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LOS ANGELES, April 28 (UPI) -- Jimmy Kimmel screened footage of Kevin Spacey's 1979 audition for Tiger Beat magazine when the double Oscar-winning actor appeared on his talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! After sharing the tape featuring a baby-faced Spacey wearing a trench coat and fedora, Kimmel teased the House of Cards star about looking like a young Humphrey Bogart.
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"What was going on there?" Kimmel wanted to know.
"I went to this cattle call," Spacey, who is now 55, remembered. "This was during a period where I had left high school, I had not yet gone to New York to go to Julliard. So, there is a 2-year period where I was going on auditions for everything. I auditioned for The Gong Show during this period of time. I got pre-gonged. I didn't get on. Didn't get on and I was doing a Johnny Carson impression in, like, nightclubs."
Asked if he ultimately made it onto the pages of Tiger Beat, Spacey replied: "No, I don't think so because, look, I look like Humphrey Bogart. ... Little did they know they could have had an exclusive way back then."
He then turned to the camera and deadpanned, "Tiger Beat," as he finger-shamed the magazine.
