Cop Out
Summary
David Krumholtz share the " bad audition " story of his career , which was for Kevin Smith’sCop Out , the 2010 buddy cop comedy star Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan . Krumholtz is a character histrion best bonk for his character as Bernard inThe Santa Clausefranchise and Charlie Eppes in the television seriesNumb3rs . Krumholtz had the biggest exposure of his career inChristopher Nolan’sOppenheimerwith a compassionate performance as Isidor Isaac Rabi , a Nobel Prize - winning physicist who worked as a advisor on the Manhattan Project and was a close friend to Oppenheimer .
On Twitter / X , Krumholtzrecently partake his " unsound audition experience ever " forKevin Smith’sCop Out , which was interrupt by a " 70 - year - old Super Mario lookalike " whose cellular telephone rang throughout almost the entire prospect . See Krumholtz recount the story below :
He start , " Worst audition experience ever ? For Cop Out and Kevin Smith . Nightmare . Josh Gad was there too . It was unreal . "

Krumholtz continues,“I walk in . Kevin Smith says hi . Casting theatre director reiterates , ' one take , no stopping , just one view . ' Ok . There is a man in the room that I can only describe as a 70 year old Super Mario lookalike . He does not introduce himself . I have no thought why he is there . "
Krumholtz concludes , " I begin . 3 job into the scene , Old Mario ’s cellphone ring . LOUD . Very aloud . I stop . I ca n’t concentrate . Kevin Smith & the regurgitate director differentiate me to keep going . The sound is still ringing and sure-enough Mario is desperately botch it , has no thought how to reverse it off . ' Keep endure . ' I kept going . Incredibly distrait . Old Mario ultimately turn off his phone around the final note of the conniption . I think they ’d give me one more run at it , out of kindness . ' Thanks , David . Good seeing you . ' I walked out , waited for Josh , and drive him home . We laughed about it . "
David Krumholtz’s Oppenheimer Audition Was Also Crazy
Though he ultimately got the part , as play off to Smith’sCop Out , Krumholtz ’s auditory sense forOppenheimerwas also crazy . As recount during an appearance on theInside of You with Michael Rosenbaumpodcast , Krumholtz had met Christopher Nolan about 16 year prior when the music director was reconnoiter locations forThe Dark Knightat the same studio whereNumb3rswas shot . Nolan border on Krumholtz and praised his performance in the show , much to the doer ’s surprisal .
Because of his previous showdown with Nolan , Krumholtz was n’t restrain when he had to audition for the filmmaker face - to - cheek . However , when he arrived at the tryout , Krumholtz was the only role player there , which worry him . He only read two scenes for Nolan , and the director made him do it three times , trying to give a dissimilar operation each time . After the third meter , Nolan told him , " I want you to do it again , but this clock time I want you to do it like you ’re driving home from this sense of hearing cerebrate ' I should have done it that way . ' "
Christopher Nolan ’s Oppenheimer stick with its titular subject — before & after he create the atomic bomb . We break down the biopic ’s ending in item .

Convinced he had waste one of the biggest opportunities of his career , Krumholtz provide the auditory modality , drive straight to a brewery , and " downed a clump of beer " to drown his sorrows . About three or four beer in , Krumholtz receive a call from his agent informing him he arrest the part , though he had no thought how integral he would be to the movie . Krumholtz clarified that he was blank and sober for 14 months after the incident .
WhileCop Outisn’t available on streaming , Oppenheimerwill be on Peacock on February 16 .
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Cop Out is a comedic buddy-cop action movie that follows Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as Jimmy and Paul, two NYPD detectives trying to find a priceless mint-conditioned baseball card. When Jimmy needs $50,000 to pay for his daughter’s upcoming wedding, he heads to a pawnshop to sell his baseball card, only for the shop to be robbed. Now with his distracted partner currently focused on the fact his wife may be cheating on him, the two will engage in a game of cat and mouse across the city to get the card back.
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copper Out is a comedic buddy - pig activeness pic that follows Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan as Jimmy and Paul , two NYPD detective trying to find a invaluable mint - conditioned baseball game card . When Jimmy needs $ 50,000 to pay for his girl ’s upcoming marriage , he lead to a pawnbroker’s shop to deal his baseball visiting card , only for the shop to be robbed . Now with his distracted partner currently focused on the fact his married woman may be cheating on him , the two will wage in a biz of qat and mouse across the city to get the card back .
Oppenheimer is a film by Christopher Nolan , which follows the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer , the world behind the nuclear turkey . Cillian Murphy will play the titular role , with the tarradiddle ground on the book American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin .




Oppenheimer is a film by Christopher Nolan, which follows the theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, the man behind the atomic bomb. Cillian Murphy will play the titular role, with the story based on the book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin.


