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‘Outer Banks’ star Chase Stokes could have been the next Tom Cruise...if he had read the stage directions. In this video, he tells a funny story about the time he auditioned for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and unfortunately misunderstood his acting assignment.

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00:00Tell me your best audition story.
00:03I once read for a movie that had to do with airplanes.
00:09And so I thought the audition was me as the said driver of an airplane.
00:14The pilot.
00:15The pilot.
00:16Yeah, that word.
00:17And so I did the whole audition as a pilot.
00:20And they gave me a note, and the note was, you were actually not flying the plane.
00:25You were in the air traffic control tower, and you're just talking to the pilots.
00:29You're not the cool guy.
00:30And I was like, oh, okay, well, I can do it again.
00:32And they were like, no, that's okay.
00:33You can leave.
00:34Yeah, and so they left.
00:35Actually get out.
00:36Yeah, so I left.
00:37Damn.
00:38I don't know.
00:39This is hard.
00:42That is true.
00:43Okay, okay.
00:44That is true.
00:45I like that being true.
00:46It's funny, because what were you doing?
00:48Honestly, I should have probably read the sides, you know?
00:51Like, it was right there, too.
00:52Tips for any actors, read the other words on the page, like the stage directions.
00:56Read those.
00:57Read the materials.
00:57Read the materials.
00:58Don't wing it.
00:59It was Top Gun.
01:01So anyways.
01:02You thought for sure.
01:03You said sure.
01:03I was like, I got it.
01:06It's a pilot.
01:06I'm flying a plane.
01:07Nobody puts a baby in the pit.
01:08Air traffic control.
01:09And I was like, oh.
01:10There you go.
01:11Nice.
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