Over on LatinoReview today, you can watch a video that they say is Josh Hutcherson’s audition tape for the part of Peter Parker in the Mark Webb-directed Spider-Man reboot, a role that eventually went to Andrew Garfield (Scarfield).  They say it was choreographed by up-and-coming (hee hee!) fight choreographer Larnell Stovall from UNDISPUTED 3, and that Hutcherson used the tape to get the attention of Sony execs. 

Though if this was an “audition”, given that Hutcherson’s only dialog was “Thanks” and “late for class,” I’m not sure what it was supposed to prove. That he could do basic stunt work and make this face a lot?  That he could hear a line like “Looks like your dream girl’s sweet on Parker, bro,” and not burst out laughing and ruin the scene?  I’ll admit, I was impressed with that part.

And I’m sorry I couldn’t post an embed of the video here on the site, but to make it up to you guys, I’m posting Gerard Butler’s Dracula audition below, which is arguably EVEN BETTER.

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Worst. Carolers. Ever.

I missed the boat on this “Chris Klein Auditions for Mamma Mia” video here in favor of the 80s bully supercut, but I need to get it out of the way now or else people will be asking me about it all day.  So here it is.  It’s Chris Klein singing an ABBA song in a supposed audition for a role that eventually went to Dominic Cooper.  I can’t imagine that this is real, but no one seems to have any more information.  It seems incredibly stagey and I can’t imagine why he’d be looking directly into the camera during an audition, but if it is fake (which I’m about 85% sure it is), it’s weird that it’s not on Funny or Die or something.  It’s also not that funny, just kind of weird.  On the off chance that it is real, I can only imagine Tarantino was doing sit ups in the corner with the coke wizard spotting him, waiting for Chris Klein to finish so they could make a flapjacks run.

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Well hot damn, someone dug up Kurt Russell’s old audition tape for the role of Han Solo.  It’s well known that Harrison Ford beat out some big name actors for the role (Nick Nolte, Christopher Walken), but up until now I thought the audition tapes existed only as Patton Oswalt bits and SNL sketches.  Who would’ve thought the Stuntman Mike version of an intergalactic smuggler would be… kind of a wuss?  Not that you can blame him.  It’s hard to look cool while delivering lines like, “What’s that little droid carrying around that’s so blasted important, anyway?”

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