When revealing his audition experiences as part of Elle’s “First Thing With” video series, Penn Badgley shared some insight into the process as a whole and why his efforts didn’t pay off for The WB’s “Charmed.” After stating how the show was nearing his hundredth line reading for acting jobs, the actor added, “But they all feel like your first in some way. I just gave a terrible line reading, a terrible, terrible line reading. Because the line was terrible, frankly, and my heart was not in it. I didn’t want to be there.”
He continued by expressing how of the numerous scribes in the room with him, one of the writers started laughing when he read the dialogue. This gave Badgley the impression that even the screenwriter didn’t want to be there either. Sometimes in the world of acting, giving it your all is not always the best approach. It is difficult to know exactly what it is that executives or directors are looking for in the part. But when one of the architects of a show’s narrative finds the material to be unintentionally humorous, maybe the part was a joke to begin with. Oddly enough, Penn Badgley would go on to have several close calls and misses when it came to further auditions.
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