The Audition (2015)

Directed by

Martin Scorsese

Genre

short film, comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

16 min

Rated

10

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 152 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio play exaggerated versions of themselves. They travel to Asia and compete for a role in Martin Scorsese's next movie. Brad Pitt appears as himself in a small part.

comedicplayfullightheartedfast-pacedmetawhimsicalself-referential

What happens

The Audition is a 2015 comedy short film directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Terence Winter. It stars Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, playing fictionalized versions of themselves, who travel through Asia and compete against each other for a potential role in Scorsese's next film. Brad Pitt, also playing a fictionalized version of himself, makes a cameo appearance. The short was created to promote Studio City, a hotel casino resort located in Macau. It is Scorsese's first film to feature both De Niro and DiCaprio. Both actors had individually collaborated with Scorsese several times in the past, and had appeared in the same films with one another, but the three had never worked on the same project together. They would eventually work together once again for the 2023 feature film Killers of the Flower Moon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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