Dylan O’Brien is trying again at his audition for Frozen 2, which didn’t essentially go as deliberate.
The Saturday Evening actor not too long ago made an look on Late Evening With Seth Meyers, the place the host requested him about his failed audition for the 2019 animated sequel, which noticed Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel return as sisters Anna and Elsa, respectively.
O’Brien stated he didn’t go into the audition with excessive hopes of touchdown the function “because I knew that I probably wasn’t going to get it.” The actor didn’t disclose which character he auditioned for.
“They’re looking for multitalented, multi-hyphenate people who can act and sing,” he instructed Seth Meyers of the musical movie. “And I didn’t check, to be honest, probably either.”
The Teen Wolf alum acknowledged that he “can’t sing,” however determined to audition as a result of he doesn’t “always feel like a real actor.” Nevertheless, Meyers puzzled how lengthy it took the casting director to additionally notice singing wasn’t certainly one of O’Brien’s high skills.
“This poor woman,” the actor stated. “I remember, actually — this is a specific detail — she asked me, painfully, if I could get to the chorus because she needed to see if I had a certain range.” O’Brien admitted he was “swimming in the first verse a little bit,” however finally “went higher,” per the lady’s request, and “it was really bad.”
“I knew. She knew. It’s okay,” he quipped, however Meyers requested in response, “Did she know you knew?”
“I think so, because when she said to me, ‘Okay, okay’… She said two ‘okays.’ I’ll never forget it,” The Maze Runner actor recalled. “And then she said, ‘Thank you for coming in. I think we’d probably need a bit of a stronger singer,’ and I was already just nodding, going, ‘Yeah, I know.’ I was like, ‘Thanks for having me.’”
O’Brien added that total, the audition was a optimistic expertise. “I honestly only remember it fondly,” he stated, earlier than playfully telling Meyers, “And then I’m glad that’s what they chose for you to ask me about.”
“We wanted you to have closure. Don’t you see, Dylan?” the host quipped, to which the actor responded, “It’s made me comfortable, actually. I’m serious!”
