At 22, Taylor Swift was serenading us with new songs from her “Red” album and dipping her toes into the world of performing. During an look on BBC One’s “The Graham Norton Show” on Friday, Swift, joined by Eddie Redmayne, shared the story of her “nightmare” “Les Misérables” audition.
“I as soon as died in [Redmayne’s] arms in a display check for ‘Les Mis,'” Swift recalled. “There’s loads that individuals do not find out about this story. Basically, I used to be up for 2 roles in ‘Les Mis,’ and I’d accomplished a number of auditions and gone to New York and no matter. I believe it had been established that I had extra of a glance of Cosette however I had the vary, vocally, of Éponine, so it was established that I used to be there for a great time, not a very long time.”
“I used to be like, ‘This has instantly turn out to be a nightmare for me.'”
While Swift was pretty sure by that time that she would not be supplied both function within the movie, she was fast to just accept an invite to London to do one last audition alongside Redmayne. “I used to be like, ‘This looks as if an expertise I need to have in my life,'” she mentioned earlier than turning to Redmayne. “You’re like considered one of my favourite actors. You’re so ridiculously gifted.”
When she arrived for the audition, the crew had been fast to interrupt some unhealthy information to her. “They’re like, ‘We’re really going to color your enamel brown for this.’ And I’m like, ‘So you are going to do this after I meet Eddie Redmayne, proper? That’s not one thing you do earlier than? I get to fulfill individuals and then you definately do the brown enamel?'” To her disappointment, the make-up chair was her first cease, and the wonder group remodeled her into Éponine, full with circles beneath her eyes to make her seem as if she was “close to loss of life.” She continued, “I used to be like, ‘This has instantly turn out to be a nightmare for me.'”
Swift mentioned she was reserved upon assembly the actor, however Redmayne mentioned their preliminary assembly was equally awkward for him. “You walked in as a Nineteenth-century avenue urchin, and I used to be not anticipating that,” Redmayne recalled, including that he was targeted extra on his breath through the display check than Swift’s look. “I had simply been to Pizza Express beforehand, and I had had some garlic dough balls. I believed we had been going to be singing off of one another, however that they had us — additionally, it was so bizarre as a result of Taylor was dressed totally as Éponine and I used to be in my monitor swimsuit — on the ground singing candy nothings to one another, and all I knew is I had simply had garlic bread.”
Laughing, the “Anti-Hero” singer mentioned she was relieved to listen to she wasn’t the one one feeling embarrassed on the time. “You had been weeping, and I simply thought it was due to how I regarded . . . It’s good to listen to we had been each struggling in that second.”
The function of Éponine finally went to Samantha Barks, whereas Cosette was performed by Amanda Seyfried, however Swift has since starred in a handful of movies, together with 2019’s “Cats” with Jennifer Hudson, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Judi Dench, Jason Derulo, and extra. Watch Swift inform her full audition story above.