Kate Winslet says this ‘Oppenheimer’ actor has ‘the worst English accent’ ever

This was one gig he couldn’t Sher-lock down.

Robert Downey Jr. revealed to Howard Stern that Kate Winslet couldn’t maintain again her contempt over his try to go for an Englishman throughout an audition for Nancy Meyers’ 2006 movie “The Vacation.”

At a script studying with different actors hoping to land a component — together with Winslet and Cameron Diaz, who have been profitable, and future “Tonight Present” host Jimmy Fallon, who, like Downey, didn’t guide the gig — Downey and Fallon “each bought referred to as in simply as seat-fillers,” the “Oppenheimer” and “Iron Man” actor recalled.

“Jack Black is getting his half and Jude Legislation is unquestionably getting my half, however [Meyers] wanted somebody to learn with the gals, and we’re sitting there going, ‘It’s about to occur for us.’”

“I used to be like, ‘I’ve bought to have a greater English accent than Jude Legislation at this level,’ and Winslet stated, ‘That’s the worst British accent I’ve ever heard in my life,’” Downey confessed.

“I used to be like, ‘I’ll take a look at now, however I’m taking the gummy bears from the minibar.’”

Fallon, who was additionally current for the Stern interview, confessed to being so pumped to be in a resort room studying the script that he would’ve accomplished the film on the time “for half-price” if Jack Black backed out.

The director let the pair down collectively, saying they weren’t “an ideal match,” Downey added.

Fallon joked about by no means auditioning for one more position due to the embarrassment.

“For sure, I’m sitting throughout from Robert Downey Jr., and I’m going, ‘That is the perfect actor I’ve sat throughout [from] and did a scene with in my total life,’” he recalled. “It was mind-blowing for me, and I stop the enterprise. I by no means went again.”

The romantic comedy ended up starring Black and Legislation because the love pursuits to Winslet and Diaz, respectively.

Fallon joked that he bought a tattoo of him and Downey — “us arm in arm, leaving dejected [after] not being forged on this film.”

“That film would have been so a lot better with the 2 of you guys,” Stern stated.