HE HASN’T even been in the business a decade yet, but Chris Pine has had his fair share of horror auditions.
I had one casting director stop me and say, ‘All right, now do it again and make me believe you’,” he recalls with a traumatised laugh.
“That was half of what she said, but also the tone that I can’t really recreate. It was just about the most miserable feeling on the planet.
“I just interpreted that as like, ‘OK, stop sucking, and try to be talented’.
“At that point you’ve lost, at that point it becomes not about the material at all, it becomes about your personal beef, and that’s never what it should be.
“The audition room is one of the most awkward, uncomfortable places to be, period. I don’t even know how producers do it, quite honestly.”
But an actor’s gotta do what an actor’s gotta do.
“Yup,” agrees Pine, “par for the course. Born masochist.”
Olivia Wilde is DreamWorks’ kind of people. The actress, who stars in the studio’s forthcoming summer tentpole Cowboys & Aliens, has just been cast in Welcome to People. She joins Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks in the family drama about a businessman (Pine) who returns home after his estranged father’s death and discovers that he has an alcoholic sister (Banks) with a 12-year-old son. Wilde will play Hannah, the Pine character’s girlfriend.
