Beast Actor's X-Men Audition Included Family Guy Impression

When auditioning to get the roles they want, sometimes actors make strange choices. For instance, Anne Hathaway went into her The Dark Knight Rises audition dressed as Harley Quinn, before realizing she was there for the role of Catwoman. Sometimes, though, it's not the actor's idea to do strange things when auditioning. Take Nicholas Hoult, for example.

The actor has played the role of Hank "Beast" McCoy in four different X-Men movies, beginning with 2011's X-Men: First Class. To get that role, a peculiar request was made of Hoult. "[Director] Matthew Vaughn asked me to do a couple of takes in an American accent as you kind of saw the character. But then also do a take doing an impression of Stewie Griffin from Family Guy," he remembered in an interview with GQ.

Thankfully, Hoult knew the show well. "I had watched a lot of Family Guy in my teen years growing up, so I was like, 'OK, I think I've got a pretty good impression of Stewie Griffin lined up,'" he said. He recorded himself reading lines as Stewie, along with the rest of his audition and submitted it to Vaughn. Thankfully, it worked, and the rest of history.

While Hoult's time as Beast may have come to an end after X-Men: Dark Phoenix, there's still at least one more movie on the way for the franchise. New Mutants, which focuses on a different set of mutants, was just given a new release date, after being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.