After Kessell described delivering a bang-on audition however failing to get a name again for M. Evening Shyamalan’s “After Earth,” Eaton described her personal “devastation.”
“I used to be up for the ‘Star Wars’ position that Daisy Ridley ended up doing,” she recounted. “It was an intense scene, however I wasn’t getting it, and I used to be getting actually pissed off with myself. It was a check with the costume director and J. J. Abrams, so primarily I ended up getting so labored up that I had a panic assault and ruined my audition.”
Rey’s first look was in 2015’s “The Pressure Awakens,” which means auditions should have occured in 2014, if not all the way in which again in 2013. That might have made Eaton round 17-18 years outdated, and by that point she solely had one display screen credit score to her title. It was a robust one, although: Cheedo the Fragile, one of many enslaved wives of Immortan Joe in “Mad Max: Fury Street.” Eaton made a robust impression regardless of having few to no strains within the movie, however you may solely think about the immense quantity of stress the younger actress felt to nail an audition for what could be a life-altering position.
When Eaton’s agent known as for a run down, she instructed them plainly, “‘I had a panic assault in entrance of J. J. Abrams. Possibly it labored for the scene, possibly it did not.'” It was an expertise that may “ceaselessly hang-out” Eaton, but it surely’s much more haunting to contemplate what “Yellowjackets” could be with out her commanding and ethereal efficiency at its core. We by no means want for the actors we like to fail. However simply this one time, Eaton’s well-known flop might need been for the perfect.