Celebrities The boys of One Direction are expanding their activities. After all Harry Styles (25) his acting debut was in ‘Dunkirk’ by Christopher Nolan, has now also Liam Payne (25) let us know that he has plenty of auditions to do. And not the least: as if he is doing a test for Steven Spielberg (72).
Liam Payne trying to acteervoetsporen of his former One Direction band member Harry Styles to join. He told in the radio show Capital Breakfast’ that he already had a few auditions, behind the back. He said: “The first thing I ever auditioned for was the remake of ‘West Side Story’, by Steven Spielberg. On my last birthday, I got a message that said: ‘On Thursday, you need SS to meet.’ So I could for him to audition, which really was crazy.”
Unfortunately, it was Liam, the role is not. “No, I got the role, but I was at the last five people. I am still very happy with it because it was difficult – it was going to be a big role. In addition, it was also the first audition I ever did. I sent four tapes, and I managed to get Steven Spielberg to meet. That was great!”
The audition itself turned out to be really stressful. “It was a pretty cold room, I’m not lying. The audition was in a sort of department store, with curtains was closed, and Spielberg just came in and called out ” Liam!’. That was too crazy for words. It was the craziest thing I ever have done in my life. But he was really nice. It was great, it is a very fun process and I found it fun to do.”
Finally got Ansel Elgort for the role of Tony, Liam, also auditioned for did. Fortunately, the former One Directioner is still a singing career to fall back on. In 2018, he brought, among others, the songs ‘For You’ (with Rita Ora) and ‘Polaroid’ (with Jonas Blue and Lennon Stella), who is also with us in the charts ended up.
