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    Brittany Snow was forged in “Hairspray” after bombing the audition because of a psychic’s spot-on prediction

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    There's manifesting after which there's manifesting.

    Despite the fact that she admits she "bombed" her audition for the Hairspray movie adaptation, star Brittany Snow credit a psychic's eerily prescient prediction along with her in the end getting the a part of Amber Von Tussle within the film.

    Snow opened up in regards to the expertise within the newest episode of Owen Thiele's podcast In Your Dreams. In it, Thiele requested her how she acquired the position alongside Michelle Pfeiffer, who performed her mom, Velma Von Tussle, within the 2007 musical movie.

    Snow defined that she and a pal, whose id is bleeped out within the podcast, went to see a psychic. This pal went in first, and was instructed she'd break up, and left the room crying. This didn't instill a lot confidence in Snow, who joked that she assumed the psychic would then inform her, she's "gonna die, in all probability."

    Brittany Snow in 'Hairspray'
    Brittany Snow in 'Hairspray'.

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    As a substitute, she stated, "The woman goes, 'In two years, you’re going to get an enormous break that sort of begins your profession and also you're gonna play the daughter of a really well-known, iconic blonde girl.' These phrases precisely. I write it down, I tuck it away."

    A couple of 12 months later, Snow stated she acquired the decision to audition for Hairspray from director Adam Shankman, whom she had labored on The Pacifier with in 2005. He instructed her she'd be good for the position, however regardless of this vote of confidence, Snow admitted she's "a very, actually nervous, anxious particular person simply by nature" and due to this fact "actually unhealthy at auditioning."

    "My profession would look utterly completely different if I might audition, however I actually get in my head and there's this voice that is available in à la Parachute that claims like, 'You're gonna f— it up. You're gonna f— it up. Watch you f— it up,' after which I do," she continued.

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    Up in opposition to the likes of Hayden Panettiere and Rachel Bilson, who have been all within the audition ready room, too, Snow stated she "unbelievably bombed it" by forgetting the phrases, having her voice crack, and asking to begin over.

    A devastated Snow then went dwelling and began flipping by her journal when she was reminded of the psychic. "And I see this entry [about the psychic], and I name up Adam Shankman, swear to God, and I'm like, 'I do know this sounds insane, however I went to a psychic a 12 months in the past and she or he instructed me that I'm going to be in a film with like a well-known, blonde, iconic girl,' and he goes, 'Effectively, that's actually humorous as a result of Michelle Pfeiffer simply signed on as Velma,'" she recalled.

    The Pitch Good star continued, "I used to be like, 'This isn’t a coincidence. You must let me audition once more,' and [Shankman] was like, 'That is such a crazy-ass story. I'm gonna allow you to audition since you're so f—ing loopy.'"

    Brittany Snow in New York in 2024
    Brittany Snow in New York in 2024.

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    Clearly, all of it labored out, and alongside Pfeiffer, Amanda Bynes, Zac Efron, Christopher Walken, Nikki Blonsky, John Travolta, James Marsden, and extra, Hairspray was launched to important acclaim and monetary success, breaking the file for the highest-grossing opening weekend for a film musical on the time.

    Regardless of the spooky prediction, Snow stated her takeaway from the expertise was: "I don't even know if the psychic is actual as a lot as that was giving me the arrogance to name and get one other probability, which I wouldn't have achieved if I wouldn't have gone."

    As for what was completely different in her second audition? " what was fascinating, I had the wind beneath my wings that there was a psychic telling me I used to be going to get it, and so I used to be like, 'It's within the stars, child,'" she concluded.

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