10 Excuses Actors Used For Blowing Major Movie Auditions
6. Robert Pattinson Tried (And Failed) To Pretend He Was American - Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen
The Role
Leo Spitz (Ramon Rodriguez), the college roommate of protagonist Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf), who is obsessed with the Transformers and even runs a website trying to expose the government's attempts to cover-up their existence.
The Audition
Shortly before his career exploded with the role of vampire Edward Cullen in the Twilight movies, Robert Pattinson tried out for this small supporting role in the second Transformers film, and claims himself to have given an audition so bad it nearly cost him his agent.
In an interview with MTV News, Pattinson explained that he spent the audition pretending that he was an American actor, despite the casting team being well aware he was English:
"I thought I was being so funny... I was saying I was from somewhere in America, because I always kept thinking that if you say you're English then they judge your American accent... They knew I was English... So they were listening to my backstory about being from Denver, and they're like, 'What is this guy on?'"
It all worked out for the best, though: Twilight made Pattinson an overnight mega-star and rich enough to start pursuing "worthier" acting projects in its wake.