12 Years a Slave Auditions - Saturday Night Live

Director, Steve McQueen (Kenan Thompson) shares footage of actors (Jim Parsons, Bobby Moynihan, Brooks Wheelan, Mike O'Brien) auditioning for the controversial film, 12 Years a Slave.

[michealhuff]

“We didn’t want to ruin any careers, so we chose actors who didn’t have any.”🤣

[jasonkazazis]

remember, the first person wanted to do "friendly guy in field" lol

[doointhedoo]

the camera man dressed up like an angry black panther party enforcer made it even more hilarious!

[FlailSnail]

I always figured that being a slave owner in a movie would be a really shitty way to start an acting career.

[Sandraaaa]

*THE FIRST GUY LEFT ME IN TEARS*
wanna say those words"
"Are there any North parts?"

[saarangshah]

“You have free reign.”
“I don’t feel like I do though.”
😂😂😂

[themusicactor]

This is real life for actors! People think acting is an easy profession.. it's a very psychological sometimes very challenging career and this skit depicts that perfectly.

[rudeboysandokhan]

The "y'all shootin' a movie?" part is the best!

[danielbeck]

"Please don't make me do this." Classic lol

[pandora]

I never realized how uncomfortable casting must have been for that movie. 🤣

[lexdadon]

I haven’t laughed this hard in years..I never realized how crazy casting for parts like that would be. Whoever came up with this skit, a fucking Genius

[romilrh]

Most people don't know what Steve McQueen looks like, but trust me, Kenan NAILED that impression

[TheRebeccaMills]

LMAO.
"Are there any North parts?"

[gladiator]

She tried to hand him the whip.
"I don't want to be seen with that" and just dropped it, had me dying.

[sandavijithminirathnayake]

Apparently Sheldon missed his bus stop and landed somewhere unknown once again . 😁

[whatsgoingon]

I’d imagine this is what Leonardo DiCaprio has to go through when he auditioned for *Django*

[ReelNinja]

"Script?...Ya'll shootin' a movie or somethin?" Lol that kills me everytime.

[bcbella]

“Sure everyone can do a southern accent, HOW YA’LL DOING TODAY WOULD YOU LIKE A A WHAAFFLE?!”
Lmao 😂 gets me every time

[ericsesame]

I'll never forget when Trevor Noah's show talked about if Creed was called Freed, it would have won an Oscar. 😂

[gumballfan]

This is honestly a pretty honest sketch. It must have been hard to force actors to act cruelly like that.