Aaron Paul Recalls Disastrous Cloverfield Audition
Many years before 10 Cloverfield Lane, now available for digital purchase, we were introduced to the J.J. Abrams-produced universe courtesy of found footage monster movie Cloverfield. Today we’ve got a fun little Cloverfield story to share with you, as actor Aaron Paul has spilled the beans on his failed audition for the 2008 film!
While chatting with Tom Hiddleston for Variety and PBS’ series “Actors on Actors,” Paul recalled that J.J. Abrams had convinced him to perform a magic trick on the set of Mission Impossible 3, with Tom Cruise and the rest of the cast watching, and when Abrams brought up the memory during his Cloverfield audition, well, it derailed the whole thing.
“I went into this audition for Cloverfield. J.J. Abrams was producing it and I kept asking if J.J. was going to be in the room and 100% of the time they said, ‘No, he’s out of the state,’” Paul opened up. “I walk in, and J.J.’s there. He brings up the magic trick story, and I lose my train of thought. I have three pages of a monologue that I memorized. That was my audition.”
“He has me tell the story about the card trick, and now I’m super awkward,” Paul continued. “He’s like, ‘Now let’s get started,’ and I start doing this monologue and I completely lose my train of thought and I stop and I apologize to J.J. He’s like, ‘That’s okay. Thanks for coming in.’ I’m like, ‘See ya,’ and I walked out. It was awful.”
Of course, things ended up working out for Paul, as “Breaking Bad” premiered the same year Cloverfield was released!
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