Joe Jonas has opened up about what he describes as one of his most humiliating Hollywood moments, a disastrous audition for The morning show that he says he crashed and burned so badly he wasn’t even sure what role he was going to.
The 36-year-old singer shared the story on Wednesday’s episode of Hi Jonas!the new podcast he hosts with brothers Nick and Kevin, revealing that he had tried out as a young news anchor to be a love interest for Jennifer Aniston’s character.
By his own account, the experience did not go well.
“Long story short, I show up early [and] they’re like, ‘Oh,'” he told his brothers. Instead of joining the general waiting area, he was quietly ushered somewhere else.
“They did this, which was very kind… they said, ‘Oh, we have a private room for you’.”
The private room, it turned out, was anything but an advantage.
“The saddest room you can imagine,” he said, where he could hear other actors coming in for auditions “bright as day” and they were, in his words, “crushed.”
Then came his own turn. “I walk in and I’m just like, crash and burn. It was literally, like, I don’t even know what I’m auditioning for.”
The confession prompted Nick, 33, to start guessing which role Joe was talking about and throw out Spider-Man and Evil as possibilities.
Joe’s response drew laughter: “We don’t need to mention all the things I didn’t get.” Kevin helpfully confirmed, “That’s two of them.”
Joe later admitted that Evil audition was its own special experience given the level of theatrical vocalists he could hear performing around him.
Fans reacting to a clip from the episode on Instagram were characteristically amused, with many demanding a full list of Joe’s failed auditions and at least one suggesting the universe had made a terrible mistake by not casting him Evil.
The morning show audition aside, Joe’s screen career has had its moments, especially that one Camp Rock movie with his brothers, 2025 Jonah’s Christmas movie and a memorable cameo in Zoolander 2.
The morning showLooks like it just wasn’t meant to be.
