Nick Jonas has admitted that things didn’t quite go his way when he tried out for a role in a beloved Disney movie.
The chart-topping singer spoke about the embarrassing moment on the latest edition of the Hey Jonas! Podcast, which he co-hosts with his brothers Joe and Kevin Jonas.
During the conversation, the pop trio were joined by Frozen voice actors Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel and Josh Gad, when Nick revealed he had auditioned to play Kristoff, the rugged iceman voiced by Jonathan Groff, in the animated film and its numerous spin-offs, only to “bomb” in the room.
“I went in and they said, ‘Okay, what are you going to be singing today?’,” he recalled. “I said, ‘Oh, I don’t know’.
“They were like, ‘Do you have your sheet music?’ And I said, ‘No, no one told me I had [to bring any]’, and so I just said, ‘Can you play something from…?’ I don’t know what I said, some musical theatre song.”
Nick joked that as much as he loves Jonathan Groff: “I do think it would have been better to cast me.”
Despite his failed audition, Nick assured his guests he didn’t “spite-watch” Frozen and “did enjoy it” when he saw it for the first time.
Upon its release in 2013, Frozen went on to become a global phenomenon, winning two Oscars, sparking a popular sequel (with two more in the pipeline) and eventually became the fifth highest-grossing film of all time.
Meanwhile, this isn’t the first Nick has admitted he has missed out on a huge film opportunity.
As recently as May, on the band’s podcast, he explained how he messed up a meeting with the producer of a “big movie” after he failed to realise he was also the director.
“I asked him, ‘Oh, and who’s directing?’ and his response was, ‘Well, me.’ I wanted to die inside at that moment,” the Jealous singer explained.
“I think it went really well. I was very happy coming out of the room. I’m a huge fan of the show, and that’s a role I always thought it would be fun to play,” the Jonas Brothers singer admitted.
Fortunately, it’s not all been bad news for Nick’s acting career.
He has starred in recent music drama Power Ballad with Paul Rudd, appeared in Roland Emmerich’s historical war action Midway and had a role in the Jumanji movie Welcome To The Jungle, as well as its sequel The Next Level.
