10 Actors Who Admit To Bombing Big Auditions

The movie: A 2000 comedy (?) about a bar run by a bunch of hot girls who occasionally dance on the bar for their drooling male customers. It starred Piper Perabo, Maria Bello and John Goodman (no, he did not play one of the sexy dancers).

The actor: January Jones had never been considered one of the great thespians of out time. She gave a heavily derided performance as Emma Frost in X-Men: First Class, but she's shown genuine talent on television projects like Mad Men. But she's also very attractive so of course she had to audition for "sexy girls dancing" movies.

The audition: It's gotta be pretty intimidating and awkward for your audition to consist of table dancing for one of Hollywood's most powerful figures. I'm sure it would be even worse if you sucked at dancing.

"I'd done the reading for the acting part and then Jerry Bruckheimer wanted me to come in and dance … on top of the table. They said, “You’re going to dance to Prince’s ‘Kiss.’ You’re going to pole dance, but there is no pole.” (Laughter.) And I just turned beet red. It was awful, and he said something like, “Honey, you did a great reading, but you’ve got no rhythm.”