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11-07-2022, 08:35 PM
https://www.looper.com/1089193/mila-kunis-totally-bombed-her-beverly-hills-90210-audition/
Mila Kunis froze up during the audition
Mila Kunis told Vanity Fair (https://youtu.be/KWIyEWmIPCc?t=95) that as a teenager, she loved "Beverly Hills, 90210." (https://www.looper.com/994339/the-story-behind-the-gut-wrenching-the-next-fifty-years-episode-of-beverly-hills-90210/) So getting a callback for the teen drama was very exciting news. However, when she returned for a second audition, "They didn't tell me that Jason Priestley, who was directing the episode, was going to be in the room."
The young Priestley was a heartthrob figure for many young people who watched "Beverly Hills, 90210" (via Everything Zoomer (https://www.everythingzoomer.com/arts-entertainment/2017/11/17/jason-priestley/)). So when Kunis saw him in the room with her, she didn't have the best reaction to the surprise. "I froze. I froze, guys! Okay? I choked. And I was like, '*gasp*'" (per Vanity Fair).
Of course, stunned silence doesn't make for the best audition tape, and Kunis lost the part. But the actress always went in with low expectations, figuring, "Who cares? I'm never gonna get it, but it's gonna be fun."
Instead, Kunis would join the cast of a very different teen-centered series, "That '70's Show," where she'd meet her future husband, Ashton Kutcher, and begin the next steps of a major film and television career. Who knows? Maybe blowing the "Beverly Hills" audition was the best thing that could have happened to her.
Mila Kunis froze up during the audition
Mila Kunis told Vanity Fair (https://youtu.be/KWIyEWmIPCc?t=95) that as a teenager, she loved "Beverly Hills, 90210." (https://www.looper.com/994339/the-story-behind-the-gut-wrenching-the-next-fifty-years-episode-of-beverly-hills-90210/) So getting a callback for the teen drama was very exciting news. However, when she returned for a second audition, "They didn't tell me that Jason Priestley, who was directing the episode, was going to be in the room."
The young Priestley was a heartthrob figure for many young people who watched "Beverly Hills, 90210" (via Everything Zoomer (https://www.everythingzoomer.com/arts-entertainment/2017/11/17/jason-priestley/)). So when Kunis saw him in the room with her, she didn't have the best reaction to the surprise. "I froze. I froze, guys! Okay? I choked. And I was like, '*gasp*'" (per Vanity Fair).
Of course, stunned silence doesn't make for the best audition tape, and Kunis lost the part. But the actress always went in with low expectations, figuring, "Who cares? I'm never gonna get it, but it's gonna be fun."
Instead, Kunis would join the cast of a very different teen-centered series, "That '70's Show," where she'd meet her future husband, Ashton Kutcher, and begin the next steps of a major film and television career. Who knows? Maybe blowing the "Beverly Hills" audition was the best thing that could have happened to her.