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Stephen Amell will be starring in the new NBC series Suits: LA this season, but he actually auditioned for a different new series just days before that one! The 43-year-old actor just revealed in a new interview that he auditioned to play Young Gibbs in the new CBS series NCIS: Origins, but lost the role to Austin Stowell. Stephen auditioned for NCIS: Origins on a Wednesday and thought it went well, but then found out on Thursday that he didn’t get the role. His Suits: LA audition took place on Friday and he says his frustration went into the audition, which he believes helped him land the role. Keep reading to find out more… “My focus wasn’t on Suits L.A. Two auditions came in [that week]. One was via Zoom, and this audition for suits was actually in person, which I remember being incredibly excited about because I don’t remember the last time [that happened]. My actual focus that week was on an audition that I had on Wednesday for the prequel to NCIS. It was playing the younger version of [Mark Harmon’s Leroy Jethro Gibbs],” Stephen said on Michael Rosenbaum‘s Inside of You podcast. While Stephen hadn’t watched NCIS and didn’t know much about the role yet, he “was excited by the prospect of, OK, this is a network show. This is pilot season. This doesn’t really happen that much anymore.” Stephen continued, “This came in, and I thought that the audition went extraordinarily well. I got great feedback. I hadn’t looked at the sides for Suits L.A. yet, and then I found out on Thursday afternoon, after getting not just good feedback, but, like, good intel, like, ‘We think [the series] is gonna move forward,’ all of a sudden, it was dead, and I felt like someone, somewhere along the line, had, like, c–k-blocked me… So I didn’t know what was going on, and I was frustrated.” Stephen channeled his frustration into his in-person audition for Suits: LA. “I walked into that audition with kind of no fear,” he said. “[I] tried to be a lot looser and more spontaneous than I think probably a lot of other people were because this guy’s a lawyer. This guy’s supposed to be the smartest guy in the room, but, concurrently, I just figured everyone was going to be stone-cold serious, so let’s just have a little bit of fun.” Stephen added, “Retrospectively, I got the job that I was supposed to get. Aaron Korsh writes a very fun, digestible show that has a lot of heart, and I think that’s why the original has resonated with people in such a crazy, seismic way to the point where Heels going to Netflix, you literally say I hope it gets the Suits treatment.” Take a look back at 11 famous actors who were considered to play Gibbs on the original NCIS series before Mark Harmon got the role.
