Kat Dennings said she once had to mime getting away from Nicolas Cage in an audition because he refused to touch her

• Kat Dennings told Variety that an audition with Nicolas Cage is one of her “best memories.”
• The audition, she said, involved her character being physically restrained.
• But Cage wouldn’t touch Dennings out of respect, so Dennings had to mime the whole thing.
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Kat Dennings said that a bizarre audition with Nicolas Cage was one of the “best memories” of her life.

Dennings, who is starring in Marvel’s “WandaVision,” told Variety that she was in the final audition for a part in a “very dramatic” movie that ended up being nominated for a ton of Oscars and was directed by a “hugely famous director.”

The scene she was auditioning with involved her being physically restrained by the actor in the movie, which happened to be Cage. Dennings said that all of the dialogue in the scene revolved around her character trying to get away from Cage’s character. But things didn’t go to plan.

“I’m ready to get into like the physicality of the scene, but I realized pretty quick that that actor is not going to touch me. He’s also not going to be near me. He was at the other end of the room, which seemed to be his choice,” Dennings said, noting that she was “pretty young” at the time.

“I was like ‘I’m going to be miming this.’ So a scene where I am asking to be let go of and physically wriggling out of this man’s grip became a miming session. But I understand and I respect that the actor made that decision. But at the time, it was not great because I was like, ‘I look like an absolute moron. I’m not getting this.'”

Dennings said that while the audition wasn't what she anticipated, she still enjoyed the experience auditioning with Cage, who she says is one of her all-time favorite actors.

"I'm actually really grateful for that experience just because I wanted to be in a room with Nicolas Cage," Dennings said. "But what's nice is that he was so respectful and I think that might have been where it was coming from like, I'm a young girl so he didn't want to physically touch me and make me uncomfortable. I appreciate it. I really do."

Dennings is currently starring in "WandaVision" as Darcy Lewis, a role she played in two previous MCU movies, "Thor" and "Thor: The Dark World." Darcy is helping Randall Park's FBI agent Jimmy Woo figure out what is going on in Westview and what is happening to Elizabeth Olsen's Wanda.

It's unclear if Darcy's role will get bigger in "WandaVision," which has started to call back to past MCU movies, but her character has proved pretty useful so far. Meanwhile, Dennings said she is "gonna assume" that her character isn't in the next "Thor" movie, which is currently shooting right now. She said that she hasn't been asked to do anything for it, but would always be up for anything Marvel wanted her to do.