8 Embarrassingly Bad Movie Auditions Starring Famous Actors

8. Gwyneth Paltrow (Jurassic Park)

Role? Ellie Sattler.

Did she get the part? No.

If there's one positive Gwyneth Paltrow can take away from this audition it's that her failure to land a role in Jurassic Park didn't really affect the success of her movie career.

She simply isn't right for this part. Here, she's too much the innocent, sweet little girl as opposed to tougher, more hardened likes of Laura Dern, who eventually won the role, and Helen Hunt, who also auditioned.

She sounds like she doesn't understand the words she's reading, when in reality, her character should be fluent in this type of scientific conversation - and it's all capped off with the Oscar-worthy line "maybe they're weird. Maybe dinosaurs are weird."

What a wonderful, insightful analysis.