By Chris Snellgrove
| Revealed 27 seconds in the past
Whereas critics might hate their bobby vibe, NSYNC is arguably the very best boy band on the earth, particularly when you think about the later cultural and musical affect of breakout star Justin Timberlake. Surprisingly, again when NSYNC was of their prime, this better of boy bands appeared in what is likely to be the worst Star Wars film. On a 2023 episode of Scorching Ones, the band confirmed that they had been initially going to look in Assault of the Clones however that their cameo was finally minimize out of the movie.
Bye Bye Bye, NSYNC In Star Wars
A part of Scorching Ones’ appeal is the nice questions posed by host Sean Evans, and on this episode, he finally requested NSYNC about whether or not they starred within the second Star Wars prequel. He requested in the event that they had been actually going to play Jedi Knights within the movie, and Lance Bass identified that it wasn’t the whole thing of the band that almost made a cameo look…simply Chris Kirkpatrick, JC Chasez, and Joey Fatone. Nonetheless, Kirkpatrick instantly identified the plain about their cameo: “it by no means made it to the display.”
NSYNC members Lance Bass and Justin Timberlake recalled their annoyance at not getting the preliminary invite to look within the second Star Wars prequel. “Me and Lance had been so butthurt,” Timberlake mentioned. That prompted Bass to supply a really evenhanded response: “they bought minimize out anyway, so it doesn’t even matter.”
NSYNC Bought So Shut To Star Wars
The truth that NSYNC practically appeared in a Star Wars movie despatched ripples by way of the fan neighborhood years in the past (extra on this quickly), however even most superfans don’t understand how shut the boy band got here to showing in Assault of the Clones. They really acquired combat coaching, the sort that might guarantee they seemed at the very least midway convincing when thrust into the movie’s climactic Battle of Geonosis. Joey Fatone sheepishly admitted that the coaching additionally sounded convincing as a result of “after we had been doing the scenes,” the musicians had been “actually…going ‘voom voom’ like an fool.”
Apparently, the one motive that NSYNC was invited to look in Assault of the Clones within the first place is that Star Wars producer Rick McCallum’s daughter was an enormous fan of the band. The cameo was minimize for 2 causes, the primary being SAG-AFTRA guidelines about extras. Joey Fatone later admitted that “Often, they need to pay the SAG rights to it” and “We solely signed a confidential factor — which we didn’t say something — however they needed to minimize us out of it.”
Whereas a bit fuzzy, Fatone’s story helps clarify why NSYNC didn’t seem within the second Star Wars prequel. Specifically, that George Lucas and crew didn’t need to have any SAG-related drama. There was one different motive they bought minimize, although, and it was revealed by Fatone’s brother Steve again in 2015. Principally, the band’s look in Assault of the Clones was rumored properly earlier than the film got here out, and it generated such a backlash amongst followers that their look (full with Jedi robes and padawan braids) was canceled altogether.
In hindsight, killing NSYNC’s Star Wars cameo was for the very best. On the time, the fandom was already reeling from the poor high quality of The Phantom Menace. After that first prequel, was a lot hypothesis about whether or not or not George Lucas had misplaced the artistic imaginative and prescient that led him to create this well-known galaxy far, distant within the first place. Fortuitously, Lucas helped say “Bye, Bye, Bye” to that hypothesis by chopping the band out of the movie altogether.
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