The Studio star auditioned on tape for the 2003 Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez movie Gigli, he revealed on Jimmy Kimmel Live, when he was just 21 years old.
The film about a low-ranking mobster (Affleck) and a female gangster (Lopez) who kidnap the intellectually disabled kid brother of a prominent district attorney was critically panned across the board. Director Martin Brest wouldn’t even speak his film’s name as he roasted his own work, which he called “a bloody mess that deserved its excoriation.”
Rogen described his less than PC portrayal of the character to Kimmel “I don’t think I wore a helmet in to the audition itself, but it was at play. And I’m tempted to do an impression of what I did, but I can’t even do it,” he laughed, “I can’t. That’s how bad it was. It’s so bad. I dare not even portray what I did in this audition. Because I went for it. I saw myself at the Oscars.”
The tape is apparently so offensive, Rogen thinks it would end his career if it were ever unearthed.