The Spider-Man that just about was.
It’s no secret {that a} job in showbiz comes with its fair proportion of rejections, and now Joe Jonas has opened up about the way it feels to narrowly miss out on the function of your desires.
Speaking throughout an episode of the Just for Variety podcast this week, the Jonas Brothers bandmate revealed that he auditioned for the titular function in The Amazing Spider-Man. The film got here out in 2012 starring Emma Stone as Gwen Stacy and Andrew Garfield because the lead.
Andrew donned the go well with for a complete of three films, most just lately reprising the function in final 12 months’s Spider-Man: No Way Home, wherein he joined forces with previous and current Spideys, Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland.
Trying out for the long-lasting half is a notoriously rigorous process, with Tom, the present Spider-Man, having beforehand revealed that he submitted 5 self-tapes and auditioned eight occasions over the course of 5 months earlier than he was finally forged in 2015.
And regardless of being finest identified for his musical profession, Joe was wanting to audition, and recalled his pleasure throughout the prolonged casting course of.
“I remember years ago I was up for Spider-Man and I was so, so excited and it was the year Andrew Garfield got it. Obviously, he was the right one,” he revealed.
“I remember that was a big thing at the time, going back for callbacks,” he mentioned, explaining that he already had one foot within the door because of his connections with the movie’s director, Marc Webber, who had beforehand labored on music movies.
Looking again on the expertise, Joe mirrored on the difficulties that include rejection in Hollywood and the right way to overcome it, saying: “In the moment, you’re destroyed or you’re defeated. But you realize [the person who got the part] was brilliant.”
Regardless of the result, the singer mentioned he nonetheless beloved getting the possibility to develop as an actor throughout the casting course of.
“But you know what? I love the process of auditioning and putting yourself out there and having to prove yourself,” he mentioned. “It should never be a shoo-in for anyone.”
Funnily sufficient, on the time that auditions for the half had been being held in 2010, chatter about Joe turning into the following Spider-Man was rife amongst followers, with Demi Lovato even leaping on the bandwagon to development the hashtag: #joejonas4spiderman.
And quick ahead a decade, Joe has put the previous behind him and is targeted on his function within the model new film, Devotion.
Speaking about this auditioning course of, the 33-year-old gushed about enlisting the assistance of a tremendous appearing coach — who simply so occurs to be his spouse, Sophie Turner.
“I obviously love acting and it’s something I’ve always wanted to get back into. And it was just like any other audition process,” he mentioned. “Put myself on tape and called back on tape, met the director J.D. [Dillard], we spoke about the project and it went from there.”
“When you have a wife like Sophie Turner, who is a phenomenal actress, the one filming you and directing you through it, you got to bring your A-game,” he mentioned of engaged on self-tapes throughout the peak of the pandemic.
He continued: “She’s my toughest critic. Yes, I’m going to be a little nervous [but she’s] super helpful and I feel like what a great acting coach to walk me through this. And I do have her to thank.”