{"id":117252,"date":"2025-09-03T17:33:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117252\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T17:33:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:33:08","slug":"domhnall-gleeson-recalls-flubbing-english-accent-on-harry-potter-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/117252\/","title":{"rendered":"Domhnall Gleeson recalls flubbing English accent on ‘Harry Potter’ set"},"content":{"rendered":"

There wasn\u2019t a spell in the world that could\u2019ve helped Domhnall Gleeson<\/a> on his first day on the Harry Potter<\/a> set.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Irish actor, who starred as the eldest Weasley brother Bill in the film series, explained during a recent visit to Late Night<\/a> that his attempts to pull off his character\u2019s English accent went completely off the rails during his first few scenes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cMy first day on that set, I was meant to be doing an English accent,\u201d Gleeson explained to host Seth Meyers<\/a>. \u201cThey\u2019d all been doing it \u2014\u00a0I was in the seventh and eighth movies, only a small part. And\u2026 I went Australian. And I couldn\u2019t stop.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

Domhnall Gleeson and Cl\u00e9mence Po\u00e9sy as Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour in ‘Harry Potter’.
\nEverett Collection<\/p>\n

In fact, he was so aggressively Australian that the director of the final two Harry Potter films, David Yates, had to speak with him about it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI went Australian on the first take and there was like 300 people on set and the director was there like, \u2018Cut!\u2019 And this weird, long pause,\u201d Gleeson recalled. \u201cAnd then the director came over and he was like, \u2018So you\u2019ve gone Australian.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t just Yates that had noticed his drawl, either.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone knows he\u2019s gone Australian. And I was like, \u2018No, I know,\u2019\u2019 he teased, adopting an Australian accent. \u201cAnd he was like, \u2018Is there anything you can do about it?\u2019 \u2018Not really mate. I think this is what we\u2019re doing.\u2019\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Gleeson continued, \u201cIt was shocking. It was one of the worst days of my life. And then things got a little bit better. And so I hope my American accent in this [The Paper] is better, but you tell me!\u201d \u00a0\n<\/p>\n

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Meyers joked that it\u2019s especially tough when adapting a book to screen \u201cbecause you can\u2019t have your agent call in and be like, \u2018Could it be Australian?\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I was also playing one of the Weasley brothers, so he\u2019s got bright red hair,\u201d Gleeson replied. \u201cIf he\u2019s Australian, Mrs. Weasley has been doing some[thing], you know what I mean? Something\u2019s been up.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Gleeson starred as Bill in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which was split into two parts and released in 2010 and 2011. A curse-breaker by trade, Bill returned to help Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe<\/a>) and the Order of the Phoenix \u2014\u00a0which included Hermione Granger (Emma Watson<\/a>), brothers Ron (Rupert Grint<\/a>), Fred (James Phelps), George (Oliver Phelps), and sister Ginny (Bonnie Wright<\/a>) \u2014\u00a0face off against the evil Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes<\/a>) and his Death Eaters in the deadly Battle of Hogwarts.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

His character is one of the few Weasley children that has not yet been officially cast <\/a>in the upcoming Harry Potter television adaptation. Alastair Stout<\/a>\u00a0has been cast as Ron, with Tristan and Gabriel Harland joining him as Fred and George, Ruari Spooner as Percy, and Gracie Cochrane as Ginny.\n<\/p>\n

These days, Gleeson has traded his wand for a quill on Peacock\u2019s newest sitcom, The Paper<\/a>.<\/a> The series, which is a spinoff of the American version of The Office<\/a>, was recently renewed for a second season ahead of its Sept. 4 debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Watch Gleeson discuss his accent in the clip above.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There wasn\u2019t a spell in the world that could\u2019ve helped Domhnall Gleeson on his first day on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,337],"class_list":["post-117252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}