When Jake Gyllenhaal tried out for The Lord of the Rings, he didn’t realize he needed to use a British accent. When he was finished, director Peter Jackson told him, “You are the worst actor that I have ever seen.”

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The role went to Joe Keery, but the Duffer brothers ended up casting Chase in a much smaller role as Reed.

He told Access Hollywood, "I'm just thankful for the Duffer brothers for giving me an opportunity to, like, do my job and start my career. I mean, if it weren't for them, I wouldn't be here."

She told Backstage, "For some reason, and I don’t remember why, I just wasn’t prepared for it...I just— excuse my French —fucked it up."

On CONAN, he said, "When I did it, I stepped back as if it was great. I said, 'That's it.'"

However, from 2004–2005, she worked on the show as an NBC page. She was on the set design team.

She hosted SNL for the first time in January 2023.

Sean told Yahoo Entertainment, “At that time, you were expected to behave in a certain way, and I wasn't following the rules. The people that portrayed me in a negative light were pointing at something else so that peoples' [sic] attention went over there. Calling me crazy was a way to protect themselves."

He told the Hollywood Reporter, "I said, 'Well, did I get it?' That was the worst audition I ever did."

He told Backstage, "I felt really bad, because she was trying really hard to be a convincing android or drone or whatever they're called. Yeah, I obviously didn't get the part. That wasn't my best moment."

On the Happy Sad Confused podcast, he said, "After like ten shots, she’s like, 'You got anything else?' I was like, 'No.'"

On The Graham Norton Show, she said, "I think it had been established that I had more of a look of Cosette, but I had the range vocally of Éponine. So, it was established that, like, I was there for a good time, not a long time."

Samantha Barks, who'd previously played Éponine on West End, reprised the role in her film debut.

She told BuzzFeed, "I like totally missed the last letter on this casting call, so that was pretty embarrassing."

He told Backstage, "So there’s an audition for Bates Motel somewhere that’s a Patrick Bateman impression that's way off tonally."

Freddie Highmore played young Norman Bates in Bates Motel.

On The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, he said, "At one point, I actually walked back and saw it, because they have it on the monitor while you're auditioning. I saw a little clip as they were rewinding it, and I thought, 'Oh my god, that can't be.' It looked like a Saturday Night Live sketch! I was like, 'Oh, I'm not getting this! Now I can really do my Batman! Who gives a shit?'"

On the Lights Camera Barstool podcast, she said, "That one was a little painful."

On The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, he said, "[Director Peter Jackson] turned to me, [and] he was like, 'You are the worst actor that I have ever seen.'"

He told the Hollywood Reporter, "I never got invited back, probably because they couldn't figure out why I was acting like a complete idiot."

On his Prinze and Wolf podcast, Freddie said, "When I left I literally was, like, 'You just talked about Venom instead of Spider-Man for 25 minutes, you stupid asshole,' and I drove home so upset and angry."

She told BuzzFeed, "I could not make my audition, so I have a really, really big regret of never making that audition. Who knows what could have happened?"

She told the Hollywood Reporter, "I didn't get a callback."

He told the Huffington Post, "Talk about a reason that I didn't get a part, man! I mean [laughs], oh my God. What a terrible thing! So, then, I thought, 'Oh my gosh, how many horrible auditions have I had?' Thousands. And what a funny bit. I'm a huge fan of Funny or Die and had toyed with the idea of putting something together with them. So, when that happened, it was just perfect. Let's put together some funny auditions. Because the audition process is such a hoot anyway. And, listen, I'm not going to be great all of the time."