The worst 'Irish' accent in a film.

lazygal

I'm nominating Julia Roberts in Michael Collins.

Add yours.

Crooked Jack

Everyone in the second Boondock Saints film

all of them

Gabriel Byrne does some awful ones.

Bad Panda

Tommy Lee Jones in 'Blown Away'. Hands. Fcuking. Down.

Sonics2k

Not so much in a film, but David Boreanaz who played Angel in Buffy.

The only good thing is that he was honest enough to admit it was complete shíte.

Loughc

Tom Cruise, "Far And Away"

Elmer Blooker

Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal

Criminal !!

Diddler1977

Gene Wilder in "Quackser Fortune has a cousin in the Bronx"

For an Aussie I don't think Rod Taylor was too bad in "Young Cassidy"

lazygal

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal

Criminal !!

Yes-was trying to remember that film! Or forget it, rather.

Nux

The Leprechaun in "Leprechaun"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C21l29hurRI

Diddler1977

Sonics2k wrote: »

Not so much in a film, but David Boreanaz who played Angel in Buffy.

The only good thing is that he was honest enough to admit it was complete shíte.

Useless info:
David Boreanaz was married to an Irish woman for a few years. She was from Dublin and was a social worker.

Lollipops23

Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly.

Pebble on the Beach

Gerard Butler in Galway Girl!!

skinny90

Brad Pitt In snatch

Hande hoche!

Richard Gere in the Jackal.

nbar12

Your man Gerard Butler in P.S. I Love You

Gave me sleepless nights for weeks

Xavi6

nbar12 wrote: »

Your man Gerard Butler in P.S. I Love You

Gave me sleepless nights for weeks

Just punishment for watching it in the first place to be fair.

Lollipops23

skinny90 wrote: »

Brad Pitt In snatch

In fairness, he was trying to sound like a traveller. Thought he did a pretty daycent job of it too.

Sonics2k

skinny90 wrote: »

Brad Pitt In snatch

Except he wasn't Irish in that.

Elmer Blooker

lazygal wrote: »

I'm nominating Julia Roberts in Michael Collins.

Add yours.

We'll forgive Julia, she can get away with it.
I thought Aidan Quinn (as Collins' mate Harry Boland) was a lot worse.

nbar12

Xavi6 wrote: »

Just punishment for watching it in the first place to be fair.

ah now, it was a first date, I was hardly going tell her to piss off we're watching Transformers instead

Titus Welliver in Sons of Anarchy.

UDP

Without a doubt it is Pearse Brosnin in any movie that he has played an Irish character.

Hande hoche!

UDP wrote: »

Without a doubt it is Pearse Brosnin in any movie that he has played an Irish character.

He get's a free pass in my book due to the cinematic masterpiece of Taffin.

Pebble on the Beach

Pebble on the Beach wrote: »

Gerard Butler in Galway Girl!!

Ah, silly me .... the film of course is called 'PS I Love You'. I seriously cringe each time it's shown.

fishy fishy

lockie1983 wrote: »

Tom Cruise, "Far And Away"

you'r nosh in Oireland ana more

TobyZiegler

All of the above - especially Gerard Butler - or maybe that was because the film was so unbelievably crap that it was even more annoying.


The Irish accent must be v. difficult to do as you rarely see it done well. I thought that Richard Coyle in Grabbers did a great job of it though.

RikkFlair

Sean Bean in The Field. "What age was Seamie when he died?" was probably his longest line, but he couldn't escape his Sheffield tones :pac:

Also, not a film, but the Irish accents when one of the characters in Heroes ended up in "Cork" (season 2 I think it was?). Oh dear

daveyboy_1ie

Jon Voight in 'The General'. Just no.

Actually seeing an Irishman do a posh English accent was even funnier (Colm Meaney cameo as a pilot in Die Hard 2). Terrible stuff.

wandatowell

The father of the big girl in Shallow Hal. Not good at all.

woof im a dog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4_f-Ht5-vY

old hippy

UDP wrote: »

Without a doubt it is Pearse Brosnin in any movie that he has played an Irish character.

Agreed. Pierce Brosnan, however, is a much better actor.

fishy fishy

all the 'Priests" in any US film.

why do they always have to be irish.

Lollipops23

daveyboy_1ie wrote: »

Jon Voight in 'The General'. Just no.

I thought he did a really good job actually. He certainly sounded more Irish than Pierce Brosnan did in Evelyn.

bullpost

James Cromwell in L.A Confidential was pretty hilarious.

old hippy

bullpost wrote: »

James Cromwell in L.A Confidential was pretty hilarious.

Awesome film, though

Duckworth_Luas

Had this conversation in a bar in Chicago recently with a few movie buffs. They were well aware of how bad the irish and Britsih accents of US actors can be.

What we might not realise is how bad the American accents of Irish & British actors can be. Worst offender in their eyes is Liam Neeson, same accent in every movie!

Ellian

I seem to remember Katie Hudson having a pretty good south Dub accent in About Adam.

ballsymchugh

Hande hoche! wrote: »

He get's a free pass in my book due to the cinematic masterpiece of Taffin.

any excuse to bring you some adam and joe...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXcgt6l_LcA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szuvXF0bLrs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4LMDAnq7UQ

Lanshane

lockie1983 wrote: »

Tom Cruise, "Far And Away"

I'll most definitely second that! Kidman's attempt in second!

nbar12

Tom Hanks in The Commitments

Esox Lucias

The entire cast of Alexander.

I don't know what they were thinking.

ArtyC

The extras any time Jessica fletcher went to Ireland!!! Celtic riddle in cork---- desperate

Duckworth_Luas

nbar12 wrote: »

Tom Hanks in The Commitments

Forgot about that, truely horrendous effort!

Biggins

lockie1983 wrote: »

Tom Cruise, "Far And Away"

Easily that.

The accent is laid on with a trowel!

mikemac1

Lollipops23 wrote: »

In fairness, he was trying to sound like a traveller. Thought he did a pretty daycent job of it too.

It's not English, it's not Irish, it's just pikey

He wasn't trying to be Irish

nbar12 wrote: »

Your man Gerard Butler in P.S. I Love You

He apologized to the Irish nation over that

There's a youtube clip of it somewhere

rugrats

Not so much a film, but this ad beats them all

That's why I use it toooooo

SerialComplaint

Elmer Blooker wrote: »

Kevin Spacey in Ordinary Decent Criminal

Criminal !!

lockie1983 wrote: »

Tom Cruise, "Far And Away"

Two right doozies there all right. Jim Broadbent in Perrier's Bounty was desperate - he's normally such a brilliant actor, it really pi$$ed me off. It added nothing to his character either. He could easily have stayed with his native accent.

MakeEmLaugh

In fairness, Julia Robert's accent in Michael Collins was far from the worst. Neither was Jon Voight's in The General.

We, as Irish people, are accustomed to pick up any slight digression from what we imagine an accent should be. If you'd never heard of Colin Farrell but knew he was from Ireland and saw Ondine, you'd probably think, "he must be from around that region."

But because we all know Colin Farrell is a Dubliner, many people pounced on his Kerry accent in that.

Personally, the most distractingly-bad Irish accent in a film, for me, was Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York (Leonardo DiCaprio would not be far behind). Considering that movie was tackling such epic subject matter, and made by Martin Scorsese, it should have been brilliant, but any time those two spoke, it dragged me right out of the film.

And please don't say, "well, they were Irish people who'd moved to America" as an explanation for how crap their accents were.

Ghost Buster

skinny90 wrote: »

Brad Pitt In snatch

Oh but that wasnt an irish accent. That was a traveller accent and they are a separate ethnic grouping yadda yadda etc