Celebrities Share Worst Audition Tales: Matt LeBlanc, Extra

Everyone makes errors! It’s unimaginable for actors to not have a worst audition story after years of making an attempt out for roles — however some stand out greater than others.

Matt LeBlanc‘s worst audition earned him the position of Joey Tribbiani on Pals, certainly one of his most well-known characters to today.

“I bear in mind I had gone in a bunch of instances and I believe it was on the ultimate callback, I had gone with a pal of mine to run strains,” LeBlanc recalled throughout the extremely anticipated Pals reunion, which debuted on HBOMax in Could 2021. “And he stated, ‘So the present is about mates and being mates? Only a group of mates?’ And I stated, ‘Yeah, kinda!’ And he was like, ‘Properly, we should always exit consuming.’ I used to be like, ‘Yeah, that’s a good suggestion!’”

It turned out to not be such a good suggestion, nevertheless.

“To make an extended story quick, I wakened in the midst of the night time at his condominium and needed to go to the lavatory,” LeBlanc defined. “I received up too quick and I can’t imagine I’m telling this, however I sort of blacked out — as you do — and fell face-first into the bathroom, hit my nostril on the underside of the bathroom seat, and an enormous chunk of meat got here off my nostril. And I’m wanting within the mirror, it’s bleeding, and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God. I’ve to go in for the massive callback and [there’s] a giant ugly scab on my nostril.’”

As luck would have it, the creator of the present, Marta Kaufmann, discovered the story behind the harm so true to Joey’s character that it scored LeBlanc the position.

Not all unhealthy auditions ends with an excellent end result, as Jake Gyllenhaal is aware of all too properly.

Throughout a 2016 look on The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon, Gyllenhaal revealed that he initially tried out for Lord of the Rings. The audition befell over “a convention name from, like, 14 brokers” who had been excited concerning the prospect of getting him play Frodo, a task that in the end went to Elijah Wooden.

“They referred to as me up and so they had been like, ‘Oh, guess what!’ And I used to be like, ‘What!’” the Brokeback Mountain actor recalled. “‘… and once they stated they wanted a hobbit, we thought, Jake!’”

Issues went downhill throughout the audition when Gyllenhaal was instructed to solely observe “plenty of stage instructions” — however say “no strains.”

His interpretation of the scene was not what director Peter Jackson was searching for.

“Actually, Peter Jackson was like, [facepalm],” the October Sky star stated, acknowledging that Jackson had some harsh criticism for him on the time. “[He said,] ‘You’re the worst actor that I’ve ever seen. Did anybody let you know you’re imagined to have an accent?’”

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