The 1951 movie responsible for Javier Bardem’s worst audition: “I didn’t want to do it”

So, does he rank up there with the likes of Brando, who is widely thought of as the best to ever appear on cinema screens? He had managed to land an erotic thriller called The Ages of Lulu, and a movie opposite his future wife Penélope Cruz called Jamón Jamón, but was still auditioning for plays. In that, he talked about his worst experience, revealing, “The worst one was when I was, like, 23 and they offered me A Streetcar Named Desire in the theatre. I was doing the audition, and it went so wrong, because I didn’t want to do it.” Bardem plays Stilgar, a tribal leader, in the franchise, which has earned over $1billion at the box office since the first instalment back in 2021.