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Outlander's Sam Heughan has looked back on his 'disastrous' Mamma Mia! audition as he hoped for a part in the movie before bagging the role of Jamie Fraser.
Before landing the role of the Highlander heartthrob in 2014, Sam had starred in various shows such as A Very British Sex Scandal, River City, The Wild West and Party Animals.
However, many fans of the actor may not know that he actually auditioned for the role of Dominic Cooper’s Sky in the hit musical movie Mamma Mia!
At the time of him auditioning for the movie which came out in 2008, Heughan was also starring in Noel Coward’s The Vortex, which meant his facial hair was styled in a 1920s moustache.
However, aside from the moustache, it didn't seem like Mamma Mia! was to be.
Opening up to Backstage, he said he was wrong for the role. He said: “I was just completely wrong for Mamma Mia! anyway.
“I was working with Will Young, this British musician, and he helped me with the song. He was, like, ‘This is really high, I’ll transfer it down an octave.’ So I felt reasonably comfortable with it.
Heughan added: “And I went in and I gave it to the piano player and I was, like, ‘I’m just gonna put this down an octave.’
“And he was, like, ‘No you’re not. I’m the musical supervisor, you’re going to do it like this.’ It was like strangling a cat, singing for Mamma Mia!”
And the Jamie Fraser star wasn't the only cast member from Outlander who had a not-so-great audition experience before joining the Starz show, writes The Express.
Tobias Menzies, who played Frank and Jonathan Randall in the early series of the show also told Backstage that he went for Ewan McGregor’s part in Moulin Rouge.
He stated: “I was so young, I was literally just out of college. But they were just doing that
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