We kick off season 2 of Dear Mr. Knickerthief with actor/comedian Anto Sharp as we delve into Sophie's diary during her first audition in London, the time she had to wrestle a hippo. We talk cringe auditions, snogging strangers and discover Jahannah is actually a martial arts master of the broom handle.
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but enjoy nonetheless. Okay.
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So you're on a boat in the middle of a river and ear has
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been attacked by a hip-hop. He's being dragged into the
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water and you are fighting to try and get him out.
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This pillow is the hippo and I need you to wrestle it.
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No. This podcast talks openly about
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mental health, sex relationships, and various other
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personal subjects that some people may find triggering.
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Now, I know what you thinking, so I'm just going to explain a
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little bit. Why do you miss to make a thief?
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So basically, long story short, when I was in year 5, I went to
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in with my class and a guy came in the changing room and stole
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everybody's knickers. So I did what any responsible
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ten-year-old girl would do. And I will a letter addressed to
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said, local pedo printed it off and handed it out around 1:00.
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Is it contained some comedy gold?
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If I do say so myself poetic almost.
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Yeah, not only did little Sophie right.
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The local PD ball. She also wrote to herself every
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day in her diary and when we found it, we like this is
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hilarious. People have to hear this Soul.
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Your we are welcome back to season two of dearest, Mr.
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Liquor Thief. Thanks for all the love on
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season one. It was brilliant, wasn't it?
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Jay We got so many messages and we also from men as well.
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We were a bit worried that men weren't going to get involved.
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We had so many men get all those the boys were all over it won't.
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Yeah they're all over us talking to boys.
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Of course we've got myself. So if Ukraine Got You Hannah,
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James and got special guest today.
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Hello and so sure. And so and so, so yes.
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And so sharp, you can find him all over the socials and so
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sharp. He is a brilliant comedian,
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fabulous actor, and all-round Entertainer writer.
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You name it. So thanks for coming on and
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yeah, every Sophie's diary so excited.
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I can't wait. Okay, so I've got a nice one.
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We're going back to you August 2012.
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Okay. And because obviously, you're a
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performer and you're an actor as well until we've gone forever.
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I found an extract of my diary. It was this particular diary?
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Which is one of my older ones. You see is about a dodgy
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audition. That I went to there is actually
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going to be another episode guys, to keep your eyes peeled.
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Eyes peeled is keep it all peeled, guys, where we talked
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about some sexual predators in the acting industry, and we've
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got some slightly more Sinister audition stories coming up for
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that one, because it happens and but this one's actually
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hilarious. So, hopefully, we're going to
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start the season with some fun. Okay.
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Are we ready? August 2012.
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The pillow. Okay, I just got back from my
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first audition in London with my agent.
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What a shit show that was. This is how it starts, it was
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for a remake in a documentary. So, you know, like when you're
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watching documentaries and then they, they remake the story,
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what's it called? Like a like crime?
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Watch. You know what?
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It's like an action replay dramatization.
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There we go. Yes, for a dramatization.
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So my agent bang me, two days ago and asked if me if I can do
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a South African accent. I mean, you say yes, I used to
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think I was like, I'll good accent.
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So I wasn't a bit on YouTube and was like, yeah, great.
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He said and he gave me the details.
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Yeah. Yeah bro, fully.
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Yeah. Like I soaked African like I do
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at end up talking sound Indian hello blood diamonds and I kind
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of saw straight that's literally my reference I was just gonna
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say it's not you know DiCaprio blood diamond is my reference.
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I was it like it was he say which is line is like a you got
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a good a spear smoke there bro or something like that.
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Oh yes yes. The spin, got a spear smoke,
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their bread, I'll just um I'll just sound lost right now.
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I do, that's it. You have to like end your word
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quite quick. So I've just sound Australian
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but it's like why I think it is very Rocky bread
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that you could do a full stuff. African accent and you were
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going to head out. Hi Sophie.
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Hello. Can you do a South African
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accent. Absolutely, absolutely.
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That's kind of how it went. So, yeah, used to put, you know,
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it's like when your agent goes, can you horse ride bareback?
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And you're like, yes, I need the money and I need the job and
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you'll just go do it. You gonna learn check yourself
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on a horse and then hope the best, okay?
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And so, I walk up to this door dish audition in central London
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and I'm like her, okay. It mean it looked like a block
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of offices which obviously, I know now was like a production
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company but the time I was like, Where is the studio?
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I go inside and there are like ten girls stop there.
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That all look at me and they are.
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They definitely look like me but I think they might be a bit
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prettier to the audition room and you get in there and you're
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like this is all my twin sisters like there's like 15 of us and
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then you're like I'm not special and then you realize that you
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see the majority of Have there been other castings for out
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your? That's the guy that beat me last
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time. Not this time, mister you have
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to be fake nice. You have to be like, oh, good
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luck. Oh, how was it?
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How was my God? Yeah.
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You come out and go. How was it like?
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Yeah. Okay.
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So that's what you need to do. And it's like, you could be
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feeding me bullshit. So they're like you get the
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part. Yeah.
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Oh yeah. Actually, they really want you
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to do is belly dance. I literally hardly ever talk.
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In addition rooms. I'm just in my own space and I
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get A little bit nervous when I go in there so I'm like I just
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gonna come in compose myself and then everybody is like like
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knows everyone, you know, and they're like, oh hi John, how
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long I'll get to see you again? And I know this and I might just
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sitting there on my own like in the corner.
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Like is it my turn yet to go in? And we get the fuck out of here
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when somebody comes out and it's when you come out, is that when
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you come out you like you got this urge of confidence because
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you're the one leave been you like, good luck, everyone.
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Get your bag and coat. It's like it's like you know,
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the weird one and unless you've ever been an audition, it's like
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the most similar thing as a job interview.
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But even that's not anything. Like, you know, it's horrific,
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is it in? Adobe love you don't feel like
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you sit outside like 20 of you, but that all ends in like three
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seconds, you go in and then you're out.
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Yeah, I think the funniest ones are when you what you're in.
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The You're waiting in the waiting room bit.
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And you can like, if it's if it's a casting with eyes, like
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Lotus screaming all shouting or doing something crazy, it's
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literally like a slaughterhouse, you sit in there and they were
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dictionaries, like, Pinkie Pie. Good luck.
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And then the next one's going and just sort of waiting there.
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Like, you know, that sort of moving closer and closer to be
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slaughtered. It's like I'm going to be
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slaughtered better than you. I'm sat down and I get chatting
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to a girl's opposite. She seemed really lovely and I
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think she could probably tell that I was quite new to this.
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Like, I mean, do you even help yourself to the water at the
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water cooler, or is that rude? There was a lot of shouting and
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screaming next door. Yeah.
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Oh my God. Franco walks out.
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Looks at solid smiles, and then leaves and the next is called
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in. There you go, it's pretty it
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happen. It does happen, every single
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ones, the same. Finally, my name is cold, I go
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in, and I'm taking into a little side room off from a load of
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offices. The room is glass though and
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everyone can see in which I think is pretty weird.
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But now, I bloody know why these auditions she really had to be
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for a laugh or something. Maybe they were being held, so
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the office staff could just get a giggle.
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I say, who I am. And my home, my age in is, and
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the guy sat behind the camera tells me what I'll be doing.
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He goes right? Okay, so you are the wife of
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Dave, you are South African, you can do a South African accent,
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right? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah
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bro. Yeah, he goes great.
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Okay, so you're on a boat in the middle of a river and Dave has
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been attacked by a hip-hop. He's being dragged into the
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water and you are fighting to try and get him out.
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This pillow is the hippo and I need you to wrestle.
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No fuck's sake, this fluffy pillow, I'm set on this sofa.
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The whole room obviously is glass.
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You can see everybody on the production floor like on their
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laptop planner like any chunks, this pillow at me and he goes
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That's a hip or you've got to wrestle It Go.
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And I was like I was actually like ah ah David know it it's
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like oh my God, I do. If that if that tape is out
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there somewhere, I would pay a lot of money to see that God's
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word that is, that's brilliant. That is, that is so for their
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entertainment like that. It's so easy that I mean, okay?
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It's like your agent calls. You is like, I'm sorry.
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So for you and you didn't get the part you like, oh why you
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didn't wrestle the hippo bed at like good enough, you know, it's
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just a hip bones are stronger than what you acted.
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It's they did they weren't interested.
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It's like fuck off. Can you do is have a good exit
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is like yeah. All right, sweet.
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Yeah. They may give you absolutely
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nothing and it's not even like it's sort of It's bizarre.
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I mean, like if you are a human and, you know, I know you have
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probably seen 50 in a day or whatever.
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So it's like Yoko is is another wrestle.
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But like, come on man. Give us a little, a little smile
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or humming, you know? I mean, I'm amazing.
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Yes, just love me. Did you do that?
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Rest of the pillow go? Because I fucking good enough or
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not. Just tell me eliminate my agent
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and tell me. Have you have you guys ever had
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a kissing scene where there is Anyone to kiss.
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Oh God, to make the decision, whether you kiss the air or not
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like yeah. Okay.
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I'm actually I think I like I think I've done.
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I've done so many cringy strange things in an audition like it is
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all like a learning thing. Isn't it?
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Like you got like for example when you kiss the are you go
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mental check never do that again.
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Yeah sorry so he chokes me this bloody pillow count.
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Down and press has recalled. I'm sat on the sofa going, like,
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no, David. Give me your hand.
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Get off him while tossing this pillow around for what feels
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like an eternity and then the guy goes thank you then I was
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like, okay so now what do I do? So obviously, never been in an
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audition before. Do I shake their hands do?
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I give them a hug? Like, I was like, thank you.
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Okay, thank you very much. So I did that weird thing where
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I probably lingered a little bit too long And didn't leave the
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room like when you don't know, if someone's going to go in for
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a hug or not and then I just left.
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Pretty sure. I won't be getting that job and
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you didn't and I did not. I don't know why.
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I don't know why I didn't. So yeah, that is one audition
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Story. I mean, we've already like
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started chatting about them, but it is just ridiculous.
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Is, why do you put yourself through it?
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But then, you know why? Because potentially There's like
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a really good job and a lot of money and that's why he now
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that's not a good job though. Is there you make a lasting so
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it just didn't see it. Yeah, it's a stepping stone,
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though. Sophie, it's a stepping stone.
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I know. Just think where I could be.
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Now if I'd have just wrestled that hippo, right?
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And so, what's the worst audition that you've ever had?
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Oh fucking hell this there's so many job.
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I had one. It literally wasn't that long
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ago. Ago.
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And I kind of remember it was for think it was if it was a
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commercial but, you know, when you go into a room and the only
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thing I had in my head like was don't forget the Lions.
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This is the only thing I had in my head is, like, don't forget
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the lines as we have to dance together.
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Lines, don't get the lines went in there and I was like, and it
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was a fucking, it was a, like, a beast, this thing.
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And I had like, a day or something to learn it.
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I was like, how can you expect me to do this?
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But I'm an actor, you have to little bit.
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I can't. You hate you guys.
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So this is the bait and as I've got in and I'm like and the guys
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actually said to me like there was fucking nine people in this
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room, I'm not even kidding. It was like and I had the guy
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came out before I was like lions are you ready to go ahead?
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Yeah it's going as I like it just to let you know there's no
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and of us in there. I was like, yeah, don't worry
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this one instantly. I was like fucking shit
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straight. I was like, no.
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None of them sitting there staring at me.
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I was like cool. I've done I've done worse.
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I went in sat down, and I think the reason I was nervous, I
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think it was quite a large quite a big casting agents.
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I was like, I have to make a good impression, you know.
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That's the big as it is, they'll cast me for my lifetime.
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So I've got a bun in any way, and I sat down, is these nine
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people looking at me and in my head, is to get Alliance
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typical. I'm okay, we're good.
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We could just just breathe. And then, the guy stands up the,
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the guy behind the camera. And he says, I'm also we are
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aware. That is a long piece so don't
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don't worry too much about the lines and I've gone but because
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unlike, it sort of backtrack, now, I'm up.
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But yeah. Okay, cool.
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He said, if you need to look down at them, that's, you know.
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Don't don't worry too much. Just, you know, I was like,
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what? So what?
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And I literally, I was so flustered.
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I was like, do I need to know that?
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So what? Yeah, sure.
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Just fine, no worries, fucking shit in it.
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And I just went The you won't take a minute.
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It's fine. I was like, fucking shit.
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I fucked this one up. Yes, appear.
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I peered down at the, like, they're the the dialogue and
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then went in. And this was supposed to be like
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a casual sort of conversation with a friend.
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Hello, fucking. I had this like, presenter Tone
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come out. I was like, it was fucking
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Dreadful. I would say it was like, hello,
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John, I'm going to go to the Hi there, John.
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I'm gonna go to the park, but you didn't know that.
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Did you and it was fun. Oh, sure.
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Otra over the top. And I got to a point where I was
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literally. I got out of breath because I
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was so, like, like highly pumped on this weird, adrenaline
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present a thing I was doing and then it halfway through.
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He went just, just stop everything and I've and I looked
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him in the eye and I just thought instantly, good luck.
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Eli time, fuck this candle it. And he, he looked at, everyone
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is sort of, like, done an exaggerated nod to everyone.
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I think we've seen enough. Yeah, I think we
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literally like, fuck. And I stood up I was like,
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thanks a lot guys. I always wanted to go sorry
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about it. Thanks guys.
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Thanks a lot left and I walked out and I was like what a stupid
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piece of shit. It's like honestly it's it's
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such a small thing when you think about audition rooms when
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you get to that state and you can't like calm yourself down
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or, you know, actually think what is important in the world
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you're in a, it's just, you just saying words to people, you
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know, it's I know it's there's so much riding on it in some
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people's minds because of the passion to get into this
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industry, you know? But But that was from what I can
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remember. Probably the worst audition I've
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ever had just because I'm yeah clear.
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As they just fucked it like conscience, did you think now?
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We're like and it should I play like you know, when you you're
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so focused on it, like we spoke about this before johana aren't
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you? You're so folks, I didn't say
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yes, it's this. It's this is theirs and you get
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it on your head. I think they can like, almost
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smell desperation sometimes. So it's like if you go ahead and
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you're like yeah dude it by then you forget about it.
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I feel like Yeah. Dinner like it's better but I've
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had some awful awful auditions. I want to excuse myself and said
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I'll leave some nonfiction. No alright I'd ran to it because
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I was late fell over like flat on my face as an adult and
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skidded across the gravel on the pavement and Life to all my new,
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you know, you do and your kid. So I arrived like a bloody nail
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driven. Dalmatian stress.
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Okay. So obviously I got in this dress
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and it showed off my legs which were bleeding.
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And I was so So flustered, I came in, I was about five, I'm
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five foot four, all these girls, with five foot nine like tall.
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Slim beautiful. Don't know what the frig I was
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there, then he like rights that dress is beautiful.
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Can you show off the arms? Meaning, they were like Spin and
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put your arms up and like carefree.
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And I stood there, held out my arm, took my other for hand and
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just trailed it from my fingertips all the way up to my
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shoulder. Like I was displaying like a car
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or something like this. Like This is my arm and then and
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then I put my arm down and looked at them.
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I know when I'll go The music video One again where I sat on a
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chair like right, you're in a rowing boat can you roll for me?
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And I was like sorry they're like yeah this is a rowing boat,
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has it? She started the right right.
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And then you stopped in the middle of the lake.
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You take a breath and as I like know you've got to roll back so
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I can turn yourself around. I'll let you run.
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You've got to look like someone's chasing you and you
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just run it across the room squids and forwards like this.
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Many awful things and you like I'm in absolute Terror of myself
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in there. Yeah.
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But sometimes I have had an experience.
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I had one audition experience where it went so wrong, they
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went right? So yeah, so I had this amazing.
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I had this call from my agent that was like last minute.
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Can you get to this audition? It's in London Bridge in half an
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hour and I was like, well I have work.
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I have work in about an hour and a half like I can swing by maybe
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so I arrived not me. You know, anything about it.
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Got the sides and I arrived in there was like 50 girls and it
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was a physical. It was from the lead role in
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this pilot and they needed to fight.
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So, there was a stunt choreographer at the front and
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they were teaching girls in groups of five, the fight
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routine and I was like, ah, I'm really dyspraxia, Chris isn't
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for me, and I said, to some, some people I was like, look, I
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have work in like an hour. Can I go first?
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And I'd like to just get it over and done with, because I'm not
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going to get this as we horrible.
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So we had to learn this routine and it was just like, I had a
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five, six, seven, eight, five, five five and it was like so I
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just went in completely forgot. The routine may it up read the
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thing left and thought. Nah, not gonna get that.
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And then I got a recall. And I was like, what?
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Oh, okay. And then, I turned up to the
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recall. They sent me, they were like
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what you're doing the same script as before, but you got
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the off book, completely off book for this one.
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And also, obviously you said in the audition that you were
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martial arts trained. So, Bring your choice of weapon
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and I'm like, yes, I will just get my weapon that I am trained
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in. I'll get my Elvis stuff and I'll
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meet you at. I kick the head off a broom,
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that's all I had. And I had like a long wooden
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pole which I took on the tube all the way to like the audition
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room. So I arrived at this.
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Looks like some sort of like samurai sword.
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I've got my broom. I'm going to just pretend to be
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using this broom and I arrived. I am the first of the day and
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I'm early. So I'm in the audition room
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before the panel. They come in and I'm like,
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warming up in my shorts and then you have already.
00:22:00
Okay, well, don't mind us were just going to set up.
00:22:01
So the panel's there, get up and they're like, right first we're
00:22:04
going to do the physical bit, so if you want to show us your
00:22:09
skills, and let's let me spin this thing around being, like
00:22:13
Mulan, I'm like a mad at you. Yeah, this is me, jumping around
00:22:17
the room been an absolute it, and then they go look - move on.
00:22:21
Let's move on to the to the theme of this, see this.
00:22:23
So then all this This is this is all on tape and I know the
00:22:27
director so I could probably find it, but it, oh my God, we
00:22:30
have to put this in. Yeah, and then we go and then
00:22:39
they go. Oh no, that that's not the scene
00:22:42
that we sent you and they've been a massive mix-up and the
00:22:44
scene I was supposed to be off book for for the final audition.
00:22:48
I didn't have it. I knew that the wrong script.
00:22:50
So the director said, no, this is the scene that you need to
00:22:53
do. So he handed to me I'm also B,
00:22:55
dyslexic. I find sight reading so hard and
00:22:57
he could see the panic in my face.
00:23:00
I was like, oh my God. And then, I was like, you know
00:23:05
what? I've lost it anyway.
00:23:07
I was like, I'm not gonna get this anyway.
00:23:08
So you know what? I'm going to show them what
00:23:10
they're missing, and I just did this scene, because I just
00:23:13
thought that I hadn't got it. I did it.
00:23:15
And I think I did it really well, and long story short, end
00:23:19
up booking the job. And so, what the director said
00:23:22
it was, because he saw the panic and fear, Fear in my eyes when
00:23:25
he handed me that script and then he saw me compose myself
00:23:29
crack on anyway. He was like that's the person I
00:23:31
want to work with on set when she gets thrown like a right
00:23:34
coming out of left field, she's going to be able to go.
00:23:36
Cool! I got it.
00:23:38
Crap, The Show Must Go On. That is awesome.
00:23:42
I didn't see the panic in my eyes when they threw the pillow
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at me. Ha!
00:23:45
Ha! Ha.
00:23:49
Okay, so next part of the show JJ's had in some Listeners
00:23:57
getting involved in today's topic which is of course, funny
00:24:00
auditions. Funny stories is an Agony, Aunt,
00:24:02
kind of story time section. Yes.
00:24:05
So I put the call out asking fellow actors for any
00:24:11
embarrassing stories that they've had and my friend
00:24:14
Maddie, an whole she actually sent in like a voice note, which
00:24:17
she's giving me permission to play so we can play that for you
00:24:20
guys at home. Now, my it's going to be one of
00:24:23
our guests, by the way, guys. So make sure You keep your eyes
00:24:26
peeled? Yeah, buddy.
00:24:31
Have a bit of an audition, which involved superglue as.
00:24:36
Yeah. That's what happened with her.
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I babe, how are you? And your, well, my audition
00:24:42
story is that I auditioned for a German super glue as the premise
00:24:49
of the advert was dodgy as fuck. The premise of the advert.
00:24:52
Was that I was playing a drunk woman, who a guy had brought
00:24:58
home to his flat already dodgy and I know, sorry, I taking him
00:25:03
home to my flat and then I went into the bedroom and like, put
00:25:07
lingerie on hammered still drunk and then came out and he'd found
00:25:12
some super glue and was like, putting together a train set and
00:25:16
was so into how good the glue was that he was didn't pay
00:25:20
attention to a drunk woman that he could have taken advantage of
00:25:25
Anyway, I this is really early on obviously like long time ago,
00:25:30
otherwise I wouldn't have done it and yeah and so they had all
00:25:36
the super glue there and I was many like go on the sofa and try
00:25:40
and distract him from the super glue and I was taking it off his
00:25:43
hands. But he'd already unscrewed the
00:25:46
cap and I squeezed it all over my fingers and my hands and my
00:25:49
fingers stuck together to even get the job.
00:25:53
So, there we go. Classic.
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And then I've also been looking up because there are so many
00:26:05
great stories about. It's not just us that happens.
00:26:08
Do really famou people have really bad auditions as well.
00:26:13
So some some famous people that you might know.
00:26:16
So Jake Gyllenhaal auditioned for the role of Frodo in Lord of
00:26:21
the Rings but he he didn't realize that it It had to be in
00:26:26
like a British accent, it couldn't be an American accent,
00:26:28
so he went in to audition for Peter Jackson and did the whole
00:26:31
thing in American. And then apparently, Peter
00:26:34
Jackson said, that's the worst bit of acting I've ever seen.
00:26:38
Oh shit. Do you know what?
00:26:42
When I was doing musical theater, I had a cats audition
00:26:44
in the morning, so I did a dance call at pineapple, and then I
00:26:48
had to go right the way across town.
00:26:51
To another audition for Spice Girls.
00:26:53
The musical and I was Exhausted. And I went in and I was so
00:26:57
nervous and I had to sing a pop rock song which just isn't
00:27:01
really my thing. And I sang it Anastasia, I'm out
00:27:05
of love because awful, and it's like that me free, like, oh,
00:27:10
like this, and then I go out on my agent.
00:27:14
Rang me, bear in mind. This is our God musical of your
00:27:18
auditions are so physical. So I was knackered.
00:27:21
And then whenever my agent rang me and his, you, he was like, I
00:27:23
just had a call from the Casting director.
00:27:25
And they said, if you can, can you please make sure next time
00:27:29
that you're sending me. Any of your clients that they
00:27:30
can bloody sing. I was a, but you can sing.
00:27:35
So well, and they gave you that feedback, your agent told you.
00:27:40
That's what they said fucking turd.
00:27:43
Yeah. So Ryan Gosling had exactly the
00:27:47
same thing happened to him that happened where, you know, in
00:27:50
la-la land, when Emma Stone's doing the most amazing audition
00:27:53
and then the casting Person gets a phone call that happens around
00:27:57
gusting. I don't know whether that's why
00:27:58
it was written into lala land. I'm not sure.
00:28:00
But he said that he was giving one of like the best auditions
00:28:03
of his life. Super emotional in the moment
00:28:05
and the casting director stopped and sat site.
00:28:07
But it's called blessed are like keep the tears or huh?
00:28:11
That's good. Yes back.
00:28:13
So happens to the best of them. Oh, this was one as well.
00:28:17
So Meryl Streep, she was 27 and she was auditioning for a reboot
00:28:24
reboot of King. Hong Kong.
00:28:25
And the Italian director said that.
00:28:29
No, she spoke in Italian and said this, this goes to ugly,
00:28:33
like no way he can, I cast her? Not knowing that Meryl, Streep
00:28:37
speaks Italian. So then she's like, yeah.
00:28:41
And then she actually said something really bad ass back to
00:28:43
him. I remember when were there
00:28:44
moments in my life? Where I know I did not, I'm not,
00:28:49
I'm not quick enough like I'm like trouble away and then I
00:28:53
walked away. Darn I should have said that.
00:28:56
Like yeah. Oh I'm exactly the same, but she
00:28:59
said to misquote her completely, I would rather know something
00:29:04
about an ocean, and I'm going to go and swim in a better tied
00:29:07
that I've ruined it. That was what she said.
00:29:08
But well done. Brilliant.
00:29:11
But she got like yours Johanna. But she got the last word in and
00:29:16
she went off and she went off to be an Oscar winner and that film
00:29:19
tanked. So fat, and you know what?
00:29:22
So the Spice Girls the musical, Haha, you know, Foods.
00:29:31
Thank you so much. Anto for sharing your hilarious
00:29:35
stories. It's been so much fun.
00:29:38
I want to add. Thank you, and Tow, and go and
00:29:40
swim on a better tie.