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Highlights

• Taylor Swift's audition for Les Misérables was a nightmare due to her uncomfortable costume and appearance.
• Despite knowing she wouldn't get the role, Swift still chose to audition for the experience and to work with Eddie Redmayne.
• Swift later landed a role in Cats without having to audition, as the director was confident in her talents.

Taylor Swift and Eddie Redmayne opened up about their awkward audition for 2012's Les Misérables. The global pop icon auditioned for the 2012 musical movie and was invited to audition in front of The Theory Of Everything star. She admitted the auditioning process was a "nightmare."

"Basically, I was up for two roles – I had the look of Cosette and the range vocally of Eponine, so it was established I was there for a good time but not for a long time, I wasn’t going to get the role," she revealed during an appearance on The Graham Norton Show. Despite knowing she wasn't going to get the role, the 'Shake It Off' songstress still chose to audition.

Why Taylor Swift's Les Misérables Audition With Eddie Redmayne Went So Wrong

Taylor Swift, despite not being confident she would land a role in the 2012 musical, which starred Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, still auditioned. She explained on the British chat show how she ended up auditioning opposite Eddie Redmayne, someone she describes as one of her favorite actors. "I thought, ‘This isn’t an experience I am going to get again in my life,’ so I said yes.”

"When I got there, they put me in full 19th Century street urchin costume and told me they were going to paint my teeth brown and I was like, 'You are going to do that after I meet Eddie Redmayne right', But no, they made me look like death and it became a nightmare. When I met Eddie I didn’t open my mouth to speak!"

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Taylor Swift was joined on The Graham Norton Show by Eddie Redmayne, who was promoting his movie The Good Nurse. Redmayne admitted: “I thought we would just be singing off each other – I didn’t know we would be in each other’s arms.”

To make matters worse, Redmayne was dressed in normal clothes whilst Swift was made to look like a dying 19th century woman. The Danish Girl star had his own concerns during this audition. "My overriding memory of it is that I had had pizza and garlic dough balls beforehand, and all I could think about was my garlic breath while Taylor was dying in my arms, and I was trying to show emotion."

Hearing his side of the story, Swift laughed, “It’s nice to hear we were both struggling in that moment.”

Taylor Swift missed out on a role in Les Misérables which grossed $435 million worldwide and earned eight Oscar nominations. She later appeared in another musical by the same director, Cats.

"I didn’t get it, but it was such an amazing experience just doing the screen test. And I was obviously like, ‘I’m not going to get this,’ because the other girl was amazing and was on the West End — Samantha Barks; she’s incredible and she fully killed the role and was amazing. … I just had a good time doing the screen tests."

How Taylor Swift Landed Her Role In Cats

The director of Cats, Tom Hooper, was so sure of Taylor Swift's talents, she didn't even have to audition for a role in Cats. "When I was approached this time, it was a straight-up offer," the 'Blank Space' singer said. She had previously screen-tested for Hooper when he was casting Les Misérables.

“She had auditioned for Les Mis. She rather brilliantly auditioned for Éponine. I didn’t cast her, but I got very close to it,” Hooper, 47, told Vulture in a 2019 interview. He explained that because of that audition, he thought of the singer for the role of Bombalurina in the critically-hated musical.

“Ultimately, I couldn’t quite believe Taylor Swift was a girl people would overlook,” Hooper stated when he shared why he chose Samantha Barks for Les Misérables instead of Swift. “So it didn’t quite feel right for her for the most flattering reason.”

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Taylor Swift signed onto Cats quickly as she was "curious to work on a musical."

Tom Hooper, who also directed The Kings Speech, explained how Taylor Swift landed the role. “When [Cats] came up, I wrote to her and just said, ‘Would you like to meet? Would you like to see the world I’m creating?’ And I did a presentation. Eve Stewart had these wonderful paintings she did of the world. I had a ten-second clip of a dancer with fur, lifelike. That was my pitch. She loved it and was very gracious and really supportive from then on.”

Taylor Swift's Acting Future Is Uncertain

Taylor Swift has dabbled in acting throughout her career. She made her acting debut in 2009 in the television show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and her film debut in the 2010 movie Valentine’s Day.

Whilst promoting the Cats, Swift admitted, "Acting is something I've been fascinated by my entire life."

Although Swift reads scripts, she admits she struggles to find the time to read scripts and make her acting dreams a reality. "I would want to have the time, the ability and the love for something, the love for a character to where I could really make that commitment to it."

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More recently, the 'All Too Well' singer has been left certain of her future in Hollywood. “I have no idea [if I will keep acting]. When I was younger, I used to get questions like, ‘Where do you see yourself in 10 years?’ I’d try to answer. As I get older, I’m learning that wisdom is learning how dumb you are compared to how much you are going to know.”

In recent years, Taylor Swift has taken to being a director. Cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, who worked on Greta Gerwig's Barbie, praised the singer as a director. “I must say the stuff I’ve done with her, the music videos, she’s been extraordinary. Someone who didn’t grow up as a director – she’s a musician and a singer and wonderful at that – to see that she understands cinema and understands storytelling, she understands how to tell the story with a camera and she’s great with the technical aspects as well.”

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