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"I knew I was auditioning for 'Girl successful Movie.' And I really didn't adjacent cognize what benignant of character."
1. First, here's Ariana Grande during 1 of her earliest auditions for Glinda successful Wicked, wherever she performs "Popular" vs. the last country from the film:
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In an interrogation connected the Sentimental Men podcast, Ariana recalled proceeding astir the Wicked audition for the archetypal time, saying, "I was connected the Sweetener tour, and I said to my team, I said, 'If this is happening now. We person to fig it out. We person to propulsion the plug connected this tour. I'm going home. I'm getting into dependable lessons. I'm getting into acting lessons. And I'm going to crook this crap out. You request to perceive from maine now. If this is happening. I'm going location and I'm training, and I'm getting ready. This is each I want.'"
In her caller interrogation with Variety for Actors connected Actors, she revealed to Paul Mescal that it was a "three-and-a-half month" audition process for Wicked.
2. And here's Cynthia Erivo during her audition for Elphaba successful Wicked, wherever she performed "Defying Gravity" vs. the last country from the film:
3. Here's Pedro Pascal's self-tape audition for Oberyn Martell successful Game of Thrones vs. the last country successful Season 4, Episode 3:
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In an interrogation with Late Night with Seth Meyers, Pedro explained that helium recovered retired astir the relation aft offering to assistance a younger histrion really audition for the relation of Oberyn.
"He goes to the bathroom, and I substance my manager close away," Pedro added, saying helium past enactment himself connected portion for the role.
4. Here's Tom Holland during his audition for Peter Parker/Spider-Man successful Captain America: Civil War vs. a last country from the movie:
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In a behind-the-scenes featurette astir Tom's audition, producers explained that they looked astatine astir 7,500 tapes of young actors who wanted to beryllium the adjacent Spider-Man.
"It was a beauteous daunting process," Tom explained. "I went done a signifier of conscionable doing self-tapes aft self-tapes aft self-tapes."
5. Here's Zendaya during her audition for MJ successful Spider-Man: Homecoming vs. her successful the movie:
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In an interrogation on The Tonight Show, Zendaya explained that she had nary thought she was auditioning for Spider-Man while auditioning. She said, "I knew I was auditioning for 'Girl successful Movie.' And I really didn't adjacent cognize what benignant of character."
6. Here's Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron during their chemistry trial for Gabriella and Troy successful High School Musical vs. the last country successful the movie:
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Looking backmost connected gathering the formed for the archetypal clip during auditions, Vanessa told The Kelly Clarkson Show, "I retrieve gathering Zac for the archetypal time, gathering Lucas [Grabeel] for the archetypal time. Me and Ashley [Tisdale] had already met origin we did a commercialized unneurotic a period prior. It’s wild. The clip conscionable keeps flying."
7. Here's Rachel McAdams during her archetypal audition for Allie successful The Notebook other Ryan Gosling vs. the last country successful the movie:
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In a behind-the-scenes featurette astir The Notebook auditions, the producers revealed they tested 10 antithetic actors alongside Ryan, with "nine of them precise good known." Rachel was a "last minute" audition, and the producers didn't cognize who she was.
Ryan explained that erstwhile Rachel came in, she was the lone 1 who didn't privation to speech astir the country and characters earlier the audition; she conscionable did it perfectly.
8. Here's Sam Heughan during his Outlander audition for Jamie vs. the last country from the 2nd occurrence of the series:
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Speaking astir Sam's Outlander audition, casting manager Suzanne Smith told Daily Express, "We did audition different actors, and the casting process is not conscionable 1 audition, you bash a couple, truthful it’s a process of each relation that we bash connected the show. He conscionable embodied the relation and besides being a fantastic quality being, which is truthful important."
9. And here's Caitríona Balfe during her chemistry work arsenic Claire alongside Sam Heughan for Outlander vs. the country from Season 1, Episode 9:
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Looking backmost connected this chemistry test, Sam recalled successful his memoir, "It was intense, physically and emotionally. It near america breathless. She was wrapped successful my arms and I deliberation we some cognize that Jamie and Claire had conscionable travel into beingness together."
10. Here's Stephanie Hsu during her audition for Joy Wang successful Everything Everywhere All astatine Once vs. the last country from the film:
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Speaking astir her audition video for the movie that went viral, Stephanie told NPR, "That audition video was from 2019. I had ne'er seen it. It was benignant of astonishing and really truly healing for maine to spot due to the fact that the movie is truthful chaotic and spectacular that you privation to speech astir the bigness of it, the costumes, the craziness, and it was rather healing really to witness; oh wow I conjecture I did truly bring thing to this? I cognize I knew that, but conscionable to spot the precise bare bones of that show and the magic that happened successful that audition country that day."
11. Here's Miley Cyrus during 1 of her archetypal auditions for Hannah Montana erstwhile she was 12 years aged vs. the last country from the archetypal episode:
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Reflecting connected her audition process connected the 10-year day of Hannah Montana, Miley wrote connected Instagram, per Rolling Stone, "There was a precise agelong auditioning process, and galore chemistry reads which truly is what sold the amusement to the producers and transmission due to the fact that nary substance what went connected implicit the years (which nary of you person immoderate hint astir but it was like The Real World but [with] much hormonal teenagers), our emotion for each different was unquestionable. Even though I consciousness disconnected to who I was astatine that clip I volition ever consciousness eternally grateful for the accidental and level I was given…"
12. Here's Selena Gomez during 1 of her earliest Disney Channel auditions vs. her arsenic Alex Russo successful Wizards of Waverly Place:
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Reflecting connected her aboriginal Disney audition days, Selena told CNBC, "When I was 12 years old, Disney Channel had a nationwide casting search, and we could ne'er truly spend to alert retired to California. So I sent successful tapes, and [I] conjecture they liked me."
13. Here's Patrick J. Adams during his audition for Mike Ross successful Suits vs. the last country from the precise archetypal episode:
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In an interview with BuzzFeed, Patrick recalled his audition, saying, "My audition was truly fueled by the information that I had been fired from a occupation not agelong anterior to this audition. And so, I don't truly retrieve the specifics, different than I conscionable truly went into the audition process for Suits like idiosyncratic who had already been done hell. I was conscionable like, Throw it each away. Nothing tin wounded maine now, which I deliberation helped maine get the part. I'd been done it truthful severely that I was conscionable precise anxious and excited to conscionable person amusive and propulsion caution to the wind."
14. Here's Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar Jones during their archetypal chemistry work for Connell and Marianne successful Normal People vs. the duo successful the last country successful Episode 2:
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Normal People producer and manager Lenny Abrahamson said after Daisy and Paul did a fewer scenes unneurotic successful their audition together, helium looked astir and "three oregon 4 of the radical successful the country were successful tears." He added, "And that [was] conscionable connected a archetypal work with the 2 of them. It was each benignant of determination astatine that point."
Lenny continued, saying, "And past you cognize you've got this live vigor that feels close for the publication and the adaptation, and astatine that constituent you tin go, 'Great! We tin truly marque it now.'"
15. Here's Riley Keough during her archetypal audition for Daisy Jones successful Daisy Jones and the Six vs. the last country successful Episode 5:
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In an interview with BuzzFeed, Riley recalled her audition, saying, "I work the book. I mean, I listened to the audiobook, and I met with Hello Sunshine, like, precise aboriginal on. Then, I auditioned. I sent a self-tape in. This was earlier the singing, conscionable acting. I deliberation I sent astir 3 acting tapes in."
16. Here's Xolo Maridueña during 1 of his earliest auditions for Miguel successful Cobra Kai vs. the last country successful Season 1, Episode 2:
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While re-watching his chemistry work with William Zabka, Xolo remembered being "really nervous" for this audition.
He added, "Those aboriginal scenes with Billy are immoderate of my favourite to film."
17. Here's Walker Scobell's self-tape audition for Percy Jackson successful Percy Jackson and the Olympians vs. the last country successful the archetypal episode:
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In an interrogation with Teen Vogue, Walker recalled filming the self-tape portion filming The Adam Project. He filmed his archetypal audition with his siblings playing the different characters successful the country with Percy offscreen.
"My small member played the teacher, Mrs. Dodds, and to get into character, helium put, like, my mom's precocious heels on, and helium talked successful a truly high-pitched voice. And truthful you tin spot maine benignant of cracking up successful my audition. It took, like, maybe, similar 30 oregon 40 takes. I person nary thought however I got it," Walker said.
18. Here's Daisy Ridley during her audition for Rey successful Star Wars: The Force Awakens vs. the last country successful the movie:
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In a behind-the-scenes featurette looking backmost connected Daisy's audition, writer and manager JJ Abrams recalled, "She conscionable blew my mind. She's reaching this extent of struggle, and tears were streaming down her face. I thought, This is unbelievable."
19. And finally, here's Dacre Montgomery during his audition for Billy successful Stranger Things vs. the last country from Season 2, Episode 2:
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Dacre's audition portion for Stranger Things notably went viral erstwhile it was released.
Recalling his audition to GQ, Dacre said, "I conscionable benignant of wanted to marque a spot of a splash with the Duffers due to the fact that I assumed they would beryllium getting truthful galore tapes. I had the audition details for astir a day, and I did the full happening successful the archetypal time due to the fact that I was truthful overwhelmingly excited astir it. I got [the audition details] erstwhile I woke up, truthful that's 7 o'clock. It was 1 scene, the country of maine and Max successful the car, and determination was a country from Stand By Me."
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