If you're a professional actor, you've probably had a few bad auditions in your life — and whether or not you book the part, a bad audition is flat-out embarrassing. For example, Domhnall Gleeson, who's currently starring in the Peacock original series "The Paper," is apparently still haunted by his audition for the "Harry Potter" film franchise, in which he briefly plays 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 celebrated Irish actor who also showed up in the "Harry Potter" movies as Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody — said he went in to audition for Bill prepared to do a traditional British accent, but went in a ... weirdly Southern direction. "My first day on t

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