Whitney Cummings Recalls “Humiliating” Audition For Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’: “I Just Completely Disassociated”

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Whitney Cummings is recalling the “horror” audition she had for Francis Ford Coppola‘s Megalopolis. The comedian and host of Max’s Fast Friends game show recently said in an interview she had a “humiliating” audition for the epic science fiction film directed and written by Coppola. “This was such a core trauma for me,” Cummings said on the Good For You podcast.

Cummings said that she had prepared for the audition spending days memorizing lines and when she got to the audition, she noticed the vibes were off. “Everyone is so quiet.

There’s no vibe of, ‘We’re at an audition. Hey, what’s up? Hi, how are you? Nice to meet you,'” she recalled. “It’s just so awkward.

I go in, I’m like, ‘So, where do you want to start first?’ And he’s, like, ‘Oh no, no, we’re not going to do the scene.’ I was like, ‘OK, It’s three days of my life.’” The audition process was different and Coppola asked the actors to improvise scenes with Cummings adding, “He would just throw things at me.” Cummings said that one of the prompts was to bid farewell to her son going off to war using an English accent.