Jonny Beauchamp Took A Risk For 'Katy Keene' Audition & Performed This

Jonny Beauchamp is dishing on what really got him to land his Katy Keene audition!

The 30-year-old actor made an appearance on Build Series on Monday (February 10) to chat about the new show.

During his interview, he revealed that during the audition process, he thought he could really do better to stand out by rapping a Nicki Minaj song.

“I don’t get precious about things, like I audition for stuff all the time, it’s our job. I don’t get, move on!” he shared. “And usually one of my friends gets it if it’s casting in New York. It’s really cool, it’s in the fam. I don’t know if I would have recovered if I didn’t get this part.”

“I was like, ‘I’m going to do anything I can to make this happen. I even pulled like a little gimmicky stunt like,” Jonny continued. “So I went into casting, and these were wonderful girls, they’re like very business and ready. There was a lot of boys waiting, so I went in there, she received me, she was nice, we did the scene, and she was like, ‘Okay, that’s great.’ Then we did a little bit of a song, ‘Okay, that’s great.’ ‘Oh, okay, awesome.’”

“When you’re not really asked to do it a couple times, you know, get adjustments, you immediately think like it’s done, it’s gone, they don’t want it,” he went on. “So on my way out, I was like girl you gotta do something, you cannot let this go. LA needs to see this tape, you have to stick out. So I had been listening to you know, my music or whatever, and there’s a Nicki Minaj song that it’s probably her most PC song that she has, and it’s on her first record, and I felt like it really encompassed the pilot, not just Jorge, but the pilot.”

“So I was like, I know this kid’s a street kid, you know he’s from New York City, from Washington Heights, he’s Latin, I feel like he’s got some swag on him, would you mind if I did a rap?” Jonny said. “She was like, ‘What?’ … It was just like a time thing so I kind of really threw it at her and she was like, ‘Okay, go for it.’ I did like 16 bars of ‘A Moment For Life’ and she was like, ‘Wow, okay,’ and she put it on my packet.”

“That could have gone so wrong, but it ended up working in my favor!”