Sentences with phrase «not audition for the role»

Though Marvel's Stan Lee even voiced his support for» #donald4spiderman,» Glover did not audition for the role, which eventually went to Andrew Garfield.

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If West Ham's Premier League clash with Arsenal in December was an audition for Winston Reid, it's safe to say the reported Gunners target would not have been offered a leading role at the Emirates.

I didn't want to tell 50 people I landed an audition for this amazing role only to not be chosen for the role; then have to go back to said 50 people and tell them what happened.

At this point, there's hardly a scene in the slowly paced «The Hero» that doesn't telegraph where it's going, including the eventual audition scene, which screams «breakdown» since the role Lee is up for is, surprise, that of an absent father.

He reportedly auditioned for a small part, and though the show's producers did not deem him right for the characterization, they felt so impressed by Eigenberg's presence that they created the character of Steve Brady especially for him, as an extension of his own personality; the plan, again, was to create a sincere, committed, down - to - earth male paramour to offset Miranda's (Cynthia Nixon) cynicism.Though initially intended as a temporary part, the popularity of the character among viewers (and Eigenberg's onscreen chemistry with Nixon) led to Eigenberg's permanent inclusion on the show, as well as subsuquent movies.Circa 2002, Eigenberg expanded into film roles by playing the business partner of Richard Gere in Mark Pellington's underrated supernatural thriller The Mothman Prophecies.

During the video game centric podcast, the group brought - up the fact that Kumail and Thomas had auditioned for different roles in Deadpool, but didn't end up landing them.

When asked if he auditions for roles anymore, Shannon says that he hadn't auditioned in a while, but the last person he auditioned for was Payne, «because he's Alexander Payne, so he gets to do that,» and admits that he «didn't really like him very much.

2007 Before landing the role of Violet on Fox's «Drive,» Stone auditioned for the part of Claire Bennet on NBC's «Heroes,» but didn't get it.

Similar to his audition process for «Flight,» Dale once again asked to read for the role despite the fact that Robert was not the role Writer / Director Peter Landesman had in mind for him.

«Kyla came in to read for [director] Denis [Villeneuve] with Kerry and I in L.A., and she is such a sweet young little girl you don't really know how she's going to be able to pull this out of her, but she just went there,» Delia says of Kyla Drew Simmons» audition for the role of Joy Birch.

Tarantino wrote the character of Pulp Fiction's Jules Winnfield for Samuel L. Jackson after working with him on True Romance and after a reading for Reservoir Dogs, but a subsequent, lackluster Pulp line reading (Jackson did not realize he had to give an energetic audition for a part written for him) planted doubt in Tarantino's mind — and Jackson lost the role to Paul Calderon, who gave a great reading.

Vicky Krieps, who plays his love interest said that when she auditioned remotely via tape for the role, she didn't realize what the project was for and who she'd be starring opposite.

Variety reports that Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson — who auditioned for the role with Fincher — are in the running, and so might be Jane Levy, who worked with Alvarez on Don't Breathe and Evil Dead.

W Magazine Taraji P. Henson, always fun, talks about getting the acting bug, auditioning for Precious and falling in love with «Cookie» on Empire even though she didn't want to do TV again AV Club Taraji also has a new leading film role as civil rights activist Ann Atwater who in 1971 had meetings with the Klu Klux Klan leader on reducing violence.

At this point, J.J. Abrams and producer Kathleen Kennedy are canvassing Hollywood to put together their cast for Star Wars: Episode VII, and it's hard to find any young actor or actress who wouldn't be game to at least audition for a role.

A rumored surfaced a few months ago that Michael B. Jordan was being eyed for a role in Star Wars: Episode VII, and while the actor likely has not received an official offer, he did confirm to Huffington Post that he auditioned for an unspecified part in Abrams» sequel:

Corden himself «auditioned» for various sidekick roles for Reynolds but none of them seemed to stick — not even a vulgar version of Iceman.

During the Envelope Roundtable for supporting actresses, Janney talked about auditioning three birds for the part and how the calm bird picked for the role wasn't so calm on shooting day, while adding «It was fun, I really fell in love with the bird.»

She remembers that she did audition for a play at school, but she didn't get a role.

It is not yet known who Disney are auditioning for the role in the new film but fans are desperate for McGregor to step back into the role; he would be the right age as well as the standalone film is set in the early years of Luke Skywalker's life.

We were hesitant to make offers to some of the more famous younger actors who were «offer only,» meaning they were not willing to audition for their role.

While he auditioned for the role, he wasn't selected in the end.

This isn't like acting — where you audition, make the cut as one of the top two candidates for the starring role, then the director makes the final decision and it isn't you, so you go back to waiting on tables.

Why not trade a house for the opportunity to hold auditions in Saskatchewan for the movie role?