New York: It seems that America’s Sweetheart Julia Roberts exuded star quality even when she went for her first audition clad in baagy jeans and an ill fitted T shirt.
The casting agents who launched the careers of Tom Cruise, Leonardo DiCaprio, John Cusack, Matt Damon and many others say future stars share a certain something that can be seen early on.
"I think that when someone has that special quality and it meets with the right part, an explosion happens," Jane Jenkins, co-author with Janet Hirshenson of A Star Is Found (Harcourt), their memoir of casting movies like The Da Vinci Code, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Home Alone, among other, says.
In the book, Jenkins recalls how Julia Roberts blew an audition for Ron Howard's Willow, reports the New York Daily News.
"I liked her spunk and wanted to get her on tape, but she could only come in on a Saturday. I was willing to give up an hour or two of my day off - until I found myself waiting in my office with no Julia.
" Her car had died. A year later, her agent tried again, this time for Mystic Pizza. "Sure," Jenkins told her, "if you promise she won't have car problems."
Roberts, then 19, showed up in baggy jeans and an oversized shirt. "Beneath the sloppy clothes, I could sense an exuberance, a warmth, an unself-conscious sexuality ... someone who could show us a working-class girl reaching desperately for the glamour ... she knew she deserved, but didn't quite know how to attain," Jenkins said.
"To this day, I couldn't tell you how I knew Roberts had that special quality, but it was definitely there," he added.
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