of the room.”
Chris Evans – the ‘Captain America’ star once had a very awkward audition with Ben Affleck. “I went in and shook his hand, and the first thing I said was, ‘Hey, how ya doing? Am I gonna be OK where I parked?’ And he said, ‘Where’d you park?’ And I said, ‘At one of the metres’. And he said, ‘Did you put money in it?’ And I said, ‘Yes’. And he said, ‘I think you’ll be all right’. From that moment, I just wanted to get the f–k out of the room.”
Drew Barrymore – Barrymore recalled, “Oh my God, I won’t say the movie, but they called me in on a Sunday with a casting assistant. They didn’t think I was worthy enough of even reading with the casting director. They did it in the basement, and it was a scene where I have to do this oral thing with this guy’s hand, and no one was there so I had to do it to myself. It was by far the most humiliating experience. I thought, ‘They think I’m such s–t that I’m here on a Sunday with the assistant, giving myself a finger in the mouth. This is a low point’.”
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau – the ‘Game of Thrones’ star had to act out a toilet scene where he pretended to have explosive diarrhea for his audition for the film ‘The Other Woman’. “And the audition was on Skype,” he told E! News in 2014. “That was funny!”
Jake Gyllenhaal – “I remember auditioning for ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and going in and not being told that I needed a British accent,” the hunk told The Hollywood Reporter. “I really do remember Peter Jackson saying to me, ‘You know that you have to do this in a British accent?’ We heard back it was literally one of the worst auditions.”
Emilia Clarke – the British brunette beauty ended her ‘Game of Thrones’ audition by asking all of the HBO execs if there was anything else she could do, even “make them some tea or something”. “David Benioff suggested I do a dance and so I did,” Clarke admitted. “I don’t know how to do it, but I did the funky chicken. And I kind of morphed into the robot.”