Russell Crowe was so pained whenDeadpoolcreator Rob Liefeld asked him to try out for the role of Cable that he called him out on Twitter and got him in problem with Fox .
Most actors' careers start in the audition room, where they generally face more rejection than success. However, once they reach a certain level of fame, they don’t have to audition much — or at all! — because casting directors begin offering them roles directly.
At least, that’s generally how an actor would expect their career to go. It doesn’t always happen that way, though, and many famous, successful actors may still find themselves stuck in the audition room. Some don’t mind, but others really hate it.
Here are 9 celebs who hate being asked to audition:
1.Beyoncé was considered for the role of Tiana inThe Princess and the Frog, but she reportedly “expected an offer, but wouldn’t audition and so she didn’t get one.”
Casting director Jen Rudin told theNew York Post , " [ The role ] go toAnika Noni Rose , who was the most qualified . "
2.According to directorJames Cameron,Leonardo DiCaprioalmost lost his role inTitanicbecause he refused to read for it. Cameron toldGQ, “There was a meeting with Leo and then there was a screen test with Leo. … He came back a couple of days later, and I had the camera set up to record the video. He didn’t know he was going to test. He thought it was another meeting to meet Kate [Winslet]. So I said, ‘Okay, we’ll just go in the next room, and we’ll run some lines, and I’ll video it.’ And he said, ‘You mean, I’m reading?’ I said, ‘Yeah.’ He said, ‘Oh, I don’t read.’ I shook his hand and said, ‘Thanks for coming by.'”
He cover , " [ Leo said , ] ' Wait , await , hold back . If I do n’t show , I do n’t get the part ? Just like that ? ' [ I replied , ] ' Oh , yeah . Come on . This is a jumbo moving picture that is going to take two long time of my life , and you ’ll be gone doing five other things while I ’m doing Emily Price Post - output . So , I ’m not go to fuck it up by progress to the wrong decision in molding . So , you ’re go to read , or you ’re not going to get the part . ' So he come in , and he ’s , like , every ounce of his entire being is just so negative — right up until I said , ' Action . ' Then he turn into Jack . Kate just get off up , and they toy the shot . Dark clouds had opened up , and a beam of light of Sunday do down and ignite up Jack . I ’m like , ' All powerful . He ’s the guy . ' "
3.Kirsten Dunst toldBackstage, “I hate auditioning, because I’m so out of [practice]. When you’re in the grind of it, you’re so much better at it.”
However , she ’s more than unforced to audition for component she really wants .
She continued , " Now , I set up differently than how I used to audition . It ’s a totally unlike preparation . Anything I did in that audition [ for Jeff Nichols’Midnight Special ] , I did n’t even do in the movie . "
4.Russell Crowe was offended whenDeadpoolcreator Rob Liefeld tweeted that the actor should audition for the role of Cable.
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Liefeld toldCollider , " One nighttime before I went to bed , I did n’t eff Russell Crowe was on Twitter , and I stupidly tweet to Russell Crowe — not ever thinking he ’d answer me — and I go , ' Hey Russell , you should read for Cable ! ' That did n’t turn out very well . I got yelled at a lot , because I wake up — because he ’s in Australia — to Russell Crowe aver ' Read for it ? ! ' And my manager articulate , ' Yeah , Russell Crowe does n’t read for parts , Rob . You kind of affront him . ' I ’m like ' I ’m sorry ! They just have n’t break up Cable yet , so I ’m just put it out there . ' And then my earphone rings , so some Fox citizenry may or may not have yelled at me for an hour . "
5.O’Shea Jackson Jr.’s dad, Ice Cube, didn’t want people to think he was given hisStraight Outta Comptonrole, so he made him work for it. Jackson toldPeople, “For two years, I was going to acting classes, learning techniques, going to auditions, callbacks, and things like that.”
He also say , " They put me through the wringer . "
6.Jennifer Lawrence struggled with the audition process from early in her career. She toldBook It Self Tape, “I was awful at auditions. I think it’s unfair to, like, throw four pieces of paper at somebody and be like, ‘Act, monkey!'”
She retain , " I think when I had done , like two picture , but I was still very much auditioning . Burning Planewas the only movie people had find out , and my agent would say that [ upchuck director ] would call back and be like , ' We were very thwarted , after seeingBurning Plane , in her audition . ' And it ’s like , really ? You put me in a elbow room with a weird photographic camera , and it face different than me doing a picture show and being on set/ I do n’t know . I ’m not very good at that . "
7.Samuel L. Jackson had to audition for one of his most iconic roles, but he was frustrated over it because he’d already been promised it was his. Quentin Tarantino told him that he’d written the role of Jules Winnfield inPulp Fictionjust for him and only wanted him to read for it. However, going back on his word, the director had other actors audition, so Jackson flew to LA, preparing his own audition on the plane. He toldVanity Fair, “I sort of was angry, pissed, tired.”
The actor give up for a Warren Earl Burger on the way of life and brought it with him . When he designate up to the studio , no one else was there to cope with him .
He suppose , " When they come back , a line producer or somebody who was with them said , ' I love your work , Mr. Fishburne [ mean Laurence Fishburne , who reportedly flex down the role ] . ' It was like a slow tan . He does n’t know who I am ? I was kind of like , ' Fuck it . ' At that point , I really did n’t care . "
His audition blew the director and producers forth . He continue , " [ Producer Lawrence ] Bender told me not to worry . Everything was cool . The occupation was mine . And he said the one thing that sealed it was they never knew how the movie was go to end until I did the last view in the diner . ”
8.Malcolm McDowell was interested in playing Soran after reading theStar Trek Generationsscript, but he reportedly refused to read for the role after a meeting with the filmmakers. According toThe Fifty-Year Mission The Next 25 Years, he said, “What do they think it is, Shakespeare?”
disregarding , he extend on to play the part .
9.And Jennifer Coolidge, who originated the role of Paulette inLegally Blonde, was shocked when, in 2001, a London theater asked her to audition to play the same role in a musical adaptation of the movie. She toldVariety, “I said to my agent, ‘What do you mean, audition? It’s not a straight offer?'”
She continued , " My agentive role said , ' I think they just want to see if you could sing and dance . ' Look , if I got up on stage and fart , and that ’s all I did , it would still be the lady from the motion-picture show ! "
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10.Timothée Chalamet"hasn’t auditioned for anything in more than seven years," according to his agent, Brian Swardstrom.
In answer to a viral unconfirmed report that Chalamet and other actors had try out forGladiator 2 , Swardstromtweeted , " I know one of these player was shoot a film in the middle east for the past several months . "
11.Michael Schur wrote the role of April Ludgate inParks and Recspecifically for Aubrey Plaza because “Allison Jones, who is one of the people who cast the show, called [him] and said, ‘I just met the weirdest girl I’ve ever met in my life. You have to meet her and put her on your show.'”
He told theAV Club , " Aubrey came over to my office and made me feel really uncomfortable for like an 60 minutes , and straightaway I wanted to put her in the show . We did n’t entirely have it off what we were going to do with her , we just thought it would be funny if Leslie had a college - of age houseman who she want to inspire , and that that soul would be Aubrey Plaza . "
12.The chemistry Margot Robbie had with Will Smith inFocushelped her land the role of Harley Quinn inSuicide Squad. She toldMTV, “I actually got offered this one, I didn’t audition, which is a real step up as an actor when you can get offered things.”
She uphold , " [ Will and I ] did n’t have to do chemical science reads or anything like that , and then I already fuck , mistily hump Jared Leto , who ’s play the Joker . "
13.Peter Dinklage was one of only two exceptions to the “long, drawn out casting process” ofGame of Thronesbecause series creators David Benioff and D. B. Weiss “knew [they] wanted [him as Tyrion Lannister] from the beginning.”
Benioff toldCollider , " We obviously did n’t ask [ him ] to try out . We just go after [ him ] . I had touch Peter before , socially . We have a common champion , so I take his email address and mail him an e-mail that just enjoin , ' I do n’t bang if you have get wind of these book , but there is a character named Tyrion Lannister , and I think you would be antic . peradventure we could talk about it at some point . ' So , we started email , and then he came out to LA . We sat down with him and had a swell conversation , where he basically allege , ' I am really interested in this part , but do n’t give me a beard . midget in fantasy motion picture always have big beard . It ’s the cliché of fantasy . ' So , we promised him that he would n’t have to have a beard , and that went well . "
14.Chris Evans “didn’t audition at all” for Steve Rogers inCaptain America: The First Avengerbecause director Joe Johnson “was already familiar with everything he’d done and was championing his cause, not that [he] had a fight from the Marvel team.”
Johnson toldEarth ’s Mightiest , " He came in to the artistic creation department to say hi , understand all the jaw - dropping art and blueprint on the wall , and reacted the elbow room I ’d hoped he would . It was really his fantastic enthusiasm for everything he saw that cinched the deal . "
15.While working on his script forThe Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro wrote the role of Zelda Fuller for Octavia Spencer. As soon as she read the script, she knew she wanted to be part of something so “magical.” When they met up to discuss the project, they spent hours just chatting.
She toldCBS This Morning , " I ’m a huge Guillermo del Toro rooter . I ’ve seen everything he ’s directed and just about everything he ’s executive produced and he ’s an auteur , a true auteur . The first scene when everything is underwater — I say , ' Oh my God . They ’re gon na be doing matter like this . I need to be a part of this motion picture . ' "
16.Adam Driver didn’t have to try out for Kylo Ren inStar Wars: The Force Awakens. He toldThe Howard Stern Show, “I went out and met J.J. [Abrams, the director], and we did…a meet-and-greet thing. Then, it was him thinking about it for a little bit.”
He add together , " He could n’t distinguish me , really , anything about the part either . At that compass point , it was just to look at me , I remember . "
About six months by and by , Abrams finally offered him the part .
17.Michael Fassbender stopped having to go to auditions afterHungerpremiered at the Cannes Film Festival. He toldThe National, “I get taken to lunch instead of having to audition.”
" You spend years just trying to get around into a room and get a persona and then people desire to take you to tiffin ? " he order .
18.Casting director Fred Roos wanted George Lucas to cast Harrison Ford as Han Solo inStar Wars,but the director had a rule that he wouldn’t hire any actors he’d worked with on his recent filmAmerican Graffiti. So, Roos hired Ford to build a door in the offices where Lucas was holding his casting call. In need of an assistant reader, Lucas asked Ford to help him feed lines to the auditioners, but, of course, he ended up offering him the part.
During the2017 Star Wars Celebrationpanel , Roos allege , " Harrison had done a lot of carpentry for me . He demand money , he had kids , he was n’t a big moving picture champion yet . The day he was doing it , George happened to be there . It was serendipitous . "
19.Some actors who get offers still like to audition for other parts. Because of typecasting,Sydney Sweeneyonly gets offers for roles similar to ones she’s already played. She toldVariety, “There’s always people who see me as Cassie [fromEuphoria] or see me as Olivia [fromThe White Lotus]. They send me scripts that are just like that. It’s the ones I have to fight for that usually are the ones that I want that are different, likeReality. I had to audition for it. I had to put myself on tape and send in my audition just like everybody else.”
She continued , " It was the same forWhite Lotus . They did n’t think that I was right forWhite Lotus , because I didEuphoria . So I put myself on tape , I auditioned forWhite Lotusjust like everybody else and had a recall like everybody else . I could get offered roles that are similar to the ones that I ’ve play , but the ones that are different , the ones that surprise people that I do , are the ones that I usually have to fight for . "
