Frankie Boyle auditioned to play Marcus in the Borderlands movie

Controversial comedian Frankie Boyle says he auditioned to play Marcus in the Borderlands movie.

In the latest episode of the Here Comes the Guillotine podcast, which Boyle co-hosts with fellow comedians Susie McCabe and Christopher MacArthur-Boyd, the trio were discussing Cate Blanchett when her role in Borderlands was brought up.

“That game, Borderlands, Cate Blanchett is in that movie,” Boyle said. “And I did a… what’s it called when you do a video audition?”

“Oh, you did a self-tape? For Borderlands” MacArthur-Boyd asked him.

“I did a self-tape,” Boyle confirmed. “Yeah, my daughter taped it for me. I didn’t get it.”

“What was your character?” MacArthur-Boyd asked.

“The guy who introduces them to the… ‘welcome to the fucking Borderlands’,” he replied. “Welcome to place I’ve forgot the name of.”

“That would have been amazing,” McCabe commented.

“It would have been amazing,” Boyle replied. “I shaved my moustache perfectly, but they didn’t give me it.”

Boyle was almost certainly referring to Marcus Kincaid, the bus driver at the start of Borderlands who brings the original four Vault Hunters to the town of Fyrestone.

The role was instead given to Benjamin Byron Davis, a veteran TV actor best known to video game players as Dutch van der Linde in Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2.

Set to hit cinemas later this week, the Borderlands movie stars Cate Blanchett as Lilith, as well as Kevin Hart as Roland, Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis, Ariana Greenblatt as Tiny Tina and the voice of Jack Black as Claptrap.