Stephen Amell will be starring in the new NBC series Suits: LA this season, but he actually auditioned for a different new series just days before that one! The 43-year-old actor just revealed in a new interview that he auditioned to play Young Gibbs in the new CBS series NCIS: Origins , but lost the role to Austin Stowell . Stephen auditioned for NCIS: Origins on a Wednesday and thought it went well, but then found out on Thursday that he didn’t get the role. His Suits: LA audition took place on Friday and he says his frustration went into the audition, which he believes helped him land the role.
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“My focus wasn’t on Suits L.A. Two auditions came in [that week].
One was via Zoom, and this audition for suits was actually in person, which I remember being incredibly excited about because I don’t remember the last time [that happened]. My actual focus that week was on an audition that I had on Wednesday for the prequel to NCIS . It was playing the younger version of [ Mark Harmon ’s Leroy Jethro Gibbs],” Stephen said on Michael Rosenbaum ‘s Inside of You podcast .
While Stephen hadn’t watched NCIS and didn’t know much about the role yet, he “was excited by the prospect of, OK, this is a network show. This is pilot season. This doesn’t really happen that much anymore.
” Stephen continued, “This came in, and I thought that the audition went extraordinarily well. I got great feedback. I hadn’t looked at the sides for Suits.