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PJ Hogan, the director of the 1997 romantic comedy My Best Friend’s Wedding, has reflected on Russell Crowe’s awkward audition for the film.The movie starred Julia Roberts as a woman who realises she is in love with her best friend when he gets engaged to somebody else. While the best friend in question was ultimately played by Dermot Mulroney, Crowe was one of the actors who auditioned for the role.In an excerpt from the book From Hollywood With Love, published in Vulture, the filmmaker said his first choice for the part…

Russell Crowe is denying a claim that his audition to star in My Best Friend’s Wedding went terribly. In fact, he is denying that the audition ever happened at all.The 1997 romantic comedy starred Julia Roberts as a woman who realises she is in love with her best friend when he gets engaged to somebody else. While the best friend in question was ultimately played by Dermot Mulroney, Crowe was one of the actors who auditioned for the role.In an excerpt of the book From Hollywood With Love, published in February, the film’s…

via EON Productions Even though the franchise has been running for 60 years and undergone countless reinventions and evolutions during that time, producer Michael G. Wilson has revealed that every single actor who auditions for the James Bond performs the exact same scene, and it’s one that would never be used in a modern-day 007 adventure. At the recent 60th anniversary celebration hosted by the London’s British Film Institute (per Deadline), Wilson opened up about the casting methodology, and dropped a…

As we all know, one of Ewan McGregor's best performances is playing the young poet Christian in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!. But did you know that Ethan Hawke could have been the one to show off his singing chops and star opposite Nicole Kidman? The Boyhood actor recalls the time he “crushed” his Moulin Rouge! audition before he lost out to Ewan McGregor.Released in 2001, Moulin Rouge! is the star-crossed love story between a young English poet and a cabaret actress. To think that Ethan Hawke could have been part of the…

Stranger Things star Jamie Campbell Bower recalled how he bombed his Harry Potter audition by telling a NSFW joke.Bower rose to fame earlier this year when he starred as the villainous Vecna in the fourth season of Netflix’s hit sci-fi series. During a recent appearance on Josh Horowitz’s Happy Sad Confused podcast, Bower recalled a significant misstep he made in an audition for the 2001 film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.Bower, 33, was a teenager when he met with the film’s producer Chris Columbus. He was…

According to Seth Rogan and Judd Apatow, Jonah Hill “immediately hated” Christopher Mintz-Plasse during the callback audition for Superbad.Hill starred as high schooler Seth, alongside Mintz-Plasse’s nerdy Fogell, in Greg Mottola’s 2007 teen comedy, co-written by Rogan and executive produced by Apatow.In a new interview with Vanity Fair, celebrating the movie’s 15th anniversary, the cast and crew recalled the initial bad blood between the co-stars.“Jonah immediately hated him. He was like, ‘That was f***ing with my…

Diane Keaton has said no one wanted Al Pacino cast in The Godfather.The actor revealed that her co-star was not the first choice to star as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s 1972 film.“Nobody wanted Al Pacino. They didn’t want him to play that part, and I had already been cast,” Keaton told Entertainment Tonight.Keaton played Kay Adams-Corleone in the film, a teacher who falls for Pacino’s character.The actor said she found it “weird” that the movie had not been initially planned around Pacino given that his…

The X Factor UK gave One Direction fans an extended clip of Styles’ audition tape over the weekend, which included a previously unreleased interpretation of Train’s “Hey, Soul Sister.” Only the 28-year-old Harry’s House singer’s song of Stevie Wonder’s “Isn’t She Lovely” reached the final cut when Styles’ audition aired on ITV in 2010. However, according to the full version, Styles, who was 16 at the time, originally sang Train’s 2009 hit before judge Simon Cowell requested him to sing a song without background music.…

Many years ago, there was a mere handful of movies under this Marvel Cinematic Universe banner, and a certain Tom Hiddleston was up for the role of Thor, before the character’s big screen debut. While the Nordic god of thunder eventually became synonymous with Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, the casting process for the role went through some big names, including James Bond actor Daniel Craig, recent Northman star Alexander Skarsgård, and even Liam Hemsworth. One of the many to go for an audition was Tom…

The Kratos combat motion capture (mocap) actor for the new series of God Of War games has shared his over-the-top audition tape for the 2018 game. Stuntman and martial artist Eric Jacobus was one of the Greek god’s mocap actors (alongside the late Shad Gaspard and Kratos performer Christopher Judge), with his new video from July 27 saying Sony Santa Monica brought him in to audition after seeing his “Tekken IRL” series. As part of his audition tape, Jacobus came up with a number of moves for Kratos in advance, which he…