As linked by Pitchfork, Beck interviewed Will Ferrell for his blog. Read the full thing here.

Here’s an excerpt:

W: I actually auditioned for Cirque du Soleil at one point.

B: You did?

W: I’m just having a memory. Because they were doing the current version of whatever the current traveling show is down at the South Coast Plaza in Orange County and that’s when I was living back at home in Irvine post-college days and they had an open call for clowns and mimes (laughs) which I had no experience in but I thought “Let’s just get in there and see what happens” and they already had the big tent set up and then I can’t even remember what? They had people go up in groups and pretend to kind of do whatever they thought they should do but I never got a callback so… oh well.

B: What did you do? Did you have to dress up?

W: No, no, no. I think that they were just trying to teach you some basic Commedia kind of moves and…

B: Dell’Arte?

W: Yeah. But I never got a follow up call so I guess I did not have what they were looking for. (laughing) That certain unspoken European, French-Canadian…

B: Pizzazz?

W: Yeah, yeah.

Beck is a Scientologist.