Actors reveal their craziest and worst audition stories
When a casting call is posted actors have to go through thousands of submissions to find the perfect actor for the production. Sometimes, actors make mistakes, or casting directors ask off the wall questions. In a recent Playbill.com series Cue and A reporters asked actors, what was their craziest audition stories and some of them are completely insane.
One actor was insulted for the way they looked.
Steven Pasquale
I sang (pretty damn well if memory serves) “Anthem” at an audition, and a very well-known casting director completely dismissed me by asking if I studied singing, and that if I didn’t, I should. Then he insulted the way I looked, and that was that.
How about being told to pretend you were blind for no reason at all?
Being asked to play the scene as if I were blind, for no reason whatsoever. And yet I still had to read from the script, as I hadn’t been told to memorize it. Maddening.
Or, tearing your pants in the middle of your audition?
James Snyder
I ripped my pants auditioning for American Idiot. I was in full punk rock gear and gave everything I had, I got back in the waiting room after and looked down… the crotch had ripped. Best part: I wasn’t wearing underwear.
How about completely insane stage directions?
Tina Benko
For an indie horror film. The director: “The demon enters your soul, he starts to take over and then you speak in tongues and the rains come. Drenched and screaming, you struggle with him- who is yourself- but he wins and the life goes out of you, and then slide down the wall and die. Okay, whenever you’re ready.” (No, I didn’t book it).
You can check out more embarrassing and completely off the wall audition stories here. If you have any crazy audition stories, share them with us in the comments below!
