Joe Jonas is opening about one specific audition that didn’t land him the position. The 33 year-old, who’s gearing up for the discharge of his subsequent movie Devotion, revealed that he had auditioned to play Peter Parker within the 2012 film, The Amazing Spider-Man, a job which finally went to Andrew Garfield. (Also learn: Jimmy Kimmel says Andrew Garfield was real-life Spider Man to avoid wasting him: ‘I swear to God this occurred…)
“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,” stated Joe on this week’s episode of the Just for Variety podcast. He additional added, “Obviously, he was the right one.” Opening up on not lacking the half even after auditioning, Joe stated, “In the moment, you’re destroyed or you’re defeated. But you realize this person was brilliant.” Joe additionally confessed that because the director was Marc Webb, who was a music video director, the singer thought it could favour on his facet. “But I remember that was a big thing at the time, going back for callbacks. And the director used to be a music video director, so I was like, ‘I got an in here,’ “
“But you know what? I love the process of auditioning and putting yourself out there and having to prove yourself,” stated the Grammy nominee. When additional requested whether or not the singer would placed on a Spiderman swimsuit, Joe hushed, “No, but I’m sure I had one that I would try on occasionally back in the day.”
Joe additionally admitted that though music grew to become his first calling, he had no alternative however to cease touring for the previous few years due to the pandemic. This time frame additionally gave him quite a lot of time to enhance his appearing abilities. The singer credited that he acquired large help from his spouse and Game of Thrones actor Sophie Turner on this regard. “When you have a wife like Sophie Turner, who is a phenomenal actress, [being] the one filming you and directing you through it, you got to bring your A-game,” he stated.