A few of you might know Kiersey Clemons from films like Dope, Flatliners (the 2017 model) and Disney’s live-action remake of Girl and the Tramp, whereas others could have seen her on TV reveals like Clear, New Woman and the currently-running Fairfax, which may be streamed with an Amazon Prime Video subscription. It’s protected to say, although, that lots of people shall be launched to her later this 12 months in The Flash, considered one of 4 upcoming DC films slated for this 12 months. Because it seems, Clemons additionally had the chance to affix the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, however opposite to her preliminary perception, her audition didn’t go effectively… in any respect.
Forward of The Flash’s launch, and whereas plugging her newest film, Amazon’s Any person I Used To Know, on The Jennifer Hudson Present, Kiersey Clemons recalled how her try to attain a task in one of many Pirates of the Caribbean films failed miserably. She began off by explaining how certain she was on the time that she’d nailed her audition, saying:
Principally, I went in, and I used to be so assured. I don’t know for those who’ve ever had an audition the place you’re like, ‘Oh my God… I obtained this within the bag. That is it!’ And it didn’t go that means.
Whereas Kiersey Clemons specify which Pirates of the Caribbean film she auditioned for, it’s possible she was referring to 2017’s Useless Males Inform No Tales, which noticed Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow going up in opposition to Javier Bardem’s Armando Salazar. In one other universe, Clemons might need scored that function, and that may have taken her performing profession down a special path. However that’s not what occurred in our actuality. So what went fallacious? Apparently Clemons misjudged how the character she was auditioning for was presupposed to behave. As she put it:
I went in, I assumed the character was presupposed to sort of be a bit loopy and also you didn’t know what she was going to do or say subsequent, so I went in with that power, after which I don’t hear again from my agent. So I’m like, ‘What occurred? The place’s my provide at?’ And he or she was like, ‘It’s not going ahead, the casting director requested, truly, for those who had been okay.’ [laughs] Like if I used to be effectively… And I used to be like, ‘No, the character is unwell. I simply did a very good job.’
The Flash
Director: Andy Muschietti
Author: Christina Hodson
Solid: Ezra Miller, Kiersey Clemons, Michael Keaton, Ben Affleck, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon, Antje Traue, Ron Livingston and Maribel Verdú
Kiersey Clemons completed her story by sharing essentially the most embarrassing a part of all of it: she wished an opportunity to redo her audition. She obtained that probability, however when she entered the room, the very first thing she exclaimed was, “You’ll be able to’t eliminate me!” That will need to have been the ultimate straw since Clemons was nowhere to be seen in a Pirates of the Caribbean film. Maybe that’s for the very best although given how the franchise has been at a standstill since Useless Males Inform No Tales critically and commercially underwhelmed. Efforts are underway to get Pirates of the Caribbean 6 off the bottom, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer has stated he hopes the Margot Robbie-led spinoff can transfer ahead too.
Fortuitously for Kiersey Clemons, she was recruited to a special blockbuster franchise, and whereas her first outing as Iris West was reduce from Justice League’s theatrical launch, it was added again in for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. The four-hour reduce confirmed Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen utilizing his tremendous pace to rescue Iris from a site visitors accident. Whereas Clemons shall be again as Iris for The Flash, particular particulars on how she suits into the story haven’t been revealed but.
The Flash races into theaters on June 16, and Kiersey Clemons was happy to listen to in regards to the reward that DC Studios co-head James Gunn gave it. If you happen to now end up within the temper to rewatch the Pirates of the Caribbean films, Disney+ subscribers can simply stream these.
