Whitney Cummings is recalling her uncommon audition with Francis Ford Coppola.
On a Dec. 7 episode of her “Good for You” podcast, the comic stated she studied her traces “for days” earlier than attempting out for Coppola’s “Megalopolis,” a science fiction epic that the legendary director launched earlier this 12 months.
“I go in. I’m in hair and makeup for three and a half hours,” she stated. “It was, like, Jheri curls on my forehead that were glued down.”
Cummings stated the audition was shot on movie and jested that an old-school digital camera operator labored from “under a black sheet” as smoke was emitted by one thing like flash powder.
“He’s shooting it on film, fine!” Cummings joked of Coppola earlier than recalling the environment on set.
“Everyone is so quiet,” she stated. “There’s no vibe of, like, ‘We’re at an audition. Hey, what’s up? Hi, how are you? Nice to meet you!’ It’s just so awkward. And I go in and … he’s like, ‘Oh, no, no, no, we’re not going to do the scene.’ And I was like, ‘OK, that’s three days of my life.’”
Cummings stated Coppola as a substitute determined to “just throw things” at her to improvise, giving her instructions like “In an English accent, say goodbye to your son going to war” and “Now your husband is leaving you for your sister. Australian accent — go.”
“I did the show ‘Punk’d,’” she famous, referring to the prank TV sequence. “I was like, if I’m being punk’d, this is actually genius, because I disassociated the entire thing. … I started glazing over, and then he was like, ‘That was great.’”
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Cummings stated she was “embarrassed” by the audition, however stated Coppola despatched her off with “a signed copy of his new book” and a bottle of wine from his vineyard.
She finally didn’t seem in “Megalopolis,” which was a box-office flop and opened to poor critiques.
The drama facilities on the battle between an architect and the corrupt mayor of a fictional metropolis known as New Rome, with a star-studded solid that features Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Shia LaBeouf, Laurence Fishburne and Aubrey Plaza.
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Manufacturing was affected by accusations of unprofessional conduct by Coppola, with Selection alleging that the director was seen “trying to kiss young female extras” in video footage from the set. Coppola known as that reporting false and sued the outlet for libel in September, searching for a minimum of $15 million in damages.
