10 Actors Who Totally Blew Star Wars Auditions

If things had turned out differently, Eddie Redmayne could've ended up playing villain Kylo Ren in the Star Wars sequel trilogy - a part ultimately made instantly iconic of course by the great Adam Driver.

But in an interview with Uproxx, the Oscar winner confirmed just how catastrophically he bombed his audition. Like Michael B. Jordan, he struggled with the vagueness of the audition process, and resorted to putting on a voice that didn't go down well at all. He said:

"With films that top secret, they don’t give you the actual lines. So they give you a scene from Pride and Prejudice, but then they tell you you’re auditioning for the baddie. If you’re me, you then put some ridiculous voice on. That was really a hilarious moment. Because it was Nina Gold, who I have to thank a lot because she’s cast me in several films. And she was just sitting there and I was trying again and again with different versions of my kind of 'koohh paaaah' [Darth Vader breathing sound] voice. And after like ten shots she’s like, 'You got anything else?' I was like, 'No.'"

And yet, there's something weirdly comforting about knowing that even Oscar-grade actors can totally tank auditions.