If you’re a professional actor, you’ve probably had a few bad auditions in your life — and whether you book the role or not, a bad audition is downright embarrassing. For example, Domhnall Gleeson, who currently stars in Peacock’s original series “The Paper,” is apparently still haunted by his audition for the “Harry Potter” film franchise, in which he briefly played Bill Weasley.
During an appearance on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” (via Entertainment Weekly), Gleeson – who is Irish and also happens to be the son of Brendan Gleeson, a famous Irish actor who Also appeared in the “Harry Potter” films as Alastor “Mad-Eye” Moody – said he went to audition for Bill, ready to adopt a traditional British accent, but went in a…oddly Southern direction. “My first day on this set, I was supposed to have an English accent,” Gleeson told Meyers. “They had all done it – I was in the seventh and eighth films, only a small role. And… I became Australian. And I couldn’t stop.”
As Gleeson tells it, he chose an Australian accent, to never mind That’s why director David Yates finally stepped in. “I went Australian on the first take and there were about 300 people on set and the director was there and said ‘Cut!’ And this long, strange pause,” Gleeson continued. “And then the director [Yates] came over and he said to me, “So you’ve become Australian. » » Apparently, Yates was far of the only person to notice Gleeson’s Australian tone. As Gleeson recalls:
“Everyone knows he became Australian. And I was like [adopts an Australian accent]’No, I know.’ And he asked me, “Is there anything you can do about this?” » “Not really, buddy. I think that’s what we do.'”
“It was shocking,” Gleeson concluded. “It was one of the worst days of my life. And then things got a little better. And so I hope my American accent [on ‘The Paper’] It’s better, but you tell me!”
Meyers, of course, addressed the bigger picture, saying that when you’re auditioning for an adaptation of a very famous book, you can’t exactly “have your agent call and say, ‘Could it be Australian?’ » » Gleeson was up for it. “Well, I also played one of the Weasley brothers, so he has bright red hair,” Gleeson joked. “If he’s Australian, Mrs. Weasley [played by Julie Walters] did some[thing]you know what I mean? Something happened.”
