A few of you might know Kiersey Clemons from motion pictures like Dope, Flatliners (the 2017 model) and Disney’s live-action remake of Woman and the Tramp, whereas others might have seen her on TV reveals like Clear, New Lady and the currently-running Fairfax, which might be streamed with an Amazon Prime Video subscription. It’s protected to say, although, that lots of people will probably be launched to her later this yr in The Flash, one in all 4 upcoming DC motion pictures slated for this yr. 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 properly… in any respect.
Forward of The Flash’s launch, and whereas plugging her newest film, Amazon’s Anyone I Used To Know, on The Jennifer Hudson Present, Kiersey Clemons recalled how her try to attain a job in one of many Pirates of the Caribbean motion pictures failed miserably. She began off by explaining how positive she was on the time that she’d nailed her audition, saying:
Mainly, I went in, and I used to be so assured. I don’t know should you’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 approach.
Whereas Kiersey Clemons specify which Pirates of the Caribbean film she auditioned for, it’s probably she was referring to 2017’s Useless Males Inform No Tales, which noticed Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow going up towards Javier Bardem’s Armando Salazar. In one other universe, Clemons may need scored that position, and that might 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 speculated to behave. As she put it:
I went in, I assumed the character was speculated to form of be just a little loopy and also you didn’t know what she was going to do or say subsequent, so I went in with that vitality, after which I don’t hear again from my agent. So I’m like, ‘What occurred? The place’s my provide at?’ And she or he was like, ‘It’s not going ahead, the casting director requested, really, should you have been okay.’ [laughs] Like if I used to be properly… 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 needed an opportunity to redo her audition. She obtained that probability, however when she entered the room, the very first thing she exclaimed was, “You may’t do away with me!” That should have been the ultimate straw since Clemons was nowhere to be seen in a Pirates of the Caribbean film. Maybe that’s for the most effective 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 mentioned 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 lower from Justice League’s theatrical launch, it was added again in for Zack Snyder’s Justice League. The four-hour lower confirmed Ezra Miller’s Barry Allen utilizing his tremendous pace to rescue Iris from a visitors accident. Whereas Clemons will probably 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. When you now end up within the temper to rewatch the Pirates of the Caribbean motion pictures, Disney+ subscribers can simply stream these.