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Beechwoodspark

So I was flicking through the channels and happened across a cringeworthy and overall crap sitcom (although not at all funny) on sky one called

The Reluctant Landlord

It really is p1ss poor. Also It features a terrible actress with an obviously fake Irish accent. I am guessing she is southern English(Kent or Sussex or some such) but open to correction.

Is this a new thing? The English trying to ape an Irish accent rather than employing an Irish actor?

Any other examples?

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JustAYoungLad

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

So I was flicking through the channels and happened across a cringeworthy and overall crap sitcom (although not at all funny) on sky one called

The Reluctant Landlord

It really is p1ss poor. Also It features a terrible actress with an obviously fake Irish accent. I am guessing she is southern English(Kent or Sussex or some such) but open to correction.

Is this a new thing? The English trying to ape an Irish accent rather than employing an Irish actor?

Any other examples?

Whoa. Someone pretending to be someone else? Almost like theyre acting or something...

Noveight

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

The English trying to ape an Irish accent

Saoirse Rónan, basically.

0lddog

OP, do you mean people like Micheál Mac Liammóir ?

Guy:Incognito

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

It really is p1ss poor. Also It features a terrible actress with an obviously fake Irish accent. I am guessing she is southern English(Kent or Sussex or some such) but open to correction.

Ah yes, that notorious southern softie Yasmine Akram https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmine_Akram

Harry Palmr

Daniel Day Lewis.

marcbrophy

Shay Cormac from the Assassin's Creed Rogue game always stood out as woeful to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBe6pRdpVh4

Your man's Canadian!

Gwynplaine

Aidan Gillen

AllForIt

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Daniel Day Lewis.

To be fair I think it is the Irish that attempt to claim him as one of 'ours'.

Roger Hassenforder

Have we been culturally appropriated?

[Deleted User]

The girl that played the lead character in "blood" is English and you would never guess, her accent was excellent, I assumed she was Irish

YFlyer

Brad Pitt.

darlett

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Ah yes, that notorious southern softie Yasmine Akram https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmine_Akram

Wow! Thats fairly embarrassing for the op!

Dominique McElligott in House of Cards.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers Henry VIII in the Tudors.
Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders.

Am i doing it right? All these featured english roles pretending to be Irish actors and actresses. Its a disgrace.

Jessie Belle

Fair city?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

I believe Tom Cruise in Far and Away is the current holder of the official all-tine worst Irish accent in cinematic history

StupidLikeAFox

Remember Sean Connery in the hunt for red October? Played a Russian army general with a full on Scottish accent

Wheety

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Ah yes, that notorious southern softie Yasmine Akram https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasmine_Akram

Guess the OP won't be back :-D

Zaph

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

I believe Tom Cruise in Far and Away is the current holder of the official all-tine worst Irish accent in cinematic history

Nah, Julia Roberts in Michael Collins has to take that title. Her accent was never from the same part of the country in two consecutive scenes. I believe she's even worse in Mary Reilly, but I haven't seen that.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Zaph wrote: »

Nah, Julia Roberts in Michael Collins has to take that title. Her accent was never from the same part of the country in two consecutive scenes. I believe she's even worse in Mary Reilly, but I haven't seen that.

I can accept that, but I didn't judge the competition!

zapitastas

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

I believe Tom Cruise in Far and Away is the current holder of the official all-tine worst Irish accent in cinematic history

Tom cruise actually had a decent irish accent but was made to opt for the stage Irish one for the movie.

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

The lad who played Escobar in Narcos probably has the worst accent in TV or cinema. He didn't even speak Spanish when they started making the show. It's like casting a German with poor English as Michael Collins.

Atoms for Peace

Peirce Brosnan's Irish accent is woeful.

gormdubhgorm

From the sons of anarchy about four years ago - Titus Welliver

gormdubhgorm

Atoms for Peace wrote: »

Peirce Brosnan's Irish accent is woeful.

He's from Meath....

Edit - I get it now

bodhrandude

darlett wrote: »

Wow! Thats fairly embarrassing for the op!

Dominique McElligott in House of Cards.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers Henry VIII in the Tudors.
Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders.

Am i doing it right? All these featured english roles pretending to be Irish actors and actresses. Its a disgrace.

Cillian Murphy is Irish, did you never see Ken Loach's The Wind the shakes the barley.

gormdubhgorm

bodhrandude wrote: »

Cillian Murphy is Irish, did you never see Ken Loach's The Wind the shakes the barley.

Oh I see in that wiki link the actress the OP is referring was a woman raised in Drogheda but born in the UAE...

FanadMan

Beechwoodspark wrote: »

So I was flicking through the channels and happened across a cringeworthy and overall crap sitcom (although not at all funny) on sky one called

The Reluctant Landlord

It really is p1ss poor. Also It features a terrible actress with an obviously fake Irish accent. I am guessing she is southern English(Kent or Sussex or some such) but open to correction.

Is this a new thing? The English trying to ape an Irish accent rather than employing an Irish actor?

Any other examples?

Aww bless! The poor young'un thinks this is something new

Larbre34

StupidLikeAFox wrote: »

Remember Sean Connery in the hunt for red October? Played a Russian army general with a full on Scottish accent

Army General? Have you even seen THFRO?

Battleshtashions!

thesandeman

Sally O'Brien and the way she might look at ya.

She didn't need an accent.

Well she did for 'Allo 'Allo.

Cookie_Monster

Larbre34 wrote: »

Army General? Have you even seen THFRO?

and he was Lithuanian...

Tom Mann Centuria

bodhrandude wrote: »

Cillian Murphy is Irish, did you never see Ken Loach's The Wind the shakes the barley.

All of those Irish actors listed were playing English people. The poster was saying it isn't unusual for actors to use accents of other nations.