Patricia Arquette Recalls Auditioning for ‘Jerry Maguire’ With Tom Cruise: ‘I Blew It’
variety.comPatricia Arquette said she’s “a notoriously bad auditioner,” which led her to lose out on the 1996 comedy “Jerry Maguire.” “Everyone was saying, ‘Oh, this is just a formality, you’re gonna read with Tom Cruise for ‘Jerry Maguire,’ but this is your part, you got it,’ and I blew it,” the actor told Variety‘s senior culture and events editor Marc Malkin at the SAG Awards red carpet on Sunday.
Renée Zellweger ended up booking the role of Dorothy Boyd in the film, to which Arquette added, “I actually think she was better for it, and she was great.” The film depicts a sports agent getting fired for expressing his moral epiphany and subsequently using his new philosophy with his one remaining client as an independent agent.
The film received several awards and was Oscar-nominated for best picture, with Zellweger receiving a SAG nod for female actor in a supporting role. “Jerry Maguire” is not the only major film Arquette missed out on. “I just heard on this podcast the other day our friend sent us that the casting director, that Brad Pitt and I were her choice, we were the first ones who came in to read for ‘The Doors,’ and she was like, ‘Why are we having any more auditions?
They were perfect,'” Arquette said. Neither Arquette nor Pitt ended up booking “The Doors,” which starred Val Kilmer and Meg Ryan in 1991.
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