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Reese Witherspoon shared her experience on one of her first auditions on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The actress revealed that she auditioned with Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese; however, she made a major mistake that has stuck with her ever since. The casting was for the movie Cape Fear, and Reese did not get the part.
โIโm not in that movie, because I got so scared when I walked in the room,โ Reese recalled. Cape Fear was a remake of the 1962 version of the same film which is based on the 1957 novel The Executionersย by John D. MacDonald.
14-year-old Reeseโs experience at the audition
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Apparently, Reese had no idea who Robert De Niro was and was terrified when she realized on speaking to the receptionist. โโฆ She was like, โYou know heโs the most important actor of our time, right?โโ Reese recalled. โI was 14 likeโ Iโd never seen โGoodfellas.โ Iโd never seen โThe Godfather.โ So it totally got my nerves, and I went in there, and I couldnโt remember, there was like one word I couldnโt say, and he had to say the word for me; he had to finish the lines for me.โ
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Even now, Reese still struggles to remember the exact word, but she assumed it to be like โsupercalifragilisticexpialidociousโ from the film Mary Poppins. Like that wasnโt enough, Reese met De Niro at yet another audition a decade afterโ and he remembered the previous incident. โI thought, โHeโs never gonna remember that I bricked that audition,โโ Reese told Jimmy. โAnd he was like, โI remember you.โ
โI was like, โMe?โ Heโs like, โOh yeah. Youโre the one who couldnโt say the word.โโ she continued. โOh, my God! This is so bad.โ
More memorable Hollywood experiences from Reese
Theย actress also recalled her time as an intern on the set of Devil in a Blue Dressย starring Denzel Washington, and Reeseโs role was to park his car. She revealed that Denzelโs Porsche was โnot a good idea for a 17-year-old kid with a brand-new driverโs license.โ
She further explained that driving the car was difficult as it had a manual transition. โOh, my God! I stripped all the gears, it was terrible,โ she revealed. โThe funny story is, I saw him a few years ago at a wedding, and heโs like, โIโve heard you tell this story about how you used to park my Porsche.โ And I was like, โYes, I did.โโ
Whatโs Reese up to?
Despite Reeseโs one or two cheesy mistakes, she has made a name for herself in Hollywood, bagging an Oscar for her role in Walk the Lineย and an Emmy for Big Little Lies.
She has her recent movie, Your Place or Mine, on Netflix. The romantic comedy, which features Ashton Kutcher, is referred to as a โkind of a love letter to single moms everywhere,โโ as she put it to People. She enjoyed working with Kutcher, saying they โhave a very similar sense of humor and timing.โ