Your Favorite Actors’ Most Awkward Auditions, Revealed

Bill Skarsgard, Clowning It Up

While talking to Entertainment Weekly last year, Bill Skarsgard opened up about why his audition for It was one of his strangest — and why that strange feeling started before he even got to the audition. First, he had to have his girlfriend help put his clown makeup on… and then he had to go in public. “I get into the car and had to drive across L.A. in this clown makeup,” he said. “There was something kind of humiliated and absurd about the whole thing. I’m an actor auditioning in Hollywood, and I’m driving with a clown face on.” Not to mention the fact that he also had to walk across the parking lot and practice his clown laugh while he was driving. Um, that’s scary.