Imagine Elizabeth Olsen commanding dragons as Daenerys Targaryen. Sounds wild, right? Turns out, it almost happened—or at least, she tried. In a throwback revelation on The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, Olsen spilled the tea about her not-so-stellar audition for the hit HBO series Game of Thrones. And, well, it was far from fiery.
“I auditioned for Game of Thrones,” Olsen confessed, taking us back to a tiny room in New York, where the assistant casting director, a camera, and a script awaited. The scene in question? Khaleesi’s iconic speech, fresh out of the flames in season one. Sounds epic? Not quite. “It was awful,” Olsen admitted with a laugh. “I didn’t get a callback.”
This wasn’t your average audition. The team wasn’t even sure whether Daenerys needed a British accent. So, naturally, Olsen tried it both ways. Double the effort, double the cringe. “It was the most awkward audition I’d ever had,” she told Vulture back in 2019. Picture a monologue meant to rally thousands being delivered to a single camera. Ouch!
But don’t think Elizabeth Olsen is bitter. If anything, the experience left her with a hilarious “bad audition” story and a soft spot for Game of Thrones. She even admitted to being completely hooked on the series, thanks in part to one Jon Snow. “I’m just so deep in Game of Thrones that all I can think about is Kit Harington,” she once said. Who can blame her?
But hey, no hard feelings. Olsen’s a rare actor—she actually likes auditioning. “You’re your own worst enemy in an audition,” she said. “Either you’re ready, or you’re not, and after that? It’s out of your hands.” Spoken like someone who knows how to roll with the punches (or, in this case, the dragon-less rejections).
And look where she ended up. No Iron Throne, sure, but Olsen went full Scarlet Witch and owned the MCU. Her turn in WandaVision? Total game-changer. Magic, mind-bending drama, an Emmy nom—who needs dragons when you’re rewriting reality?
Still, imagine the alternate universe where Elizabeth Olsen was Khaleesi. Dragons, Kit Harington’s Jon Snow, the whole fiery package. It would’ve been a trip, right? Instead, we got Emilia Clarke’s powerhouse performance and Olsen ruling her own cinematic kingdom. Not bad for a “terrible” audition story.
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