Your Favorite Actors’ Most Awkward Auditions, Revealed

Jake Gyllenhaal Wasn’t A Ringer

Did you know that Jake Gyllenhaal was almost in The Lord of The Rings? The key word in that sentence is “almost,” and we use that lightly, because his audition was actually one of the worst that director Peter Jackson witnessed… all because Jake didn’t realize he needed to speak in a British accent for the role of Frodo, who he was hoping to play. “I remember auditioning for The Lord of the Rings and going in and not being told that I needed a British accent,” Jake told The Hollywood Reporter. “I really do remember Peter Jackson saying to me, ‘You know that you have to do this in a British accent?’ We heard back… it was literally one of the worst auditions.”