“I did not get it. I am not in that film as a result of I bought so scared after I walked within the room,” she recalled of auditioning for the 1991 Martin Scorsese movie, “Cape Concern.”
Reese Witherspoon is having a look again at one in every of her “very first” auditions as a youngster, during which she needed to learn traces 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 Concern,” starring De Niro when she was 14. Based on Witherspoon, the audition was an epic fail from the start as she had no concept 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 Concern,'” Witherspoon, 46, stated. “I did not get it. I am not in that film as a result of I bought so scared after I walked within the room.”
“I did not know who Robert De Niro was, so I used to be standing outdoors speaking to the receptionist,” she continued. “She was like, ‘You already know he is a very powerful actor of our time, proper?'”
The “Legally Blonde” star stated she turned very nervous after her dialog with the receptionist.
“I used to be 14. I would by no means seen ‘Goodfellas.’ I would by no means seen ‘The Godfather,'” she defined. So it completely bought on my nerves.”
Witherspoon shared that through the audition she struggled with a particular “phrase” whereas studying the traces. “And [De Niro] needed to end the traces for me,” she stated, throwing a hand over her face as she recalled the reminiscence.
The “Huge 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 Concern” audition.
“I believed, ‘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 stated.
In the meantime, additionally through 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 every of 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!
