Nick Jonas thinks he could have played Frozen’s Kristoff character “better” but didn’t get the role.
During a recent chat on the Hey Jonas! podcast, the Jonas Brothers member recalled that he gave the audition for the 2013 animated movie, but it didn’t go his way.
On the Tuesday episode of the show, the cast of Frozen, including Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel and Josh Gad, made an appearance. Nick took the opportunity to look back at his experience.
“I went in for Kristoff,” Nick said of the character played by Jonathan Groff.
“I went in and they said, ‘Okay, what are you going to be singing today?’ I said, ‘Oh, I don’t know.’ They said, ‘What do you mean you don’t know?’ They’re like, ‘Do you have your sheet music?’ And I said, ‘No, no one told me I had.…,’ and so I just said, ‘Can you play something from,’ I don’t know what I said, some musical theater song. And I bombed the audition. It was terrible.”
Kristen, the voice behind Anna, quipped, That must have been why you didn’t get it,” to which Nick agreed.
Josh, who played Olaf, joked, “Look, I’ll say it here. You have such better chemistry with Kristen than Groff.”
Nick continued Josh’s quip, adding, “I love Jonathan Groff, but I do think it would have been better to cast me.”
Despite Nick not being cast, he loved the film. “I didn’t spite-watch it, I really did enjoy it the first time.”
The first installment of the film crossed over $1.3 billion at the global box office, while it 2019 sequel hit one and half billion.
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