Actor Simon Rex reveals that flunking an audition was the break that made his career. Rex’s said in an interview with People published Sunday that his audition for the 1997 film Good Will Hunting, starring Matt Damon, was “so bad” that Damon started “laughing.” He said he was called in for the audition after he was spotted on MTV, where he was a video jockey. “It is funny because I started off as a VJ announcing videos in the ’90s, and that’s why I’m an actor,” Rex said. According to the actor, director Gus Van Sant saw Rex on MTV and said, “‘I want that guy to read for my movie, Good Will Hunting.'" But the audition didn’t fare well, with Rex saying he “bombed” it. “I was reading the lines like a robot because I had never acted before. And Matt Damon was laughing at me as I’m reading the

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