Noah Centineo recently admitted that a swimming pool ruined his shot at landing Timothée Chalamet's role in Interstellar, and the confession came wrapped in a story too chaotic to invent. The actor sat down for a conversation that pulled back the curtain on the messier corners of his career. Long before Peter Kavinsky turned him into a household name, rejection was a regular visitor at his door. That honesty set the tone for a chat filled with candid detours and unexpected confessions.

While the pool story stole the spotlight, it doubled as a preview of a career built on chaos turning into something bigger and stranger.

Noah Centineo confirmed that he auditioned for the role Timothée Chalamet eventually played in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, and the process did not go the way he had planned. He described arriving at a compound with a pool on set, then getting distracted by the water instead of preparing for the actual scene.

"I auditioned for Timothée Chalamet's role in Interstellar," he said on Happy Sad Confused.

He then added, "And ruined it. I did it so bad," explaining that curiosity about the pool completely derailed his focus before he ever stepped in front of the camera.

Centineo revealed that he brought a childhood friend along to the audition, and the two ended up swimming in the compound pool instead of staying locked in on the material. He later learned from another actor auditioning that day that his antics had disrupted the entire process for everyone else in line. The story, shared on Happy Sad Confused, painted a picture of a young actor still learning the difference between charm and preparation.

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As one soaked audition faded into memory, an entirely different kind of set has since taken over Centineo's schedule.

Noah Centineo's audition mishaps sit far behind him now, with Gundam marking one of his biggest professional swings yet. Sydney Sweeney and Noah Centineo's live-action adaptation entered production on Australia's Gold Coast under director Jim Mickle, with Netflix backing the ambitious project. The film reimagines the iconic universe with an original storyline set during a conflict between Earth and space colonies, pairing the two leads as rival mech pilots pulled into an uneasy alliance against a rising threat.

The ensemble surrounding Centineo and Sweeney includes Jason Isaacs, Michael Mando, Shioli Kutsuna, Jackson White, and Nonso Anozie, rounding out a project with serious scale behind it. No release date has been confirmed yet, though current timelines point toward a late 2027 or early 2028 premiere on Netflix. From a ruined Interstellar audition to leading one of Netflix's biggest projects, Centineo's path proves that a few soaked mistakes never sink a career for good.

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