Natalie Walker's "Audition" Videos

About

Natalie Walker's "Audition" Videos are a series of parodies made by comedian and online personality Natalie Walker in which she spoofs clichéd roles for women in Hollywood movies, often by delivering monologues as a type of character with self-referential jokes to the trope.

Origin

On May 27th, 2016, Walker tweeted a video of her "auditioning" for a role as "lady w British accent who so fiercely supports the difficult man she loves," gaining over 170 retweets and 2,100 likes (shown below).

Spread

Over the course of the following two years, she uploaded several more "audition" parodies. The most popular parodies were her videos for "lady we hate because she is temporarily keepin the people w the symmetrical faces from bein together," gaining over 1,300 retweets and 7,300 likes (shown below, top) and "lady who is married to the great white man who is solving racism forever all by himself," gaining 1,200 retweets and 6,600 likes (shown below, bottom).

After the latter video was posted on July 24th, 2018, Walker's series began seeing coverage from news outlets, including Paste^[1] and Dazed Digital,^[2] the latter of which interviewed Walker. There, she explained the idea for the first short came from an Oscars party where two of her friends dressed in early 20th century British fashion and told people they were both The Theory of Everything and The Imitation Game.

Various Examples

In honor of Women’s History Month and the Oscars, here is my audition to be in a movie as lady who is sort of there while men who have names are doing a very important war pic.twitter.com/FOXDZSANrG

— Natalie Walker (@nwalks) March 4, 2018

One more Oscars audition to be in a movie as lady who loves social mores and takes huge journey from droll bemusement to vague annoyance pic.twitter.com/kVTJE4IVxS

— Natalie Walker (@nwalks) March 4, 2018

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