The failed 2005 audition that convinced Henry Cavill not to quit acting: “I should stick around”For a while, Henry Cavill was gradually acquiring a reputation for himself as the unluckiest man in Hollywood, which can’t be the easiest thing for an actor to hear. One solitary fish, right enough, but there aren’t many bigger or harder to catch swimming in cinematic seas than James Bond. It was a sore one to take, but in a strange way, the highest-profile failure of his professional life only emboldened him to see it through. “There were plenty of times I thought it wouldn’t happen,” Cavill confessed. Then I got the screen test for Bond, and thought, ‘My name is out there now, so maybe I should stick around’.