15 Wild, Weird, And Gross Things Actors Were Asked To Do In Auditions

Have you ever been successful a occupation interrogation wherever they asked you a question that was a small off-color? In auditions, actors are astir apt utilized to weird questions oregon requests, similar "pretend you're successful space." Sometimes, however, the casting directors and different members of accumulation propulsion the envelope excessively acold and extremity up crossing the line.

Here are 15 wild, weird, and gross things actors were asked to bash successful auditions:

1. In 2024, Anne Hathaway told V Magazine, "Back successful the 2000s — and this did hap to maine — it was considered mean to inquire an histrion to marque retired with different actors to trial for chemistry, which is really the worst mode to bash it. I was told, 'We person 10 guys coming today, and you're cast. Aren't you excited to marque retired with each of them?' And I thought, 'Is determination thing incorrect with me?' due to the fact that I wasn't excited. I thought it sounded gross."

She continued, "And I was truthful young and terribly alert however casual it was to suffer everything by being labeled 'difficult,' truthful I conscionable pretended I was excited and got connected with it. It wasn't a powerfulness play; nary 1 was trying to beryllium atrocious oregon wounded me. It was conscionable a precise antithetic time, and present we cognize better."

2. At Elle's Women successful Hollywood lawsuit successful 2017, Jennifer Lawrence said, "When I was overmuch younger and starting out, I was told by producers of a movie to suffer 15 pounds successful 2 weeks. During this time, a pistillate shaper had maine bash a nude line-up with astir 5 women who were much, overmuch thinner than me. We are stood side-by-side with lone portion connected covering our privates. After that degrading and humiliating line-up, the pistillate shaper told maine I should usage the bare photos of myself arsenic inspiration for my diet."

She said that she told different shaper she felt these comments astir her value were inappropriate, but helium dismissed her.

She said, "He said helium didn't cognize wherefore everyone thought I was truthful fat, helium thought I was 'perfectly fuckable.'...I fto myself beryllium treated a definite mode due to the fact that I felt I had to for my career."

3. In 2016, Thandiwe Newton told W Magazine that, aboriginal successful her career, "A director, connected a callback, had a camera shooting up my skirt and asked maine to interaction my tits and deliberation astir the feline making emotion to maine successful the scene. I thought, 'Ok, this is simply a small weird,' but determination was a pistillate casting manager successful the room, and I'd done weird worldly before, truthful I did it."

She said that, astatine a movie festival respective years down the road, a drunk shaper told her, "Oh, Thandie, I've seen you recently!" 

She said, "And helium lurched away, looking truly shocked that he'd said that."

Her husband, Ol Parker, spoke to the shaper to find retired what was going on.

"It turns retired that the manager was showing that audition portion to his friends aft poker games astatine his house. And they would each get disconnected connected it," Thandiwe said.

4. In 2020, Kumail Nanjiani told Variety's "#REPRESENT: Success Stories," "I person a Pakistani accent, but [early successful my career] they would beryllium like, 'Could you marque it funnier? Lean successful a small bit.' And astatine immoderate point, I decided I conscionable wasn't going to bash that. There are definite parts that necessitate a thicker Pakistani oregon Indian accent, and that's wholly fine, but I conscionable didn't privation the drama to conscionable beryllium coming from idiosyncratic exaggerating their accent. So determination was a really, truly large movie, actually, that I auditioned for, and I was a taxi driver, and the manager was like, 'Hey, could you play up the accent a small bit?' And I was like, 'I'm sorry, I won't.'"

"And past the feline felt truly bad. And I was like, 'No, it's fine. I'm conscionable not going to bash it. If that's what you want, I'm not your guy.' And past that movie was hugely successful. Still, I don't regret it," helium said.

5. During the 2015 EW Fest, Aziz Ansari said, "I erstwhile was asked to audition for Transformers with Michael Bay. And it was a relation for a telephone halfway feline who does an accent. And I was like, 'No, I'm not doing it.' Ravi [Patel] was like, 'I'll bash it!' And Ravi did it, and helium astir apt made decent wealth being the telephone halfway guy."

"I understand. You person to work, and immoderate radical don't deliberation it's a problem. You bash it," helium said.

6. In 2023, Stephanie Hsu told the New York Times, "I retrieve successful 2012, I went into a commercialized audition, and they were like, 'OK, could you bash it again, but with a much Asian accent?' And I said, 'I'm truthful sorry, but this relation is not for me. I don't bash that, and I'm not funny successful this part.'"

She continued, "I walked out, and I was fuming. I sat adjacent to this histrion and asked him, 'Did they inquire you to bash an accent?' He was Asian and spoke cleanable English, and helium was like, 'Well, yeah.' And I'm like, 'Did you bash it?' And helium said, 'I person nary different choice.' I recognize that radical privation to marque it and they lone spot 1 way and person to crook and fold to person a beingness successful the arts, but I ever thought if that's however it's going to spell for me, past I'm going to enactment astatine a barroom oregon successful a wood shop. I person to marque things that substance to me. Life is excessively abbreviated to wholly dehumanize yourself."

7. During a 2015 roundtable for the Hollywood Reporter, Gina Rodriguez said, "I was up for a relation and auditioned successful character. They're like, 'We emotion her. But tin she travel backmost successful with a choky achromatic dress?'"

She continued, "I said, 'That doesn't marque immoderate consciousness for the character.' They were like, 'We request to cognize if you're beauteous capable to beryllium connected the screen of a magazine.'"

8. During the aforesaid roundtable, Tracee Ellis Ross told THR, "I tested erstwhile for a web amusement to play a lawyer. A Harvard-educated motherfuckin' lawyer, OK? I wore a skirt, suit, and heels. Seemed appropriate. Then, determination were galore discussions astir my hair. They'd printed up each these pictures of maine from 15 fuckin' years agone and had maine successful and retired of the bath trying connected clothes. They yet prime a skirt — the shortest I brought. Then got a T-shirt from 1 of the radical successful the office. The pistillate says, 'Hmmm, your boobs.' I was like, 'I didn't bring a bra for this T-shirt.' She screams down the hall, 'Who wears a 34B?' I enactment connected idiosyncratic else's bra, a size excessively small, and someway auditioned."

"I retrieve wondering, 'What did I conscionable let myself to do?' The different histrion [who auditioned] was dressed similar she was going to a nine and got the role. It was 1 of those moments wherever you're truthful confused and humiliated. But that's portion of the biz," she said.

9. During a 2017 Comedy Actress Roundtable, Emmy Rossum told the Hollywood Reporter, "Even arsenic precocious arsenic a twelvemonth ago, my cause called maine and was like, 'I'm truthful embarrassed to marque this call, but there's a large movie and they're going to connection it to you. They truly emotion your enactment connected the show. But the manager wants you to travel into his bureau successful a bikini. There's nary audition. That's each you person to do.'"

She continued, "He wanted to cognize if I was abdominous now. That was fundamentally the question. And I really had this infinitesimal like, 'Well, however bully is the part?' For a second, I was like, 'Would I bash it? Send maine the script. Maybe the quality is successful a bikini successful the movie.' Not successful a bikini successful the movie. Not bare successful the movie. 'We truly emotion your work, but we conscionable privation to spot however choky your ass is.' Are you fucking kidding me? Last clip I checked, I'm not a fucking model."

10. In 2020, Lana Condor told Teen Vogue that idiosyncratic who worked successful casting erstwhile advised her to "be much similar Hello Kitty." Lana said, "What the fuck does that mean? That's truthful insanely ignorant and racist."

She aboriginal told Variety, "I retrieve erstwhile she said that, I conscionable was like, 'I don't cognize what you mean.' I consecutive up — you benignant of person to telephone that out. Also, Hello Kitty doesn't person a mouth. [So as] a woman, I'm like, 'One, you privation maine to beryllium much similar Hello Kitty, but she doesn't person a voice.' That's truthful insulting to me."

11. In 2021, Steven Yeun told Variety's Awards Circuit Podcast, "The archetypal audition I had successful Chicago was called Awesome '80s Prom, which was an immersive improvised show, wherever you person this John Hughes spectrum of characters similar Ferris Bueller. Then you person your 'Long Duk Dongs,' and I auditioned with Ferris Bueller's opening monologue. And they said, 'That was good. Can you bash that each again successful an Asian accent?' And I'll beryllium honorable with you. I knew that I didn't privation to bash that. The strategy had nary hint that's not what I wanted. We were conscionable successful a antithetic time."

He continued, "And truthful I retrieve I did a shitty accent and phoned it, and they inactive wanted maine anyhow due to the fact that that’s however acold and fewer betwixt Asian actors were. So they call, and they said, 'We’d similar to prosecute you.' And I said, 'No.' And they got truly mad. And I was like, 'Oh, that’s not a bully archetypal measurement successful this business. I pissed idiosyncratic off.'"

12. During the 2017 ATX Television Festival, Alison Brie said, "Early successful my career, I auditioned for 3 lines connected an occurrence of Entourage that I had to spell connected successful a bikini! Or similar shorts and the tiniest shorts. And they were like, 'Okay, tin you instrumentality your apical disconnected now?'"

On Twitter, she aboriginal clarified, "I had a bikini apical connected UNDER my top. They didn't inquire maine to get wholly topless. Sorry to disappoint you!"

13. On a 2023 occurrence of High Low with EmRata, Bella Thorne said, "I had a manager springiness maine feedback once, and I was 10. The casting manager calls my cause and the cause calls my mom, and they're like, 'So, she's not moving guardant due to the fact that the manager felt similar she was flirting with him, and it made him truly uncomfortable.' ... What the fuck are you talking about, man? I don't springiness a fuck what the fuck [10-year-old Bella] said...She is 10 years old. Why would you ever deliberation that?"

She continued, "Also, you're successful a manager session. You can't truly accidental oregon bash anything. You bash the scene, you accidental hello, and you locomotion out. There is nary clip to spell beryllium connected your thigh oregon marque you uncomfortable. What the fuck are you talking about?"

14. In a 2016 editorial for NBC News, Justin Chon said that he'd precocious gone to an audition for a relation helium "felt was borderline racist." Outside helium spoke to a fewer different auditionees helium recognized. He wrote, "I asked them however the audition went, and 1 instantly told maine disgustedly, 'They privation an Asian accent.' I instantly said, 'What the fuck?'"

He continued, "The accent wasn't successful the email, and determination wasn't a wide crushed wherefore the relation needed 1 different than the information that idiosyncratic thought it would beryllium funny. And it astir apt would get much laughs. But is that a bully crushed to marque an histrion enactment connected an accent? Just due to the fact that radical would laugh?"

He decided to locomotion retired of the audition.

15. And finally, for his 2000s James Bond surface test, Henry Cavill was required to locomotion retired of a bath successful a towel portion doing a scene. In 2019, helium told Men's Health, "I retrieve the director, Martin Campbell, saying, 'Looking a small chubby there, Henry.'"

Henry took the disapproval to heart, reasoning the occupation laic with him alternatively than the idiosyncratic commenting connected his body. 

He said, "I didn't cognize however to bid oregon diet. And I'm gladsome Martin said thing due to the fact that I respond good to truth. It helps maine get better."

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