<p>Actress <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/reese-witherspoon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reese Witherspoon</a> revealed during a recent interview that she had once &#8220;bricked&#8221; an audition with Academy Award winner <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/robert-de-niro/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Robert De Niro</a> — and to make matters worse, when he saw her again a decade later, he remembered it.</p>
<p>Witherspoon joined the Thursday evening broadcast of &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8221; and she explained to the host that it was one of the first auditions she had ever done as a teenager — for a movie called &#8220;Cape Fear&#8221; with <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/real-life-grinch-tries-to-steal-all-the-presents-from-under-robert-de-niros-tree/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">De Niro</a> and director Martin Scorcese.</p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The &#8220;Sweet Home Alabama&#8221; star explained that 1991 she had been just 14 years old — and prior to the audition, she hadn&#8217;t really known who De Niro was. When a helpful receptionist clued her in on just how big the &#8220;Goodfellas&#8221; star really was, Witherspoon said she got so nervous that she totally blew it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;One of the very first auditions I ever had was with Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese for a movie called &#8216;Cape Fear.&#8217; I didn&#8217;t get it. I&#8217;m not in that movie because I got so scared when I walked in the room,&#8221; she said, adding, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t know who Robert De Niro was, so I was standing outside talking to the receptionist. She was like, &#8216;You know he&#8217;s the most important actor of our time, right?'&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I was 14. I&#8217;d never seen &#8216;Goodfellas.&#8217; I&#8217;d never seen &#8216;The Godfather.&#8217; So it totally got on my nerves,&#8221; she continued.Witherspoon went on to divulge that the audition — while she was reading opposite De Niro — got so bad that she got stuck on one word, struggling to the point that De Niro just jumped in and said it for her. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But that was only the beginning of Witherspoon&#8217;s story — she said that she went to audition for De Niro again about a decade later, and despite her hopes that he might have forgotten about the last time, he had not.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I thought, &#8216;He&#8217;s never gonna remember that I bricked that audition,'&#8221; Witherspoon said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;And he was like, &#8216;I remember you.&#8217; I was like, &#8216;Me?&#8217; He&#8217;s like, &#8216;Oh yeah. You&#8217;re the one who couldn&#8217;t say the word.'&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I was like, &#8216;Oh, my God! This is so bad!'&#8221; she exclaimed.</span></p>

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