Blake Lively’s Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Role Almost Went to Olivia Wilde & Mischa Barton

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Blake Active’s Sisterhood of the Touring Pants Function Practically Went to Olivia Wilde & Mischa Barton

Olivia Wilde, Mischa Barton, Kaley Cuoco and more actresses were up for Blake Active’s Sisterhood of the Touring Pants role sooner than she changed into as soon as solid, in line with a producer of the 2005 movie.

Blake Active nearly never purchased to position on the magic pants.

Sisterhood of the Touring Pants producer Debra Martin Scurry currently detailed the casting project at the support of the 2005 movie, revealing that Blake's portion of Bridget Vreeland with reference to went to someone else.

“We were gonna solid Mischa Barton in the Blake Active role,” she shared on the Feb. 7 episode of the Hollywood Gold podcast, noting that Smallville's Kristin Kreuk changed into as soon as moreover notion about to play Alexis Bledel's Lena Kaligaris personality.

Mischa, on the opposite hand, changed into as soon as dazzling busy filming the current TV series The O.C., which ran from 2003 to 2007. And after production on Sisterhood of the Touring Pants changed into as soon as pushed reduction in prefer of Hilary Duff's iconic 2004 rom-com A Cinderella Memoir, the crew needed to recast many of the roles because of the scheduling concerns.

“We started all around the attach,” Debra defined, sharing that Kaley Cuoco and Alexa [[PenaVega]were notion about, while[[Olivia Wilde]changed into as soon as on “the shortlist.”

As she illustrious, “We noticed everyone.”

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Following a prolonged observe a young actress with “innocence” and “abilities,” Debra eventually narrowed down the alternatives to some of us.

“We introduced in Olivia Wilde, Missy Peregrym and Blake for the ideal audition,” she remembered. “It changed into as soon as Blake's role.”

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And the workforce had a onerous time nailing down Alexis for her role, too.

“We went to Alexis early on for Lena however she handed,” Debra divulged. “She changed into as soon as amassed doing Gilmore Ladies. She changed into as soon as drained, and she handed, after which we kept having a perceive.”

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Happily, Alexis at closing agreed, rounding out the solid with Blake, The US Ferrara and Amber Tamblyn.

And proving that friendship never dies, the quartet are amassed terminate for the time being, with the foursome even reuniting reduction in December to take a examine The US take hang of portion in the SAG-AFTRA Basis panel tournament for Barbie.

“These are three girls folks who I met after I changed into as soon as 16 years frail,” Blake urged Folks in December 2020, “and I've been fortunate to name them my guests and mentors ever since.”

Preserve studying for more stars' iconic audition reports.

Lea Michele

Michele nearly didn't earn it to her Glee audition! “I purchased accurate into a huge automotive atomize outside of the Fox lot—entirely totaling my automotive,” she recounted. “When I earn into the room for my audition, I actually changed into as soon as amassed pulling pieces of glass out of my hair. They're cherish, 'Are you okay?' I'm cherish, 'I'm sexy!'”

Bryan Cranston

The Breaking Unsuitable actor went means for one of his early auditions and it did now not tear successfully. “I changed into as soon as auditioning for a movie at Paramount. I changed into as soon as 21…it acknowledged [the character] changed into as soon as a cocky, self-centered, egotistical brat. I have in mind wearing cowboy boots and jeans, an delivery loose shirt,” he acknowledged. “The chronicle took situation in Texas or one thing, so I believed, 'I'm going to head in there and be accurate this man.' I walked in cherish this and he stands up, holds out his hand and I tear, psh. I sat down, kicked my boots up onto his desk and accurate roughly checked out him. He sat down, checked out my boots and acknowledged, 'Salvage your boots off of my desk.' And I went, 'Oh s–t.' Then I went psh. I accurate scoffed at him but again…he goes, 'GET YOUR BOOTS OFF MY DESK.'”

Felicity Huffman

“I changed into as soon as going in for the ingenue, and I set aside aside on my costume, and I realized that I accurate wasn't moderately chesty enough. So I took lavatory paper, and I stuffed my bra,” Huffman acknowledged. “Then I went in and did a dreadful audition, for a movie, with the director and the cherish of us in the room, and it accurate laid there cherish a boring fish and I changed into as soon as cherish, ‘Properly, thank you so necessary.' And I leaned all of the trend down to earn my web and in a technique, the arm of loo paper—it changed into as soon as God's shaggy dog chronicle— came and went out of my costume cherish that. So I needed to to find my ego and my lavatory paper and trot out of the room.”

Chris Evans

The Captain The US essential particular person as soon as had a truly awkward audition with Ben Affleck. “I went in[for[forLong previous Tiny one Long previous]and shook his hand, and the most necessary recount I acknowledged changed into as soon as, 'Hiya, how ya doing? Am I gonna be okay the attach I parked?' And he acknowledged, 'Where'd you park?' And I acknowledged, 'At one of the most meters.' And he acknowledged, 'Did you attach cash in it?' And I acknowledged, 'Yeah.' And he acknowledged, 'I mediate you'll be all honest.' From that 2d, I accurate wished to earn the f–k out of the room.”

Drew Barrymore

Barrymore recalled, “Oh my God, I obtained't divulge the movie, however they known as me in on a Sunday with a casting assistant. They didn't mediate I changed into as soon as necessary enough of even studying with the casting director. They did it in the basement, and it changed into as soon as a scene the attach I in actuality opt to terminate this oral recount with this man's hand, and no person changed into as soon as there so I needed to terminate it to myself. It changed into as soon as by some distance doubtlessly the most humiliating expertise. I believed,'They mediate I'm such s–t that I'm here on a Sunday with the assistant, giving myself a finger in the mouth. That is a low level.'”

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

The Game of Thrones essential particular person needed to behave out a loo scene the attach he pretended to indulge in explosive diarrhea for his audition for the movie The Various Lady. “And the audition changed into as soon as on Skype,” he urged E! News in 2014. “That changed into as soon as silly!”

Jake Gyllenhaal

“I have in mind auditioning for The Lord of the Rings and going in and never being urged that I most necessary a British accent,” the hunk urged The Hollywood Reporter. “I truly terminate have in mind Peter Jackson asserting to me, 'You know that or now not it is well-known to terminate this in a British accent?' We heard reduction it changed into as soon as actually one of the most worst auditions.”

Emilia Clarke

The British brunette elegance ended her Game of Thrones audition by asking all of the HBO execs if there changed into as soon as one thing else she could perhaps terminate, even “earn them some tea or one thing.” “[Co-creator and showrunner] David Benioff steered I terminate a dance…and so I did,” Clarke admitted. “I don't know the procedure to terminate it, however I did the funky chicken. And I roughly morphed into the robotic.”

Carey Mulligan

For Inner Llewyn Davis, Mulligan nearly despatched in an audition tape of herself wasted. “I changed into as soon as so enraged so I did the audition after a dinner the attach I had had about a drinks,” the Brit elegance acknowledged. “My American accent is finest after about a drinks after which I made up my thoughts to eat one thing—it truly works for Brad Pitt, who eats your entire time in movies. It changed into as soon as a truly inebriated audition.” Happily, Mulligan came to her senses and never despatched the video.

Lucy Hale

The Supreme Tiny Liars auditioned for Dakota Johnson‘s role in Fifty Shades of Grey. “That audition changed into as soon as so unhappy! It's exactly what you notion it’d be: a substantial monologue however very, very sexual…there were some things that I changed into as soon as so embarrassed to be studying out loud, on the opposite hand it's a form of things the attach or now not it is well-known to commit wholeheartedly otherwise you're going to earn a fool of yourself,” she remembers.

Shia LaBeouf

For Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac, the actor as soon as joked, “I despatched him videotapes of me and my girlfriend having sex and that's how I purchased the job.”

Ryan Reynolds

“I changed into as soon as never a spacious auditioner. But I had one the attach I needed to mutter, and I'm a nervous singer. I'm a form of oldsters that…you realize whenever you occur to're in the shower, and besides you're cherish, 'That is dazzling correct'? But after I earn out into the staunch world, it's accurate cherish my articulate turns accurate into a hammer that hits everyone in the face,” the Deadpool essential particular person urged Selection. “So I did an audition the attach I needed to mutter, and it changed into as soon as dazzling snide. It's a form of auditions that changed into as soon as so snide that I perceive reduction and I mediate, 'What if that tape surfaces at some level? That'll be the loss of life of me.' Yeah. That changed into as soon as dazzling dreadful.”

Equipment Harington

In an interview with W magazine, Harington recalled his audition for Game of Thrones: “I had a gloomy observe. I'd been in a combat the evening sooner than…I'd went into McDonald's with this girl I had been dating, and it changed into as soon as unhurried evening and there changed into as soon as no seats. I asked this man and this girl that he changed into as soon as with if we would sit at the identical desk as them. We sat down, and moderately rapidly he started being impolite to the girl I changed into as soon as with, calling her names…He known as her an grotesque pig or one thing worse, and I acknowledged, 'No you would't, you would't name her that. Stand up…He'd been sat down the general time so when he purchased up he accurate kept going. I realized I needed to, at that level, I needed to throw the most necessary punch or else I'd perceive cherish a entire wimp. And I purchased batted. So I went to the Jon Snow audition with a gloomy observe, which I mediate that man who punched me in the face could perhaps perhaps indulge in helped me earn the job, so thank you!”

Casey Affleck

It's a correct recount Affleck isn't a quitter because his breakout role in 1995's To Die For didn't come easy. “I learn six times,” Affleck remembers. “I auditioned for that movie over and as soon as but again for the casting director after which I finally met the director and I learn for him as soon as and he acknowledged, 'That changed into as soon as correct. Okay, you would terminate it,' and I purchased the portion cherish that and I changed into as soon as cherish, 'That changed into as soon as easy!'…Level to to self: 'Don't learn for casting directors, accurate earn into the room with the director.'”

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