Have you ever ever needed to stroll out of a job interview? In the event you needed to do numerous job interviews a yr, then you definately would possibly get pissed off sufficient to comply with by. Whereas main stars are supplied roles, most working actors need to audition for each half they need to play. Casting administrators aren’t all the time upfront about their actual expectations, and actors aren’t all the time handled respectfully in auditions. So, it is not shocking that, typically, an actor decides to chop their losses and head for the door.
Listed below are 10 occasions actors walked out of auditions and why:
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In 2023, Stephanie Hsu instructed the New York Occasions, “On the time once I was ending college and dwelling in New York, these roles weren’t obtainable within the mainstream. And I had little interest in promoting myself or simply shrinking myself to an inappropriate cameo simply in order that I might say I added yet one more factor to my résumé. I keep in mind in 2012, I went right into a industrial audition, they usually have been like, ‘OK, might you do it once more, however with a extra Asian accent?’ And I stated, ‘I am so sorry, however this function just isn’t for me. I do not try this, and I am not on this half.’ I walked out, and I used to be fuming.”
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In 2015, The Magicians actor Candis Cayne instructed The Hollywood Reporter, “I went on an audition for Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Larry David was there. The half was for a trans girl who needed to go to the toilet actually unhealthy and determined she was going to go within the males’s line as a result of it was faster. I stated, ‘Thanks for writing a trans half, however I can not audition as a result of a trans girl would not do that. I’ve to honor my neighborhood,’ and I walked out of the audition.”
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In a 2016 editorial for NBC Information, Twilight actor Justin Chon stated that, after he drove two hours for an audition, one other actor who’d simply auditioned “instantly instructed [him] disgustedly, ‘They need an Asian accent.'” So, Justin “determined to not enter the audition and drove the two-hour commute again dwelling.”
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In dialog with Hong Chau for Selection’s Actors on Actors in 2017, Diane Kruger recalled her “worst auditioning expertise.” She stated, “I needed to study…a very, actually lengthy monologue [with] troublesome strains. The audition was on this resort, and, as you recognize, there’s like ten individuals within the room. So I begin the monologue, and [the director’s] cellphone begins ringing, proper? Like, in the course of it.”
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In 2017, Awkwafina instructed Vice, “I’ve walked out of auditions the place the casting director impulsively modified her thoughts and requested for accents. I refuse to do accents.”
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In 2017, Mads Mikkelsen instructed Brief Checklist, “I feel I walked out on the Implausible 4 [audition]. I feel I really stated, ‘I can not do it. It isn’t about you, I am sorry, that is incorrect.'”
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In 2018, Vikings actor Travis Fimmel instructed GQ Australia, “I hate [casting meetings]. Completely hate it. It’s totally unrealistic. There’s folks that prefer to rise up and discuss in entrance of individuals. I wasn’t the child that loved studying out loud at school. I’ve walked out midway by, embarrassed, loads of occasions.”
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In 2024, Robert Downey Jr. revealed his “worst audition” to Paul Giamatti for The Hollywood Reporter. He stated, “I went in for a Dr. Pepper industrial. They got here out within the hallway, they usually stated, ‘OK, you are the pied piper, and everyone needs to be such as you.’ And I simply stood up and walked out of there.”
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In the identical THR interview, Paul Giamatti stated, “I auditioned for a musical as soon as, A Humorous Factor Occurred on the Approach to the Discussion board. You are presupposed to burst into music. I simply began laughing and I could not do it, and I walked out of the room.”
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And at last, James Gandolfini reportedly walked out of his first audition to play Tony Soprano on The Sopranos. In 2019, collection creator David Chase instructed Deadline, “We have been doing it in just a little studio above a dance studio on 79th Road, and he got here in, and he was all huffing and puffing. He began, after which he stopped in the course of it and stated, ‘I can not do that immediately. I can not do that. I have not ready proper.’ And he left in the course of the audition. After which there was a whole lot of negotiating and convincing, not on my half, however on the casting individuals’s half.”
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