Elle Fanning Shares Her Worst Audition: "I Passed Out" | 'The Beguiled' | Cannes 2017 - video Dailymotion

Fanning, who stars in Sofia Coppola's 'The Beguiled,' auditioned for a Jessica Chastain film, but passed out in the audition.

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00:00Have you ever had a terrible audition?

00:02Yeah, well, the one I passed out in was pretty terrible.

00:05I didn't get it.

00:06I think that was a movie with Jessica Chastain, too.

00:08I remember, I was really young.

00:10I was young, and she wasn't kind of as big as she is now.

00:14Was it with her, the audition?

00:15Yeah, no, it wasn't with, she wasn't in it, no, no, she wasn't in it.

00:18I passed out during, yeah, yeah.

00:21And they're like, okay.

00:23It was, I think it was just a lot of, I don't know, I had to learn, it was like a long scene.

00:28It was like a lot of things going on in my head.

00:31It was just intense, and I just passed out.

00:34I didn't ever know about you, because you seem fearless when you're working.

00:38I know, yeah.

00:38The situation sounds unnatural.

00:39Yeah, you get like, I think you get amped up.

00:42You're like, oh, I'm strong, and then it's like, oh, no.

00:44And I was young, too, so, yeah.