Watch Kevin Spacey’s Fantastic 1979 Audition For ‘Tiger Beat’ Magazine

Kevin Spacey dropped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night where he was greeted with a clip from a 1979 NBC News report, broadcast from a Tiger Beat “Teenage Idol” cattle call and featuring none other than the fresh-faced kid who eventually become the diabolical Frank Underwood. Spacey told Kimmel that he did not, in fact, get that gig, probably because he was about 20 years old at the time and “dressed like Humphrey Bogart.”

To be honest, he reads a little more like Inspector Gadget to me, but even if Inspector Gadget had existed in 1979, I can’t imagine that would have helped his case, either.

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