“So right as I’m about to go in for the audition I notice there was this one little spot on my dress and I was like, ‘Oh no, did I drop water on here?’ Anyway I go in. Lawson went on to explain that she wore a bra specifically for the audition, which was padded with a gel-like substance and had exploded as she read her lines. It was very hush-hush when I went in for it and they didn’t tell me which part it was for and I wasn’t sure specifically who she was going to be, but I believe it was one of the prostitutes,” she said. I was super excited about auditioning for it. “There was this wonderful, wonderful part on Westworld and I just love the subject matter, of AI and the difference between humans and a robots. Lawson didn’t reveal which role she auditioned for (in fact, the directors didn’t even tell her), she just knew it was a host that was also a prostitute (so it could’ve been Maeve or Clementine) and that she didn’t do well in the audition room. The actress told the Chicago Tribune in 2018 that one of her worst auditions was for Westworld. Lawson is best known for teen shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dawson’s Creek and Pretty Little Liars, but she could’ve had a very adult role in Westworld. Image: Michael Buckner/Variety/Shutterstock. So that was fine, when you can’t do something and you see a really good performance. So when I saw the pilot, and I saw…Oh, God, who plays him again? Oh, I love it, it’s a beautiful performance. Is it Peter Abernathy, I think it is? I was asked to play him. And then they offered to have me play the farmer. He continued, “Originally what was talked about was the Man in Black. So then, finally Jonah remembered me and then yeah, years later they offered me the other part.” I was really, really upset because I really wanted to do the Westworld pilot but I couldn’t do it. “So I couldn’t do it and I was devastated. I was all set to do it and then they changed the dates of it and by that time I had already committed to another film,” he said. In an interview with Vulture, Mullan revealed that he was first offered the role for the Man in Black, played by Ed Harris. Westworld fans may recognize Peter Mullan as James Delos, a recurring role in the HBO series, but the actor actually auditioned for one of the main roles. Game of Thrones, the part that Jonathan Pryce did.
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“I went in for Westworld for Anthony Hopkins’s part. It’s a very odd thing to find out who ends up doing stuff that you ,” he said. In the beginning, I didn’t lose parts but I’d get stuff that either Gary Oldman wasn’t interested in, or Phillip Seymour Hoffman wasn’t interested in. He revealed the news in an interview with Vulture, where he also claimed to have auditioned for High Sparrow in Game of Thrones.
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Jared Harris, who’s best known for his roles in Chernobyl and The Crown, also auditioned to play Dr. But it’s Westworld, so anything is possible.) But the role wasn’t always his. (Ford died at the end of season 2, so it’s unclear if Hopkins will reprise the role in season 3. Robert Ford, the director of the Westworld park, was played by Hollywood veteran Anthony Hopkins. Elon Bailey as Logan DelosĪs Westworld fans know, Dr. Find out the actors who were almost cast in Westworld ahead. Some of these actors were recast in other roles, while others went on to other series. The show, whose cast also consists of Tessa Thompson, Luke Hemsworth and Anthony Hopkins, was well-known in Hollywood before its debut, as seen by the many well-known actors who tried out for parts in the series. (In 2018, Newton, who plays Maeve Willay, a Westworld host who learns of her true identity, won the series’ first acting Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress.) But the Westworld cast wasn’t always the four actors mentioned above. The show has since been nominated for Emmys, Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild Awards. Since its debut in October 2016, Westworld‘s cast members-Evan Rachel Wood, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright and Ed Harris-have become even bigger stars than they were before. Westworld, which premieres its third season on March 15, is set in a dystopian future where people hunt and kill human-like robots for a fun a wild, wild west-themed park named Westworld. We can’t picture anyone but James Marsden as hot robot cowboy Teddy, but according to these actors who auditioned or refused roles in Westworld, the cast could’ve looked a lot different.