10 More Excuses Actors Used For Blowing Major Movie Auditions

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00:00According to everyone from eventual gods of mischief to Oscar-winning sensations,

00:05dodgy evil voices simply being too lazy and opting to unleash the most inappropriate jokes

00:11possible were the real reasons they ultimately took themselves out of contention for the following

00:16roles. So I am Gareth here from WhatCulture.com and here are 10 more excuses actors use for

00:22blowing major movie auditions. 10. Tom Hiddleston gets the Pirates of the

00:28Caribbean script just before a night out. While it can be a touch frustrating to have

00:33to suddenly drop everything you're doing and immerse yourself in the world of a character

00:37for hours, the chance to have your life forever changed by one out of nowhere audition is certainly

00:43worth that small sacrifice. That's something eventual Loki star Tom Hiddleston learned the

00:48hard way when some sides for a new little franchise by the name of Pirates of the Caribbean landed on

00:54his lap many moons ago. With the young actor promising his pal that he'd go out for a few

00:59drinks to celebrate them finishing their exams, Hiddleston eventually decided to pack the text

01:04away for the night after only a few hours of prep. Inevitably, the severely hungover and underprepared

01:10performer didn't produce his best work at the 10am audition the next day. And when asked why he didn't

01:16even bother to learn the lines for such a massive opportunity, a naive Hiddleston simply told the casting

01:22director that he only got the script at 5pm the day before. He's since learned that this is no

01:28excuse, the silly boy. You gotta take those opportunities by the balls.

01:339. Bradley Cooper Couldn't Help Turning Into Christian Bale's Batman In His Green Lantern Audition

01:39If it wasn't for an incredible performance from Christian Bale as the legendary Caped Crusader,

01:44Bradley Cooper feels he probably wouldn't have fumbled his chance to play the Green Lantern on the big

01:49screen. Before Ryan Reynolds eventually found himself in the horrendous CGI suit as Hal Jordan,

01:56Cooper read for the part too. And it was during that meeting when the star simply could not help

02:01putting on a Bale Batman voice once he donned the character's mask. Cooper would also reveal on The

02:06Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien that not even being told to speak in a normal voice beforehand could stop

02:12his backed sense from coming out during the scenes. Then after having a quick look at the performance he

02:18just produced on the monitor in the room, a rather embarrassed Cooper soon felt that his audition,

02:23one that looked like a Saturday Night Live sketch in his opinion, wasn't going to be enough to wrestle

02:27the part away from Reynolds, who Cooper admittedly claimed he would have cast if he was directing the

02:32film anyway. 8. Salma Hayek Was Too Lazy For The Matrix

02:37According to Salma Hayek herself, there was just one thing getting in the way of her and a part in the

02:43iconic first Matrix movie. She was lazy. Yep, we can all relate. As the Desperado star would explain

02:50during an appearance on the Red Table Talk Show, after jumping through many hoops in the audition

02:55process, the various ladies competing to appear in the Wachowski's flick as Trinity were put through a

03:00physical test. This consisted of a bunch of stunt coordinators from Asia coming in and putting the

03:06women through their paces. However, despite noting how she was certainly flexible and agile,

03:11Hayek felt that her inability to run around the room once without gasping for air was the main reason

03:17she didn't end up scoring a role in the franchise.

03:197. Jamie Campbell Bower's Dirty Joke Didn't Help Him Land The Harry Potter Part

03:25Jamie Campbell Bower was actually one of the many hopeful youngsters who tried out for the role of

03:31the boy who lived. And after being told to prepare a little joke for his meeting with director Chris

03:36Columbus, this confident lad felt he had just the gag to secure one of the hottest parts in the

03:41business. Bower recalled to the Happy Sad Confused podcast how he had heard a particularly filthy joke

03:47about why a fairy sits on top of a Christmas tree, with that cheeky joke focusing on the fact, you know,

03:53the plant was stuck up the thing's bottom. Sure enough, when it came time to deliver his rude fairy

03:57story, this potential Harry Potter was met with complete and utter silence. And in this future young

04:04Gellert Grindelwald's opinion, it was that crude one-liner that royally effed up his chances of

04:09putting on the legendary spectacles.

04:126. Marc Maron Had No Idea What Was Going On And Didn't Want The Part In His Avatar Audition

04:17When talking on that podcast again, Happy Sad Confused, about his surreal experience meeting with

04:24the legendary director for a part in the then-upcoming follow-ups to the Pandora smash hit Avatar,

04:29Glow star Marc Maron openly noted how the entire thing was ridiculous, and he wasn't exactly excited

04:36about the idea of moving to New Zealand for a few years to shoot. Said audition saw Maron being handed

04:42a top-secret script and being asked to read for the part of Dr. Ian Garvin. Only instead of your typical

04:48sit-down read-through, Maron ended up being thrown into a free zone, as he called it, with a bunch of other

04:53folks flying around him, and reading in parts as he attempted to imagine being on a boat on camera.

04:59Needless to say, Maron admitted to having no sense of character and no idea what was happening.

05:05Unsurprisingly, the absolutely perplexed Maron didn't quite do enough to convince Cameron he was

05:10the man for the job. And while it would have no doubt been tough to turn down the Avatar director if

05:14he did unexpectedly offer him the chance to dive into this epic franchise, Maron was somewhat relieved

05:20when he received a box of cigars after the Terminator and Aliens filmmaker opted not to

05:26cast him. 5. Eddie Redmayne's Ridiculous Scary Voices Ruin His Chances of Being in Star Wars

05:32When he found himself in the middle of an audition for the role of Kylo Ren in the incoming Star Wars

05:38Episode VII The Force Awakens flick, eventual Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne told the Happy Sad Confused

05:44podcast, yep they really do get all the scoops, that he opted to dramatically alter his voice for the

05:49part. But instead of blowing away those in the room with his sinister sounding performance,

05:55this British sensation's many different embarrassing Darth Vader voices eventually resulted in casting

06:02director Nina Gold asking him, you got anything else? He did not. And it was in that moment that

06:08Redmayne likely realised his ill-advised decision to put on a ridiculous baddie voice probably just

06:14cost him one of the biggest parts out there. 4. Aubrey Plaza Went Full Method As The Killer

06:20In Scream With Aubrey Plaza trying to land the part of Ghostface in the popular Scream franchise,

06:26the Parks and Rec actor recalled to Liv Marks how she felt that going full method and dressing up as

06:32an actual murderer for the meeting would give her the best shot at being handed the iconic mask for one

06:37of the flicks. Only the team casting the movie actually wanted an actor you wouldn't expect to be

06:43revealed as the murderer. So Plaza sticking out like an insane sore thumb by intentionally dressing

06:49like a killer and looking terrible and frumpy for the audition, in comparison with the rest of the

06:53glamorous lady she was up against on the day, didn't exactly do her any favours. The role unsurprisingly

07:00went to one of the performers who didn't look like a legitimate slayer in the end, and the actor would

07:04eventually class her call to go full method as a really bad idea.

07:093. Matthew Reese Blew His James Bond Audition With A Terrible Joke

07:13Returning to those times awkward comedy cost folks roles, as Matthew Reese would tell the times,

07:19he was once asked to don a dark suit and read the script for the then incoming Casino Royale flick,

07:25before Daniel Craig was eventually cast as 007. And it was during that meeting for the James Bond role

07:31in the intimidating Broccoli family's office, when the American actor was asked what he'd personally

07:36do differently with the Bond franchise. Immediately wondering whether what he'd just been asked was

07:42actually a trick question, Reese instead refrained from giving a straight answer, and joked that he'd

07:47like to give the iconic agent a limp. And silence. Reese then decided to double down on the joke,

07:54following up with the suggestion of eyepatch. The casting team clearly weren't impressed by this

07:59potential 007's quips on the day, and opted not to hand this nervous joker a license to kill.

08:062. Martin Compton Was Dealing With Extreme Jet Lag Before His Star Trek Meeting

08:11Frustratingly for Line of Duty's Martin Compton, he'd reveal on his Restless Natives podcast that he

08:18actually explicitly requested for some time to get over the jet lag from flying all the way over to Los

08:23Angeles from the UK, before being asked to come in to read for any parts. Things tend to move quite fast

08:29meetings stateside, and Compton likely sensed he wouldn't really be able to do his best work so

08:34soon after a long-haul flight. However, when he touched down in LA at around 8 or 9 at night,

08:40he discovered an email in his inbox telling him that he had an audition for the role of Scotty in

08:45the then-new Star Trek flick The Very Next Day. Not only that, but the actor would also need to learn a

08:51whopping three-page monologue overnight, and he ultimately ended up heading to the wrong address

08:56the day after. A move that made him two hours late. Nightmare.

09:001. Jamie Foxx Got Starstruck Because Of Tom Cruise During His Jerry Maguire Audition

09:05A few years before the pair would produce big-screen magic together in Michael Mann's Collateral,

09:11Jamie Foxx came face-to-face with the movie legend that is Tom Cruise in a Jerry Maguire audition.

09:17And things didn't exactly go smoothly for the future Oscar winner.

09:20On top of attempting to show off to the Top Gun star by boasting about how many houses he had,

09:26Foxx soon found himself getting a little starstruck. Then, after Cruise decided to take a dramatic

09:31pause in the middle of the scene, his anxious scene partner assumed he lost where he was in the script,

09:37and foolishly tried to help him before being awkwardly told it was an intentional choice, Jamie.

09:42Simply put, Foxx never really recovered from the overwhelming feeling of meeting the big-name actor

09:47for the first time, and blames his truly terrible Jerry Maguire audition for the role of Rod Tidwell

09:52on the fact he just could not keep his cool.

09:55And that's our list. Do you have any other excuses actors used for blowing major movie auditions?

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10:15I've been the man who has blown many auditions called Gareth from whatculture.com.

10:19Thank you for checking out this video today. Now go and smash life wherever you are on this

10:24ball of chaos. Bye-bye!

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