Listen: Eddie Redmayne Describes His "Catastrophically Bad" Audition For 'Star Wars 7'

Today the force is with fans around the world with the first trailer arriving for "Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens." And the J.J. Abrams directed sequel brings with it an entirely new cast to join the old school heroes for the next adventure in the saga. As you'll probably remember, no shortage of names were rumored for the movie as casting got underway, and it's likely many of those folks got phone calls to read for the movie. But for Eddie Redmayne, things didn't go well.

Recently stopping by the podcast Happy Sad Confused, the actor shared how things went pear shaped when he stepped in to audition for the movie.

“Recently my ‘Star Wars’ audition was pretty catastrophically bad. There’s this wonderful casting director called Nina Gold, who I absolutely love,” Redmayne shared. “I went in and did this scene, and after seven times of trying to play… [Gold] was like, ‘Got anything else, Eddie?’ I was like, ‘No, I want out.’ ‘I think we’re going to have to agree to...