Dylan O’Brien Recalls ‘Really Bad’ Audition for Frozen 2

Dylan O’Brien is trying again at his audition for Frozen 2, which didn’t essentially go as deliberate.

The Saturday Night time actor not too long ago made an look on Late Night time With Seth Meyers, the place the host requested him about his failed audition for the 2019 animated sequel, which noticed Kristen Bell and Idina Menzel return as sisters Anna and Elsa, respectively.

O’Brien stated he didn’t go into the audition with excessive hopes of touchdown the position “as a result of I knew that I in all probability wasn’t going to get it.” The actor didn’t disclose which character he auditioned for.

“They’re searching for multitalented, multi-hyphenate individuals who can act and sing,” he instructed Seth Meyers of the musical movie. “And I didn’t examine, to be trustworthy, in all probability both.”

The Teen Wolf alum acknowledged that he “can’t sing,” however determined to audition as a result of he doesn’t “all the time really feel like an actual actor.” Nonetheless, Meyers questioned how lengthy it took the casting director to additionally notice singing wasn’t one in every of O’Brien’s prime abilities.

“This poor lady,” the actor stated. “I keep in mind, truly — this can be a particular element — she requested me, painfully, if I might get to the refrain as a result of she wanted to see if I had a sure vary.” O’Brien admitted he was “swimming within the first verse slightly bit,” however finally “went greater,” per the girl’s request, and “it was actually dangerous.”

“I knew. She knew. It’s okay,” he quipped, however Meyers requested in response, “Did she know you knew?”

“I feel so, as a result of when she stated to me, ‘Okay, okay’… She stated two ‘okays.’ I’ll always remember it,” The Maze Runner actor recalled. “After which she stated, ‘Thanks for coming in. I feel we’d in all probability want a little bit of a stronger singer,’ and I used to be already simply nodding, going, ‘Yeah, I do know.’ I used to be like, ‘Thanks for having me.’”

O’Brien added that general, the audition was a constructive expertise. “I actually solely keep in mind it fondly,” he stated, earlier than playfully telling Meyers, “After which I’m glad that’s what they selected so that you can ask me about.” 

“We needed you to have closure. Don’t you see, Dylan?” the host quipped, to which the actor responded, “It’s made me snug, truly. I’m critical!”