Harry Hamlin almost landed a starring role in Indiana Jones but totally messed up his audition!
The 68-year-old actor just revealed that he was on the shortlist of actors for the part and was brought in to audition in front of Steven Spielberg and George Lucas alongside actress Stephanie Zimbalist.
“[Steven] said, ‘Harry, Stephanie, I’m so sorry, but George’s plane is going to be late. He’s coming flying down from San Francisco and is gonna be at least 45 minutes until he gets here.’ But here’s the thing, Steven said. George loves chocolate cake. Steven said, ‘Come into the kitchen.’ He said, ‘Listen, guys, I want you to bake a cake for George. Everything here it’s all the ingredients are here but please, if you get it in the oven by the time he gets here, he will be delighted,’” Harry recalled to Page Six.
While Harry joined Stephanie in the kitchen he began gossiping about Steven‘s “annoying” romantic pursuit of his friend Amy Irving. It turns out, Steven was watching the whole thing!
“This was before VHS, this was before you could go to the video store to buy a camera, it’s before any of that. It never occurred to me that we were actually in the audition while we were making the cake. The place was bugged with cameras and microphones and they, George and Steven, were upstairs watching us make the cake. That was the audition to see what our chemistry was like,” Harry continued.
He added, “I’d been riffing on how annoying Steven Spielberg was to my friend Amy, so hey, guess what? I didn’t get the part, OK, and I’ve never worked with Steven Spielberg. And I grant you that I never will work with Steven Spielberg and I never learned how to make a cake.”
