Disney Star Reveals He Bombed Audition for Blockbuster Film
The Jonas Brother revealed he had sought a role in a major Disney flick.
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Disney’s Frozen might have had a different star voicing its male lead if Nick Jonas hadn’t botched his audition. Camp Rock’s Nick Jonas explained on Tuesday’s episode of the Hey Jonas! podcast, hosted by him and his brothers, Joe and Kevin, that he threw his hat in the ring for the role of Kristoff in the hit 2013 animated movie. “I went in for Kristoff,” he told guests Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, and Josh Gad, who had voiced the roles of Anna, Elsa, and Olaf, respectively. “I went in, and they said, ‘OK, what are you going to be singing today?’ I said, ‘Oh, I don’t know.’ They said, ‘What do you mean you don’t know?’ They’re like, ‘Do you have your sheet music?’ And I said, ‘No, no one told me I had...’ and so I just said, ‘Can you play something from,’ I don’t know what I said, some musical theater song. And I bombed the audition. It was terrible.” Jonathan Groff got the role of Kristoff, whom Nick said he loved. “But I do think it would have been better to cast me,” he joked.
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