Your Favorite Actors’ Most Awkward Auditions, Revealed

Ryan Gosling Can Be Awkward?

Playing Noah in The Notebook was the role that officially sealed Ryan Gosling in as everyone’s celebrity crush, but as it turns out, the reason he got that role was because the director, Nick Cassavetes, saw him as anything but. If you’ve watched his audition tape on YouTube, you can attest to his awkwardness, but it only got worse behind the scenes. Nick invited Ryan over, and laid the news on him. “He was standing in his backyard, and he looked at me and said, ‘I want you to play this role because you’re not like the other young actors out there in Hollywood. You’re not handsome, you’re not cool, you’re just a regular guy who looks a bit nuts,'” Ryan said. Okay. Well, then.