He revealed that a friend ended up starring in the film: “I called him after the meeting and said, ‘I think I screwed up.’ He said, ‘Yeah, that’s tough, man.’”

Nick Jonas wanted to ‘die inside’ after screwing up meeting with director for ‘big movie’

He revealed that a friend ended up starring in the film: "I called him after the meeting and said, 'I think I screwed up.' He said, 'Yeah, that's tough, man.'"

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- Nick Jonas recalled a meeting for a "big movie" that went awry because of something he said.

- The actor and singer revealed that he "screwed up" his conversation with a director by asking a question he regrets.

- He later called his friend who ended up in the film to lament his mishap.

Nick Jonas' face was probably burnin' up after a very important meeting went very, very wrong.

The actor and singer revealed that he once "screwed up" his conversation with a director by asking one simple question he regrets.

"So I met with a director for this big movie — I'm not gonna say what movie it is, and people can guess in the comments or wherever," Nick said on the latest episode of *Hey Jonas*, his podcast with brothers Joe and Kevin.

Nick Jonas, Kevin Jonas, and Joe Jonas in 2023.

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Joe and Kevin immediately jumped in to joke that the movie was either Mel Gibson's 2004 film *The Passion of the Christ* or its upcoming 2027 sequels, *The Resurrection of the Christ: Part One *and* Part Two*. After shutting their theories down, Nick made a second attempt at telling his story.

"I auditioned for this big movie, and I didn't really realize that it was a director meeting," he said. "The director also produces, as most do, and so I went into the meeting and started talking about the film and what the take was gonna be, and this, that, and the other."

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Nick explained that he thought the Hollywood creative was "just producing the film" and wasn't aware he was pulling double duty and serving as its director, too.

"I asked him, 'Oh, and who's directing?' And his response was, 'Well, me.' It was like, 'Oh,'" he recalled. "I wanted to die inside at that moment. I did die inside."

While he didn't land the role, Nick said one of the brothers' "very good friends" ended up starring in the film. "I called him after the meeting and said, 'I think I screwed up. I asked the director who's directing the movie,'" Nick remembered. "He said, 'Yeah, that's tough, man.'"

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Joe sympathized with his younger brother. "That's a tough one to come back from, that one," he said, to which Nick replied, "It's okay. Things happen."

Nick did not share any details about the film, its director, or the pal who starred in the project, but the brothers' friend circle includes stars like Glen Powell, who previously worked with Nick on the show *Scream Queens *and with Joe in the 2022 war film *Devotion*.

In February, Nick and Glen's friendship made headlines when the "Gut Punch" singer revealed that he found the* Top Gun: Maverick* actor's plane ticket in the pocket of a pair of jeans he was set to wear for a performance on *The Tonight Show*.

"When he pulled that ticket out of his pants, he was like, 'Do you mind if I, like, post this?' I was like, 'That is so random. Yes!'" Powell told *Entertainment Tonight* at the time. "The Brotherhood of the Traveling Pants — we need to make it something. I don't know, I loved it."

Watch Nick discuss his awkward director meeting in the clip above.

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