Kevin Spacey Auditions for Tiger Beat Magazine in 1979
LOS ANGELES, April 28 (UPI) — Jimmy Kimmel screened footage of Kevin Spacey’s 1979 audition for Tiger Beat magazine when the double Oscar-winning actor appeared on his talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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After sharing the tape featuring a baby-faced Spacey wearing a trench coat and fedora, Kimmel teased the House of Cardsstar about looking like a young Humphrey Bogart.
“What was going on there?” Kimmel wanted to know.
“I went to this cattle call,” Spacey, who is now 55, remembered. “This was during a period where I had left high school, I had not yet gone to New York to go to Julliard. So, there is a 2-year period where I was going on auditions for everything. I auditioned for The Gong Showduring this period of time. I got pre-gonged. I didn’t get on. Didn’t get on and I was doing a Johnny Carson impression in, like, nightclubs.”
Asked if he ultimately made it onto the pages of Tiger Beat, Spacey replied: “No, I don’t think so because, look, I look like Humphrey Bogart. … Little did they know they could have had an exclusive way back then.”
He then turned to the camera and deadpanned, “Tiger Beat,” as he finger-shamed the magazine.
