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Broadway News Patrick Stewart, Cobie Smulders, Bryan Cranston, and More Share Worst Audition Stories These actors talk waiting rooms, chemistry tests, and their first commercials on Late Night With Seth Meyers.

It鈥檚 commonplace for actors to go on late-night talk shows to promote their latest project: a movie, a TV show, a theatre production. While those short chats often cover an actor鈥檚 success, Seth Meyers wanted to know about the more embarrassing moments.

鈥淓very actor, no matter how successful they are, now every one of them has had terrible auditions,鈥� said Late Night host Meyers.

In the compilation video above, Tony nominee Patrick Stewart, Tony winner Bryan Cranston, Cobie Smulders, and Christopher Meloni share their 鈥渢rue鈥� thoughts on the audition process鈥攆rom tips and tricks to horrible audition stories, from memories of their first commercial to their first screen test.

鈥淲ell, first of all, bring the right script,鈥� Stewart said with a laugh. 鈥淚鈥檝e made that mistake.鈥�

Stewart last appeared on Broadway performing Waiting for Godot and No Man鈥檚 Land in rep with Ian McKellan. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Macbeth in 2008. Cranston, a Tony winner for his Broadway debut as President Lyndon B. Johnson in All The Way, will bow in a new adaptation of Network, directed by Tony-winning director Ivo Van Hove, at the National鈥檚 Lyttleton Theatre in London this November. Smulders recently made her Broadway debut in Present Laughter opposite Tony winner Kevin Kline. Meloni has yet to appear on Broadway but is well known to television viewers as Detective Elliot Stabler from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and now to Netflix subscribers in the reboot of Wet Hot American Summer.

First Look at Present Laughter on Broadway

 
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