Star Wars: Dev Patel Recalls Shooting an Audition on His iPhone ✖ Dev Patel is a rising name in Hollywood and sooner or later, it's all but guaranteed he'll become a household name thanks to a role in a massive franchise. He was on the brink of one such role, a movie in the Star Wars franchise, but narrowly missed out. According to Patel himself, he wanted the role for the space opera so bad, he filmed an audition for it while on-set filming another movie. Because of that, Patel had to send in an audition tape recorded on his iPhone during the production of