Yahoo Lifestyle James Marsden recalls his clucking terrible “Saturday Night Live” audition
"Yeah, it was a bad choice," the "Westworld" star said.
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James MarsdenBad auditions can haunt an actor years later — just ask James Marsden.
The Jury Duty star had a brutal review of an old audition he did for Saturday Night Live that he opened up about on Wednesday's episode of Live with Kelly and Mark.
Host Mark Consuelos asked Marsden about the time he auditioned for the sketch comedy series. Marsden quipped of the tryout, "If you can call it that."
“They did a nationwide talent search and a friend of mine in my drama class, or whatever, who I used to do these humorous sketches with, said, ‘Let’s go down and audition for it,’” he explained. “I think they made us do… It wasn’t even something like, ‘Create an interesting character,’ or whatever. It was like, ‘Do whatever silly thing you want to do.’ I don’t know why we chose to do this, but we clucked like chickens and just walked around each other.”
“Yeah, it was a bad choice,” he added with a laugh.
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Needless to say, he didn't get the part. But he did eventually land a role on SNL legend Tina Fey's NBC sitcom 30 Rock, where he got to open up to her about his desires to do the show.
“I did 30 Rock for a bit with Tina Fey, and I said, ‘You know, my dream was always to be on SNL,’” he recalled. “And she goes, ‘Oh, well, you’ll host at some point.’ And I said, ‘No, as a regular. I wanna be the guys!’”
“She was like, ‘Well, you probably can if you want to,’” he said. “But yeah, I just love doing impressions and different characters.”
“It’s time for you to host that show, I think you'd be amazing,” host Kelly Ripa encouraged him. Consuelos even had a suggestion for Marsden's proposed SNL hosting stint: “Yeah, host the show and do the clucky chicken.”
Elsewhere on Live with Kelly and Mark, Marsden also talked about how, when he was 18, he turned down an offer to sing in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, and he also plugged his latest project, the third film in the wildly successful Sonic the Hedgehog franchise.
Live with Kelly and Mark airs weekday mornings on ABC.
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