Celebrities who put on a fake their accent 24/7

retro:electro · 30-01-2019 7:30pm

tupenny wrote: »

Saoirse Ronan also

She actually doesn’t. There was an audio clip of her on Graham Norton a few weeks back from when she won a competition on Gerry Ryan’s radio show when she was like 8 and she sounded exactly the same.

KevinCavan · 30-01-2019 9:27pm

Pat Kenny though nice to listen to completely learnt his accent. He was an inner city kid.

Stovepipe · 30-01-2019 9:49pm

retro:electro wrote: »

She actually doesn’t. There was an audio clip of her on Graham Norton a few weeks back from when she won a competition on Gerry Ryan’s radio show when she was like 8 and she sounded exactly the same.

She's from Carlow but doesn't really have a heavy, flat "Carla" accent. Incidentally, she was criticised in some media about her Scottish accent in the Mary Queen of Scots film, because Mary had been raised and schooled in France and was known (from written records of the time) to speak with a pronounced French accent. Ye can't win!

Stovepipe · 30-01-2019 9:51pm

KevinCavan wrote: »

I heard him admitting on his show that he was told to lose the strong Cork accent and got elocution classes in order to lose it.

He's dead right. Quite a few Irish TV people have had elocution and speech lessons to get rid of heavy local accents, that would be unintelligible to the greater mass of the audience.

retro:electro · 30-01-2019 9:54pm

Stovepipe wrote: »

She's from Carlow but doesn't really have a heavy, flat "Carla" accent.

Probably because her parents are as Dub as Dubs can be. Her mam is from Cabra and her dad is from Crumlin. She actually grew up in Dublin and only went to school in Carlow briefly.

Stovepipe · 30-01-2019 9:55pm

An Ri rua wrote: »

Bang on about David Norris and Clare Daly.

Clare Daly was a shop steward for loaders and cleaners in Dublin Airport, so any posh accent would have been knocked out of her fast, so her accent is accurate. She was a tough player as a union rep, which is why she's the way she is in the Dail. You don't have to like her, but if she's fighting your corner, she'll give it her all. If more TDs had a bit of spine like her, we'd have a better classo fpolitical representation.

Stovepipe · 30-01-2019 9:57pm

retro:electro wrote: »

Probably because her parents are as Dub as Dubs can be. Her mam is from Cabra and her dad is from Crumlin. She actually grew up in Dublin and only went to school in Carlow briefly.

Good friends of mine are friends of theirs and have told me that Saoirse is completely down to earth and the real deal and has long been kept normal by her parents, who are not "luvvies".

elperello · 30-01-2019 10:13pm

People come to live in Ireland and take the edge off their native accent with a bit of brogue and we say fair play to them.

Irish people go abroad and pick up a bit of the local accent and phraseology and we say who do they think they are.

Go figure

appledrop · 30-01-2019 10:25pm

Michelle Loose Cafeteria wrote: »

She has a very strong Dublin accent though, despite never having lived there. She sounds more like someone who grew up in a working class area of Dublin, than someone who grew up in a rural area with parents originally from Dublin.

It is definitely exagerrated. I really like her acting but can't stand listening to get on talk shows. Accent very fake.

appledrop · 30-01-2019 10:28pm

Colin Farrell. Trys to sound like he grew up in tough working class area 8n Dublin. He is from Castleknock:rolleyes:

NSAman · 30-01-2019 10:29pm

Twink!!!!!

Zip up yer.....

orourkeda1977 · 31-01-2019 2:50pm

Deleted User wrote: »

On the Graham Norton show recently they played a clip of saoirse talking on the radio when she was a little child (she'd won a competition) and her accent was exactly the same as it is now!

Awww I'm like Irrrrriiiiiiissssssssh. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

CrankyHaus · 31-01-2019 4:40pm

Stovepipe wrote: »

You don't have to like her, but if she's fighting your corner, she'll give it her all. If more TDs had a bit of spine like her, we'd have a better classo fpolitical representation.

The Haely-Raes seem to give it their all fighting Kerry's corner. Not sure how many would describe them as a better class of political representation.

rossie1977 · 31-01-2019 5:12pm

retro:electro wrote: »

Probably because her parents are as Dub as Dubs can be. Her mam is from Cabra and her dad is from Crumlin. She actually grew up in Dublin and only went to school in Carlow briefly.

Yeah she sounds really North inner city Dubliner here

retro:electro · 31-01-2019 5:15pm

I know, and in Atonement she sounds British!
She’s fierce confused god love her.

:rolleyes:

ohnonotgmail · 31-01-2019 5:38pm

retro:electro wrote: »

I know, and in Atonement she sounds British!
She’s fierce confused god love her.

:rolleyes:

Actress in adopting an accent for a film role shocker.

retro:electro · 31-01-2019 5:42pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Actress in adopting an accent for a film role shocker.

I was joking :pac:

BeerWolf · 31-01-2019 5:51pm

People think I am American when they hear me, Spanish when they see me.

Hmmm

Gwynplaine · 31-01-2019 6:36pm

Aidan Gillen. The only Irishman who can't do an Irish accent.

ohnonotgmail · 31-01-2019 8:30pm

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Aidan Gillen. The only man who can't do an accent.

He cant even do the same accent in consecutive sentences. I'm pretty sure i've heard him change accent mid sentence

Ipso · 31-01-2019 9:00pm

Gwynplaine wrote: »

Aidan Gillen. The only Irishman who can't do an Irish accent.

Don't forget Pierce Brosnan.

Franz Von Peppercorn · 31-01-2019 9:08pm

appledrop wrote: »

It is definitely exagerrated. I really like her acting but can't stand listening to get on talk shows. Accent very fake.

Why the Fcuk does anybody think she would put on that accent? Do you think that over in the US, or the U.K., a strong Dublin accent is necessary for success?

orourkeda1977 · 01-02-2019 1:47pm

fryup wrote: »

Gordon Ramsey,

comes from rough Glasgow and speaks posh southern english??? whats that about?

He was raised in Stratford upon avon

smilerf · 17-03-2024 10:23am

Arthur giujoun or whatever his name is

He left Armenia 30 years ago

He couldn't possibly still have an accent

beachhead · 17-03-2024 10:39am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/109297052#Comment_109297052

Yar from Gaalwaay?

JupiterKid · 17-03-2024 5:38pm

Hilary Clinton comes to mind here.

During the campaign for the 1992 US Presidential election when Bill Clinton was then Governor of Arkansas, she had this inflected southern drawl if you look at old news footage from that era, despite coming from a well-to-do middle class Chicago background.

Funnily enough, she seemed to lose it very quickly after becoming First Lady during Bill’s first term as President.