Celebrity Auditions Gone Bad
By Fred Topel, Special to Hollywood.com
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
Emile Hirsch
“I had a really awful audition with Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio. [Leo's] supposed to play my dad, but he’s like 30, and I’m like 20, so it was weird. And then my character’s supposed to burst out crying. I couldn’t do it, and I’m like, ‘All right, just give me a moment.’ And De Niro’s like, ‘All right, whatever.’ So I turn around, and I just remember for two minutes like, ‘They’re thinking I’m trying to work myself up to cry right now. I’m not. I am just staring here thinking about them thinking about it.’ I had just wrapped Lords of Dogtown the day before, and I was unwinding from that. I was just so bummed out about it because I hadn’t really worked on the part at all. Here I was, like an idiot, somehow with two great actors, looking like a buffoon, and I was so bummed I couldn’t hardly look Bob De Niro in the eye. He was like, ‘Hey, hey, hey.’ And I was looking at him, and he was like, ‘Hey,’ trying to look me in the eye. He’s like, ‘It’s OK. You just wrapped this movie. Come back in a couple weeks. We’ve been there.’ [Leo] was supposed to be my dad, and it was really weird! If you haven’t really been around someone who’s that famous, and you meet them, it’s hard to see them as your dad right away. It’s like, ‘Romeo … oh, Dad. King … Dad. Dad? Gilbert Grape? Dad?’"
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