Reese Witherspoon reveals she forgot her lines when she read with Robert De Niro for Cape Fear at 14
dailymail.co.ukReese Witherspoon revealed that one of her first auditions as a teenager was with Oscar winner Robert De Niro.The 46-year-old actress appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday wearing a little black dress where she recalled her audition for the 1991 Martin Scorsese film Cape Fear when she was 14.'I remember one of the very first auditions I ever had was with Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese for a movie called Cape Fear,' said Reese.The Big Little Lies star added, 'I didn't get it.
I'm not in that movie because I got so scared when I walked in the room; I didn't know who Robert De Niro was, so I was standing outside talking to the receptionist, and she was like, "You know he's the most important actor of our time right?"'This caused the young 14-year-old Reese to get very nervous and forget her lines.
Her first epic fail: Reese revealed that on one of her very first auditions as a teenager, she forgot her lines as she auditioned for Cape Fear opposite Robert De Niro He remembered that audition: Reese explained that he had to finish the lines for her and when she auditioned for him again ten years later he said, 'I remember you; you're the one who couldn't say the word'She explained, 'He had to finish the lines for me.
And then I auditioned for him ten years later, and I thought, "He's never going to remember that I bricked that audition," and he was like, "I remember you; you're the one who couldn't say the word."'The Legally Blonde star also revealed that as a teenager, she used to park the Porsche belonging to Denzel Washington as part of a school internship. 'Yeah.
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