Adam Brody actually needed this.
The actor, 45, sat down for The Hollywood Reporter‘s comedy actor roundtable on Wednesday alongside Ted Danson, Seth Rogen, Julio Torres, John Mulaney, and Jason Segel and revealed a role he auditioned for that he didn’t get.
“I really wanted ‘Blue’s Clues’ early on when I first moved to L.A.,” Brody admitted in a clip posted to TikTok.
Rogen, 43, requested, “And you fought for it?” to which the “Nobody Wants This” star responded, “I tried real hard, yeah.”
“It was like 1999, I auditioned for it, I wanted it, I didn’t get it,” Brody continued. “But I would’ve loved it. It’s a show for toddlers. But it’s all of those early ones.”
Seems that wasn’t the one main present “The O.C.” alum auditioned for.
Brody advised the desk he additionally tried out for the a part of Henry Parker on the WB drama “Dawson’s Creek.”
The function finally went to Michael Pitt.
“I read with Scott Speedman, sweating,” Brody confessed.
“Oh, they wanted pouty lips,” Torres, 38, cracked.
“Do you know the role?” Mulaney, 42, requested Torres.
“No,” he acknowledged. “I just know the actor.”
Rogen quipped: “He is pouty.”
“Blue’s Clues” debuted on Nick Jr. in 1996 with Steve Burns because the present’s host. After the actor, 51, left the animated collection in 2002, Donovan Patton took over. “Blue’s Clues” present host is Joshua Dela Cruz.
Nonetheless, all of it labored out for Brody, who landed the function of heartthrob Seth Cohen on “The O.C.” in 2003. The collection ran for 3 seasons till 2007 and starred Mischa Barton, Ben McKenzie, Rachel Bilson, Melinda Clarke and Peter Gallagher.
Within the 2024 e-book “Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History” by Rolling Stone’s TV critic Alan Sepinwall, Brody admitted he wasn’t thrilled with the fabric of the teenager drama in later seasons.
The actor stated that whereas he was “polite to everyone,” he nonetheless made it clear the place he stood whereas on set.
“I liked the directors and the crew. And I got on really well and I didn’t keep people waiting,” Brody confessed. “I would never scream or yell at anyone, or say anything f–king mean. But I think I very much let my distaste for the later episodes be known. I didn’t mask that at all and I’m sure I openly mocked it a bit. So I’m not proud of that.”
“I started to be creatively less interested,” he acknowledged. “I blame myself for a lack of professionalism, and a disrespect to the work. In terms of engagement as a whole, I’ll just say that they’re different shows, Season 1 and [the later seasons]. Had the quality been the quality of Season 1, I’m sure I would have been a lot more engaged… The quality of it and my engagement went hand in hand.”
Lately, Brody performs everyones favourite rabbi Noah, reverse Kristen Bell’s podcast host Joanne in “Nobody Wants This.” The Netflix romcom collection was an instantaneous hit and is at the moment filming Season 2.
“I think I was getting stopped on the street pretty much day after it came out and I was getting texts from anyone — my handyman, anyone in my life — in my phone,” Brody stated in regards to the present whereas on Leisure Weekly’s “Awardist” podcast. “I’ve never witnessed anything that felt quite as overnight and as pervasive as this.”
Teasing Season 2, Bell, 44, advised the podcast, “The world has been built out beautifully in a very grounded, realistic way. Because, look, you fall in love with someone and for a while it’s just you and them. The world doesn’t exist. And then slowly the world starts peeking in and you two have to coexist in the world that sometimes can be shocking.”
