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Joe Jonas, who precocious returned to acting, erstwhile tried retired for the relation of Spider-Man successful 1 of the franchise's deed movies. Find retired who ended up getting the relation instead.
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In a caller interview, Joe Jonas says helium was once a contender for the rubric relation successful the 2012 movie The Amazing Spider-Man.
"I retrieve years agone I was up for Spider-Man and I was so, truthful excited and it was the twelvemonth Andrew Garfield got it," the Jonas Brothers singer told Variety's Just for Variety podcast in comments posted Nov. 23. "Obviously, helium was the close one. But I retrieve that was a large happening astatine the time, going backmost for callbacks and the manager utilized to beryllium a euphony video director. So I was like, 'I got an successful here.'"
Marc Webb directed dozens of euphony videos for bands and artists specified arsenic My Chemical Romance, Miley Cyrus, Fergie, Green Day, No Doubt, Evanescence and Maroon 5 earlier helium helmed his archetypal film, the 2009 movie 500 Days of Summer, and later, The Amazing Spider-Man and its 2014 sequel The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
Spidey was not the only acting relation Jonas tried retired for and didn't get. "In the moment, you're destroyed oregon you're defeated," helium told Just for Variety host Marc Malkin. "But you recognize this idiosyncratic was brilliant."
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Jonas antecedently showcased his acting chops connected the Disney Channel's Jonas bid and Camp Rock TV movies earlier auditioning for The Amazing Spider-Man. The singer, who besides performs with dance-rock band DNCE, past concentrated connected his euphony vocation for galore years earlier getting backmost into acting during the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, helium appeared on 2 episodes of The Righteous Gemstones. He besides stars successful the war movie Devotion, released Nov. 23.
And Jonas is thanking a peculiar idiosyncratic for helping him hole for his auditions: His wife, Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner.
"She's my toughest critic," Jonas said. "Yes, I'm going to beryllium a small tense [but she's] ace adjuvant and I consciousness similar what a large acting manager to locomotion maine done this. And I bash person her to thank."
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