15 Surprisingly Disastrous Auditions By Famous Actors
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Auditions by famous actors are always interesting to watch. Many people want to see how the actor portrays themselves and if they can live up to the hype. In Shakespeare's time, plays were performed by professional actors who were hired by the theatre company. These days, many actors start their careers in small towns and cities across the country by auditioning for roles in local productions. However, some famous actors got their start by auditioning for major Broadway or Hollywood productions.
Poor choices, bad luck, and other unfortunate events led to these performers bombing their tryouts and never landing the role.
There are many actors out there who, for one reason or another, have had some pretty disastrous auditions. Some of these actors are quite famous, while others may not be as well-known. But regardless of their level of fame, all of these actors endured an audition that they would likely like to forget. So without further ado, here are some famous actors who had surprisingly disastrous auditions.
![Will Ferrell's SNL audition involved rolling around with cat toys in silence. He came up with a sketch about a guy who liked to play with cat toys between work calls, and when he did that at the audition, nobody laughed and he thought It's over. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/6/780596.jpg)
Source: NYTimes
![Mark Strong's audition for a Bond villain was a terrible experience. To celebrate the audition, he went out and got drunk, then came in for the actual audition still drunk and totally forgot all his lines in front of eight people. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/7/780597.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
![Sean Penn's audition for Fast Times at Ridgemont High totally bombed. He was sure he'd get the job, so he did the audition pretty arrogantly, and bombed. He only got the job because a director ran after him to tell him to try again. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/3/780593.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
![Eddie Redmayne auditioned for The Hobbit, and it went horribly. They asked him to audition for Bilbo, and he came in with a very theatrical approach that made Bilbo come off as a flaming queen. He never got called back. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/2/780592.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![Caitlin O'Heaney got punched by Val Kilmer in her audition for The Doors. That's what she alleges suddenly happened in an audition scene where she was supposed to have a verbal fight with Kilmer's character. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/4/780594.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![Nikolaj Coster-Waldau's audition for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button was horrific. The camcorder wasn't even recording his audition, and it suddenly turned off in the middle of him delivering his lines anyway (but they told him to keep going). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/5/780595.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![Nicholas Hoult had to audition for X-Men: First class as Stewie from Family Guy. Director Matthew Vaughn asked him to do a few takes as Beast doing a Stewie impression, which he did- and it probably helped him get the job. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/0/780590.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
![Chris Klein auditioned for Mamma Mia, and it was dreadful. His audition ended up on the internet, and he explained I don't know why I was in there. But I took a chance! It's a musical - let's see if I can give it a shot. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/9/1/780591.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![Jason Scott Lee's Skype audition for Mulan was just incredibly awful. It was so bad that Disney passed on him, so he thought that was that - but they got back in touch a year later and asked him to re-audition, and it worked that time. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/9/780589.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
![Michael B. Jordan's audition for The Force Awakens was his worst one. Everything was so vague that he couldn't relate to any of the material. Reading through, I just couldn't connect it. I definitely bombed that one for sure. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/7/780587.jpg)
Source: People.com
![Peter Facinelli auditioned for Clueless and refused to drop his accent. He came up with an interpretation of his character that involved an accent, and didn't want to try anything else even when they asked him. He lost the job. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/8/780588.jpg)
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
![Lauren Cohan auditioned for The Walking Dead by sticking her head out of a castle window. She was in an Irish castle for a wedding, and they asked her to film herself with more light, but it was super dark so she poked her head out and filmed that. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/6/780586.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![Tina Fey auditioned for a McDonald's ad in the '90s, and it was pretty terrible. It turned out that they'd shoot the side of her face that had a scar, so when it was her turn to audition, she just made a quip about the scar and left. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/5/780585.jpg)
Source: Vulture
![Glenn Close's audition for American Gigolo was so humiliating. She walked into a scene with John Travolta in a bed (with eight other people there), and neither of them knew their lines so she had no idea what to do. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/4/780584.jpg)
Source: Variety
![Elizabeth Olsen's audition for Game of Thrones was her most awkward. N They asked her to audition as Dany with and without a British accent, delivering the speech right after she emerges from the fire in season 1. It was terrible, she says. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/5/8/3/780583.jpg)
Source: Vulture