Casting director Eric Dawson — who has worked with ‘AHS’ creator Ryan Murphy since the late 1990s — is reminiscing on Margot Robbie’s audition for ‘American Horror Story: Asylum.’ https://t.co/fVbLFgUUQS
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) August 25, 2023
Margot Robbie came this close to scaring our pants off on American Horror Story’s season 2, Asylum.
Casting director reminisced on the Robbie’s audition for the horror anthology.
Robbie would go on to have a breakout role in 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street instead.
“Margot has a lot of ‘it’ factors. That’s the tough thing for casting directors who aren’t in the room [anymore] with actors. Margot is probably one of my favorite auditions of all time, and it was right before she broke out. She was such a star. It was crazy, her star appeal when she walked in the room. Even though she didn’t get that role, that was one of those things as a casting director where you go: This is a star, what do we do with her?”
He explained that it immediately became clear “she was out of our realm of possibility of hiring“
“That’s really the fun part of casting, is seeing the people whose careers are just rising.”
