‘Stranger Things’ Jamie Campbell Bower: ‘Dirty’ joke cost me ‘Harry Potter’
nypost.comIt was no laughing matter.“Stranger Things” star Jamie Campbell Bower, who plays lord of the “upside-down” Vecna in the Netflix series, has come a long way since he bombed his audition for the hero of the “Harry Potter” franchise — if only his penchant for naughty jokes hadn’t gotten the best of him.The 33-year-old actor revealed the blunder while appearing on Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast.As Bower tells it, the young actor had a meeting with the film’s first director, Chris Columbus, for which he was asked to prepare a joke.“I had just heard this joke about a fairy,” recalled Bower. “Like, the reason why the fairy sits on top of the Christmas tree.
And it’s a really, like, dirty joke, because it’s about the Christmas tree up somebody’s bottom.”The “Twilight” continued to describe how awkward thing got after the punchline flopped. “And I told this joke in the audition, and there was again, this sort of air of silence after I said it.
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