“Yeah, it was a bad choice,” the “Westworld” star said.

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Bad auditions can haunt an actor years later just askJames Marsden.

HostMark Consuelosasked Marsden about the time he auditioned for the sketch comedy series.

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Marsden quipped of the tryout, “If you’re free to call it that.”

I think they made us do…

It wasnt even something like, Create an interesting character, or whatever.

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It was like, Do whatever silly thing you want to do.

Yeah, it was a bad choice, he added with a laugh.

Needless to say, he didn’t get the part.

And she goes, Oh, well, youll host at some point.

And I said, No, as a regular.

I wanna be the guys!

She was like, Well, you probably can if you want to, he said.

But yeah, I just love doing impressions and different characters.

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