“I remember I’d gone in a lot of times and I believe that it was on the last callback, I’d gone with a friend of mine to conduct traces,” LeBlanc remembered during the highly expected Friends reunion, that surfaced on HBOMax in May 2021. “And he said,’So that the series is all about friends and being buddies? Only a group of buddies’ And he was like,’We ought to go out drinking’ I was like,’Yeah, that is a fantastic idea!'”
It turned out to not be such a fantastic idea, nevertheless.
“To make a long story short, I awakened at the middle of the night in his flat and needed to visit the toilet,” LeBlanc explained. “I got up too quickly and I can not believe I am telling that, but I sort of blacked out — as you can — and dropped face-first to the bathroom, hit my nose on the base of the toilet seat, and a massive chunk of beef arrived off my nose. And I am looking in the mirror, it is bleeding, and I am like,’Oh, my God. I must select the significant callback and [there is ] a enormous ugly scab in my nose'”
As fortune would have it, the inventor of the series, Marta Kaufmann, discovered the narrative behind the harm so accurate to Joey’s personality it scored LeBlanc the function.
Not all poor auditions ends with a fantastic outcome, as Jake Gyllenhaal understands all too good.
The audition took place over”a seminar call from, for example, 14 representatives” that had been excited about the possibility of getting him play Frodo, a role that finally went to Elijah Wood.
”’ that the Brokeback Mountain actress remembered. “`… and if they said they had a hobbit, we believed, Jake! ”’
Things went downhill throughout the audition if Gyllenhaal was taught to follow”plenty of stage directions” — but state”no traces “
His interpretation of this scene wasn’t what manager Peter Jackson was searching for.
“Literally, Peter Jackson was like, [facepalm],” that the October Sky celebrity said, admitting that Jackson had a harsh criticism for him in the moment. “[He said,]’You’re the worst actor I have ever observed. Did anybody tell you are assumed to really have an accent? ”’
