Jamie Dornan says he once downed whiskey before an audition …
NI actor Jamie Dornan has revealed he guzzled whiskey before an audition – and then threw it back up.
The Fifty Shades star told how he had an audition for a musical in Los Angeles and decided to calm his nerves by drinking a bottle of Jameson whiskey at 10am on an empty stomach, reports Irish Mirror[1].
The Holywood[2] man said: "I was in LA 13 years ago and I was auditioning for a musical and I can sing a bit. But you had to really sing and you had to sing, ‘I’ve been waiting for a girl like you,’ and it’s really f**king high.
"I had been driving around LA with my wife, then girlfriend, and I kept trying to practise the song. I was first up at 10am with a morning audition. I had heard whiskey was good for your vocal chords and for confidence. So I brought a quarter bottle of Jameson’s with me.
"I got into the Warner Bros. car park, and I thought, ‘I’ll do that’. This is before I had kids and 10am was quite early in those days. I hadn’t eaten. The first thing that was passing my lips was whiskey.
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"I drank it and immediately puked. It was all over the car door in the main car park with all these executives in golf buggies and I’m puking. I realised I hadn’t brought chewing gum or anything, so I walked into this audition smelling like whiskey and puke. The guys were into me and they kept me there for a long time and kept making me stay and sing."
But the 50 Shades of Grey actor failed to get the part.
Speaking on The Good, The Bad & The Rugby podcast, he said: "F**k off did I get the part? It was rough!"
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References
- ^ Irish Mirror (www.irishmirror.ie)
- ^ Holywood (www.belfastlive.co.uk)
- ^ Jamie Dornan on playing "a pretty fractured guy" in A Haunting In Venice (www.belfastlive.co.uk)
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