{"id":2289556,"date":"2026-02-19T18:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2289556"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:32:12","slug":"an-emmy-and-oscar-winning-superstar-blew-their-game-of-thrones-audition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/an-emmy-and-oscar-winning-superstar-blew-their-game-of-thrones-audition\/","title":{"rendered":"An Emmy And Oscar-Winning Superstar Blew Their Game Of Thrones Audition"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If an actor is fortunate enough to catch big breaks and talented enough to make the most of them, they may reach a point in their career where they’re effectively too good to fail. When two-time Academy Award and one-time Emmy winner Mahershala Ali<\/a> auditioned for HBO’s “Game of Thrones<\/a>,” he was not there yet.<\/p>\n

The wildly popular fantasy drama and the “True Detective” Season 3 star seemed like a solid combination on paper, but as Ali admitted during a 2017 appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a>” his audition for the show wasn’t exactly one for the ages \u2014 thanks to a very specific furniture mishap.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If an actor is fortunate enough to catch big breaks and talented enough to make the most of them, they may reach a point in their career where they’re effectively too good to fail. When two-time Academy Award and one-time Emmy winner Mahershala Ali auditioned for HBO’s “Game of Thrones,” he was not there yet. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2289557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2289556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/An-Emmy-And-Oscar-Winning-Superstar-Blew-Their-Game-Of-Thrones.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2289558,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289556\/revisions\/2289558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2289557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}