Bradley Cooper thinks pretending to be Batman cost him the Green Lantern role!
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00:00According to everyone, from eventual gods of mischief to Oscar-winning sensations, dodgy
00:06evil voices simply being too lazy and opting to unleash the most inappropriate jokes possible
00:12were the real reasons they ultimately took themselves out of contention for the following
00:16roles.
00:17So I am Gareth here from WhatCulture.com and here are 10 more excuses actors use for blowing
00:22major movie auditions.
00:2510. Tom Hiddleston Gets the Pirates of the Caribbean Script Just Before a Night Out
00:31While it can be a touch frustrating to have to suddenly drop everything you're doing
00:35and immerse yourself in the world of a character for hours, the chance to have your life forever
00:40changed by one out-of-nowhere audition is certainly worth that small sacrifice.
00:45That's something eventual Loki star Tom Hiddleston learned the hard way, when some
00:49sides for a new little franchise by the name of Pirates of the Caribbean landed on his
00:54lap many moons ago.
00:56With the young actor promising his pal that he'd go out for a few drinks to celebrate
01:00them finishing their exams, Hiddleston eventually decided to pack the text away for the night
01:05after only a few hours of prep.
01:07Inevitably the severely hungover and underprepared performer didn't produce his best work
01:12at the 10am audition the next day, and when asked why he didn't even bother to learn
01:17the 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.
01:27He's since learned that this is no excuse, the silly boy.
01:30You gotta take those opportunities by the balls.
01:339.
01:34Bradley Cooper couldn't help turning into Christian Bale's Batman in his Green Lantern
01:38audition If it wasn't for an incredible performance
01:41from Christian Bale as the legendary Caped Crusader, Bradley Cooper feels he probably
01:46wouldn't have fumbled his chance to play the Green Lantern on the big screen.
01:50Before 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
02:00help putting on a Bale-Batman voice once he'd donned the character's mask.
02:05Cooper would also reveal on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien that not even being told
02:09to speak in a normal voice beforehand could stop his backed sense from coming out during
02:14the scenes.
02:15Then, after having a quick look at the performance he'd just produced on the monitor in the
02:19room, a rather embarrassed Cooper soon felt that his audition – one that looked like
02:24a 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
02:32the film anyway.
02:348.
02:35Salma Hayek was too lazy for The Matrix According to Salma Hayek herself, there was
02:40just one thing getting in the way of her and a part in the iconic first Matrix movie.
02:46She was lazy.
02:49As the Desperado star would explain during an appearance on the Red Table Talk show,
02:53after jumping through many hoops in the audition process, the various ladies competing to appear
02:58in the Wachowski's flick as Trinity were put through a physical test.
03:02This consisted of a bunch of stunt coordinators from Asia coming in and putting the women
03:07through their paces.
03:08However, despite noting how she was certainly flexible and agile, Hayek felt that her inability
03:13to run around the room once without gasping for air was the main reason she didn't end
03:18up scoring a role in the franchise.
03:207.
03:21Jamie Campbell Bower's Dirty Joke Didn't Help Him Land The Harry Potter Part
03:26Jamie Campbell Bower was actually one of the many hopeful youngsters who tried out for
03:30the role of the boy who lived.
03:32And after being told to prepare a little joke for his meeting with director Chris Columbus,
03:37this confident lad felt he had just the gag to secure one of the hottest parts in the
03:41business.
03:42Bower 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
03:52fact, you know, the plant was stuck up the thing's bottom.
03:55Sure enough, when it came time to deliver his rude fairy story, this potential Harry
03:59Potter was met with complete and utter silence.
04:03And in this future young gellert Grindelwald's opinion, it was that crude one-liner that
04:07royally effed up his chances of putting on the legendary spectacles.
04:126.
04:13Marc Maron Had No Idea What Was Going On And Didn't Want The Part In His Avatar Audition
04:18When talking on that podcast again, Happy Sad Confused, about his surreal experience
04:23meeting with the legendary director for a part in the then-upcoming follow-ups to the
04:28Pandora smash hit Avatar, GLOW star Marc Maron openly noted how the entire thing was ridiculous.
04:34And he wasn't exactly excited about the idea of moving to New Zealand for a few years
04:39to shoot.
04:40That audition saw Maron being handed a top-secret script and being asked to read for the part
04:45of Dr. Ian Garvin.
04:47Only instead of your typical sit-down read-through, Maron ended up being thrown into a free zone,
04:52as he called it, with a bunch of other folks flying around him, and reading in parts as
04:56he 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
05:04happening.
05:05Unsurprisingly, the absolutely perplexed Maron didn't quite do enough to convince Cameron
05:09he was the man for the job.
05:11And while it would have no doubt been tough to turn down the Avatar director if he did
05:15unexpectedly offer him the chance to dive into this epic franchise, Maron was somewhat
05:20relieved when he received a box of cigars after the Terminator and Aliens filmmaker
05:25opted not to cast him.
05:275.
05:28Eddie Redmayne's Ridiculous Scary Voices Ruin His Chances of Being in Star Wars
05:33When he found himself in the middle of an audition for the role of Kylo Ren in the incoming
05:37Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens flick, eventual Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne told
05:43the Happy Sad Confused podcast, yep they really do get all the scoops, that he opted to dramatically
05:48alter his voice for the part.
05:50But instead of blowing away those in the room with his sinister sounding performance, this
05:55British sensation's many different embarrassing Darth Vader K-P-A voices eventually resulted
06:02in casting director Nina Gould asking him, you got anything else?
06:06He did not.
06:07And it was in that moment that Redmayne likely realised his ill-advised decision to put on
06:11a ridiculous baddie voice probably just cost him one of the biggest parts out there.
06:164.
06:17Aubrey Plaza Went Full Method As The Killer In Scream
06:22With 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
06:32up as an actual murderer for the meeting, would give her the best shot at being handed
06:36the iconic mask for one of the flicks.
06:39Only the team casting the movie actually wanted an actor you wouldn't expect to be revealed
06:43as the murderer.
06:44So Plaza sticking out like an insane sore thumb by intentionally dressing like a killer
06:49and looking terrible and frumpy for the audition, in comparison with the rest of the glamorous
06:54lady she was up against on the day, didn't exactly do her any favours.
06:59The role unsurprisingly went to one of the performers who didn't look like a legitimate
07:02slayer in the end, and the actor would eventually class her call to go full method as a really
07:07bad idea.
07:093.
07:10Matthew Rhys blew his James Bond audition with a terrible joke
07:14Returning to those times awkward comedy cost folks roles, as Matthew Rhys would tell the
07:19Times, he was once asked to don a dark suit and read the script for the then-incoming
07:24Casino Royale flick, before Daniel Craig was eventually cast as 007, and it was during
07:29that meeting for the James Bond role in the intimidating Broccoli Family's office, when
07:34the American's actor was asked what he'd personally do differently with the Bond franchise.
07:39Immediately wondering whether what he'd just been asked was actually a trick question,
07:44Rhys instead refrained from giving a straight answer, and joked that he'd like to give
07:47the iconic agent a limp.
07:51And silence.
07:52Rhys then decided to double down on the joke, following up with the suggestion of eyepatch?
07:57The casting team clearly weren't impressed by this potential 007's quips on the day,
08:02and opted not to hand this nervous joker a licence to kill.
08:062.
08:07Martin Compton was dealing with extreme jetlag before his Star Trek meeting
08:12Frustratingly for Line of Duty's Martin Compton, he'd reveal on his Restless Natives
08:17podcast that he actually explicitly requested for some time to get over the jetlag from
08:21flying all the way over to Los Angeles from the UK, before being asked to come in to read
08:26for any parts.
08:28Things tend to move quite fast when it comes to meetings stateside, and Compton likely
08:32sensed he wouldn't really be able to do his best work so soon after a long-haul flight.
08:36However, when he touched down in LA at around 8 or 9 at night, he discovered an email in
08:41his inbox telling him that he had an audition for the role of Scotty in the then-new Star
08:46Trek flick, The Very Next Day.
08:48Not only that, but the actor would also need to learn a whopping three-page monologue overnight,
08:53and he ultimately ended up heading to the wrong address the day after, a move that made
08:57him two hours late.
08:59Nightmare.
09:001.
09:01Jamie Foxx got starstruck because of Tom Cruise during his Jerry Maguire audition
09:06A few years before the pair would produce big-screen magic together in Michael Mann's
09:10collateral, Jamie Foxx came face-to-face with the movie legend that is Tom Cruise in a Jerry
09:15Maguire audition, and things didn't exactly go smoothly for the future Oscar winner.
09:21On top of attempting to show off to the Top Gun star by boasting about how many houses
09:26he had, Foxx soon found himself getting a little starstruck.
09:29Then after Cruise decided to take a dramatic pause in the middle of the scene, his anxious
09:34scene partner assumed he lost where he was in the script, and foolishly tried to help
09:38him before being awkwardly told it was an intentional choice.
09:42Simply put, Foxx never really recovered from the overwhelming feeling of meeting the big-name
09:47actor for the first time, and blames his truly terrible Jerry Maguire audition for the role
09:51of Rod Tidwell on the fact he just could not keep his cool.
09:55And that's our list!
09:56Know of any other excuses actors used for blowing major movie auditions?
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