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Harper's Bazaar

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00:00So that was, like, definitely jarring and bizarre,

00:02but I guess I'm in a red lip doing a cool video,

00:05so it worked out, you know?

00:08♪♪

00:15Tell me about your very first audition

00:17or your worst audition.

00:19When was my first-ever audition?

00:21I should remember that.

00:22I remember six nights, seven days

00:24was one of the best times I had.

00:25I went in there and got along with everybody,

00:27and then I got the part.

00:29But I think I was cut out of that movie.

00:30You just see my shoulder.

00:32So when I get fan mail and people are like,

00:33you were so good in six nights, seven days,

00:35I'm like, mm-hmm, you went to IMBD

00:37and just saw that I was in that movie.

00:39One of my buddies from high school

00:41was saying he was auditioning for this movie

00:44called Ender's Game, and I went with him,

00:46and then it was kind of like extras casting,

00:49and then they made us all read this line,

00:50and it was nightmarish, launchy, keep them to yourself.

00:54And the next thing you know, they gave me the line,

00:56and then I got upgraded to, like, a principal player.

00:59I felt really special.

01:01I find auditions nerve-wracking inherently all the time.

01:08When I start auditioning, I would very quietly

01:12go to the bathroom and mumble this song

01:15called I Believe in You to myself

01:17to try and inspire just some confidence.

01:20Yeah.

01:26The first ever real in-person audition

01:28I went to as an actor, there was no sides or anything.

01:31It was like, so she's a dancer, and then I'm like a dancer.

01:36Okay, I'm just like, but in a nightclub?

01:38I'm like, so fuck, it's a stripper.

01:40And I dressed up at what I thought

01:43was like the sluttiest, like, stripper moment,

01:45but it was not.

01:47I walked in, and there was, like,

01:49a hallway full of, like, body thongs.

01:52I mean, pasties.

01:54I mean, it was not a game.

01:56And so that's when I learned how, like,

01:58the importance of, like, going full on character mode.

02:02You can't just pull up half-ass.

02:05I mean, no pun intended, but yeah.

02:07I don't think I ever once got even remotely close

02:12to booking something via an audition.

02:16Sorry.

02:17Whose phone is that?

02:18Mine, I'm so sorry.

02:19It's okay.

02:20Sorry, sorry, sorry.

02:21It's okay.

02:22But I do remember one.

02:24I did such a horrible job

02:29that the casting agent was like,

02:32When I was a new model,

02:33I had the worst casting experiences.

02:36People don't really respect your time.

02:37I feel like the longest one I've ever waited

02:39was six-plus hours just for, like, a 10-second walk.

02:46Tell me about your most embarrassing audition.

02:48Oh, during my Spider-Man audition with Tom Holland,

02:51I scratched him really badly somehow.

02:54I think I was like,

02:55oh my God, I'm so sorry.

02:55I'm so sorry.

02:56I'm so sorry.

02:57I'm so sorry.

02:58I'm so sorry.

02:59I'm so sorry.

03:00I'm so sorry.

03:01Somehow, I think I was trying to pull his arm

03:04and he was literally bleeding.

03:05That was embarrassing.

03:07Luckily, I still got the job after injuring Spider-Man, so.

03:13One of my only in-person auditions

03:15was for the show I'm currently on.

03:19I was in the audition room

03:21and I was trying to, like, you know,

03:22find community amongst my fellow actresses.

03:25And there was a scene that we were all there to do

03:28where the character had to cry.

03:30And there was a girl in there

03:31and she was fucking tearing it.

03:33And I was just trying to, like, talk to people.

03:35And I don't know that people

03:36were really necessarily trying to talk to me.

03:38And I was like, damn, like, she's really,

03:41she's fucking getting after it.

03:42And I think one of the actresses thought

03:44that maybe I was, like, talking shit in some way.

03:47And she was like, that's my friend Rachel.

03:48She's actually really talented.

03:49And I was like, oh, I'm not trying,

03:50I just, I'm not trying to, sorry.

03:53So that was, like, definitely jarring and bizarre.

03:56But I guess I'm in a red lip doing a cool video.

03:59So it worked out, you know.

04:04I was auditioning over Zoom.

04:06It was for a dramatic role.

04:09And I was pantomiming petting a horse.

04:12And as I was pantomiming petting a horse,

04:16there was an altercation that was happening

04:19outside my house between two people.

04:21This guy was being like,

04:22you'll never fucking touch me again.

04:24And I was, like, acting like I was petting a horse.

04:27And then hearing this guy being like,

04:29get the fuck away from me,

04:30you'll never fucking see my face again.

04:31I got the part, though,

04:32and I made $300 billion in that role, which was awesome.

04:39Oh, that was so much fun, you guys.

04:42Do I say bye?

04:43Do I do something?

04:44Or just leave?

04:45This way?

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