Kate Winslet has shared her recollections of Robert Downey Jr.’s audition for The Vacation, which she has described as “dreadful”.
The actress was showing on The Tonight Present when host Jimmy Fallon introduced up the audition, for which he was additionally current. “I bear in mind it extraordinarily properly, I actually do,” Winslet mentioned.
On the time, Winslet had already been forged in her position, however Fallon and Downey Jr. have been competing for the position that ultimately went to Jude Regulation.
“We have been advised it was only a studying,” Winslet continued. “I believed it was only a studying, like a enjoyable studying of the script. I didn’t comprehend it was an audition for the half. I’m so sorry you didn’t get it.”
“Robert Downey Jr. then did an English accent however I believed it was an Australian accent,” she added. “I believed, ‘That’s unhealthy. That’s not going to work. Who’s going to inform him that sounds dreadful?’”
Within the movie, Winslet and Cameron Diaz play two lovelorn ladies from reverse sides of the Atlantic who organize a house swap for the Christmas interval. Diaz’s character Amanda falls for Regulation’s e book editor Graham, whereas Winslet’s Iris sparks a relationship with Jack Black’s movie composer Miles.
Downey himself disclosed final yr that Winslet roasted him for having the “worst British accent” ever within the audition.
In an interview on The Howard Stern Present, the Iron Man star additionally recalled going to the audition with Fallon, saying that they each sensed that Regulation was already the frontrunner for the position.
“We each acquired referred to as in simply as seat fillers,” Downey mentioned. “[Meyers] wanted somebody to learn with the gals and we’re sitting there going, ‘It’s about to occur for us’. And I used to be like, ‘I’ve acquired to have a greater English accent than Jude Regulation at this level.’”
“And Winslet mentioned, ‘That’s the worst British accent I’ve ever heard.’”
The movie, which has change into a Christmas custom for a lot of followers, made $205 million worldwide on its launch, in opposition to a finances of $85 million.
Winslet is presently starring in The Regime, an HBO political satire during which she performs a dictator of a fictional Central European nation.
