“I did not get it. I am not in that film as a result of I received so scared after I walked within the room,” she recalled of auditioning for the 1991 Martin Scorsese movie, “Cape Worry.”
Reese Witherspoon is looking again at one in all her “very first” auditions as a youngster, by which she needed to learn strains reverse Oscar winner Robert De Niro.
Whereas showing on Thursday’s episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!” the actress recalled auditioning for the 1991 Martin Scorsese movie, “Cape Worry,” starring De Niro when she was 14. In accordance with Witherspoon, the audition was an epic fail from the start as she had no thought who De Niro was on the time.
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“One of many very first auditions I ever had was with Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese for a film referred to as ‘Cape Worry,'” Witherspoon, 46, mentioned. “I did not get it. I am not in that film as a result of I received so scared after I walked within the room.”
“I did not know who Robert De Niro was, so I used to be standing exterior speaking to the receptionist,” she continued. “She was like, ‘You realize he is crucial actor of our time, proper?'”
The “Legally Blonde” star mentioned she turned very nervous after her dialog with the receptionist.
“I used to be 14. I might by no means seen ‘Goodfellas.’ I might by no means seen ‘The Godfather,'” she defined. So it completely received on my nerves.”
Witherspoon shared that throughout the audition she struggled with a particular “phrase” whereas studying the strains. “And [De Niro] needed to end the strains for me,” she mentioned, throwing a hand over her face as she recalled the reminiscence.
The “Massive Little Lies” star went on to share that she auditioned once more for De Niro 10 years later, revealing that De Niro did not overlook how she “bricked” her “Cape Worry” audition.
“I assumed, ‘He is by no means gonna keep in mind that I bricked that audition,'” Witherspoon recalled. “And he was like, ‘I keep in mind you.’ I used to be like, ‘Me?’ He is like, ‘Oh yeah. You are the one who could not say the phrase.'”
“Oh, my God! That is so dangerous,” she mentioned.
In the meantime, additionally throughout the interview, Witherspoon opened up about an expertise working with one other Oscar-winning actor: Denzel Washington.
The “Your Place or Mine” actress reminisced about her days as an intern on the set of one in all Washington’s motion pictures again in 1995, recalling a hilarious story that concerned Washington’s Porsche.
Click on right here to see what went down!
