Will Arnett had tense audition with Kevin Costner day after being hospitalized: ‘This could go really bad right now’

There are bad audition stories, and then there are truly painful ones.

Will Arnett has a not-so-fond memory of the latter. During a stop by Hot Ones, the Arrested Development actor was asked if he had a “most painful memory of auditioning in L.A. during pilot season” to share, because he “once swore off pilots after being cast in a series of shows that failed to launch.”Though it wasn’t for pilot season — or a television series at all — Arnett did have a pretty good recollection of the time he auditioned with Kevin Costner for the 1997 movie The Postman.

The night before, I’d eaten something bad, and I ended up going to the hospital because I was so dehydrated from being ill,” Arnett told Hot Ones host Sean Evans. “And at that point that afternoon going to meet him, that was the furthest I’d been away from the bathroom in like, you know, 14 hours.”He continued, “And I remember getting up there and just meeting him and being a fan of his and like this was like a big deal, and just sweating, and just thinking, ‘This can go really bad right now.’ Yeah, I was meeting Kevin Costner and I legitimately was worried about crapping my pants, you know.”