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Chris O'Dowd's correction of interviewer who called him "British"

  • 08-09-2012 10:00AM
    #1
    MakeEmLaugh
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    Not to invoke heedless Anglophobia, but Chris O'Dowd correction of this interviewer (47 seconds in) when she calls him a "British actor" is the epitome of how it should be done.

    Concise, firm and discreet.

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  • #2
    jellygems
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    Good man Chris, what is with the British claiming all the good ones.... I bet they wouldnt call Shane McGowan British :rolleyes:


  • #3
    squod
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    Funny guy


  • #4
    TeddyTedson
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    He corrected her, by correcting her. Brilliant :p


  • #5
    mikemac1
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    Such a strange accent

    I knew a few from Roscommon but none of them speak like that

    Strange in a good way


  • #6
    TeddyTedson
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    jellygems wrote: »
    Good man Chris, what is with the British claiming all the good ones.... I bet they wouldn't call Shane McGowan British :rolleyes:
    Well the Irish are not exactly the best in this regard either. We try and claim and awful lot of people too. You even hear people Wayne Rooney Irish. Should we then be calling Katie Taylor British?
    It's just that globally we have less enemies so to speak than the Brits so people don't mind being called Irish.


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  • #7
    Micky Dolenz
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    I'm outraged, I'm going to write a strongly worded email to someone.


  • #8
    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    Such a strange accent

    I knew a few from Roscommon but none of them speak like that

    Strange in a good way

    He's pretty much been living in London for the last ten years, I think. So it's probably got a bit more English since.


  • #9
    Colmustard
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    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Good lord, who gives a fukc, why does this only seem to matter to the Irish.

    Him being an Irish actor does absolutely nothing to improve my life.


  • #10
    MakeEmLaugh
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    Marilyn Helpful Rambler wrote: »
    He's pretty much been living in London for the last ten years, I think. So it's probably got a bit more English since.

    I'm from Sligo, near Ballymote, which is one stop over from Boyle on the train, and I don't think there's anything unusual about Chris O'Dowd's accent. Lots of people in Roscommon talk like that.

    I don't pick up an English inflection, the way you do with Irish actors like Jonathan Rhys Meyers or Ruth Negga.


  • #11
    Sappa
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    This does not deserve its own thread.


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  • #12
    El Horseboxo
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    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    jellygems wrote: »
    Good man Chris, what is with the British claiming all the good ones.... I bet they wouldn't call Shane McGowan British :rolleyes:
    Well the Irish are not exactly the best in this regard either. We try and claim and awful lot of people too. You even hear people Wayne Rooney Irish. Should we then be calling Katie Taylor British?
    It's just that globally we have less enemies so to speak than the Brits so people don't mind being called Irish.

    Yeah but Ireland seem to do it when there is an ancestral link to the country. Still a bit cringeworthy. Especially the Obama one. Whereas the British seem to do it geographically because they think Ireland and Britain is one and the same.


  • #13
    MakeEmLaugh
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    Sappa wrote: »
    This does not deserve its own thread.

    This does not deserve its own comment.


  • #14
    Fromthetrees
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    We claim Obama as Irish for the love of god.
    We can't get bitchy about stuff like this.
    If he's ever involved in some scandal the headlines in britland will be "Irish actor Chris...", that's the issue I'd have with it.

    He's a funny guy.


  • #15
    girl2
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    Colmustard wrote: »
    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Good lord, who gives a fukc, why does this only seem to matter to the Irish.

    Him being an Irish actor does absolutely nothing to improve my life.

    Oh come on, the British took enough. We're not lettin them take Chris or Katie or anyone else for that matter. And fair play to those of us all for feeling strong about it.


  • #16
    sunflower27
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    Hahaha

    She sounded a tad peeved at being picked up on it :D


  • #17
    Ghost Buster
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    Colmustard wrote: »
    :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

    Good lord, who gives a fukc, why does this only seem to matter to the Irish.

    Him being an Irish actor does absolutely nothing to improve my life.
    Obviously it only matters to the Irish in the same way that calling an Australian a Czech would matter to the Australians or calling an Estonian Spanish would only matter to Estonians.
    Have journalists a major issue with knowing a teeny tiny bit of geography and perhaps a smidge of their own history?


  • #18
    anncoates
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    MakeEmLaugh wrote: »
    Not to invoke heedless Anglophobia,

    Lol


  • #19
    BQQ
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    Fromthetrees wrote: »
    We claim Obama as Irish for the love of god.
    We can't get bitchy about stuff like this.

    Ah, c'mon. That's only a bit of craic. Not the same thing at all.

    Can you imagine an interviewer asking Obama "as an Irish politician, how did you feel working in Washington?" like in the video above?


  • #20
    Ghost Buster
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    BQQ wrote: »
    Ah, c'mon. That's only a bit of craic. Not the same thing at all.

    Can you imagine an interviewer asking Obama "as an Irish politician, how did you feel working in Washington?" like in the video above?
    Realisticly we only claim that Obama has irish roots and its only the Americans who really give a fiddlers about such stuff seing as they are such a young recently colonised nation. As you say, its mostly only crack. Totally different to calling a buck from Boyle 'a british actor'.


  • #21
    forfcksake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭forfcksake


    It says he's from Sligo on his wiki page, thought he was from Boyle in Roscommon?


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  • #22
    Duckworth_Luas
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    forfcksake wrote: »
    It says he's from Sligo on his wiki page, thought he was from Boyle in Roscommon?
    Sligo people, always claiming Roscommon celebrities as their own! Wait until a dead, drugged up hooker is found in his swimming pool, he'll be back to being a Rossie then!


  • #23
    Duggys Housemate
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    To be fair she could use "British actor" moving to Hollywood as British resident actor or actor in British TV. That's the shorthand she's using.


  • #24
    TeddyTedson
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    I really like Chris O'Dowd. He's a lovably character!
    But, if he hadn't of corrected her there it would have been bad form.
    She probably just made a bit of a slip of the tongue, but you need to correct people in those situations regardless.

    Chris seems like a no bull**** sort of guy. Wasn't offended by it or find it a big deal just educated the interviewer and prevented people been misinformed.

    I think it's how most reasonable people would react though.


  • #25
    [Deleted User]
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    Wait.. who is claiming Obama as Irish?


  • #26
    Duckworth_Luas
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Wait.. who is claiming Obama as Irish?
    Jedward?


  • #27
    holystungun9
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    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    I'm outraged, I'm going to write a strongly worded email to someone.

    You do know that my inbox now just labels your mails as spam? The google spam squad should be abseiling and busting through your windows riigghht aboouut.......NOW!


  • #28
    Biggins
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    MakeEmLaugh wrote: »
    Not to invoke heedless Anglophobia, but Chris O'Dowd correction of this interviewer (47 seconds in) when she calls him a "British actor" is the epitome of how it should be done.

    Concise, firm and discreet.

    Yea, ok...

    NEXT!


  • #29
    MakeEmLaugh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭MakeEmLaugh


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    Well the Irish are not exactly the best in this regard either. We try and claim and awful lot of people too. You even hear people Wayne Rooney Irish. Should we then be calling Katie Taylor British?
    Fromthetrees wrote: »
    We claim Obama as Irish for the love of god.
    We can't get bitchy about stuff like this.

    You're missing the point entirely. This isn't about 'claiming' someone based on their ancestry. It's about an Irish person being called British, to his face, and choosing to correct the person doing so.


  • #30
    starbelgrade
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    forfcksake wrote: »
    It says he's from Sligo on his wiki page, thought he was from Boyle in Roscommon?

    He is, but the hospital in Sligo is only about 35 minutes from Boyle.


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  • #31
    Micky Dolenz
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    holystungun9 wrote: »
    You do know that my inbox now just labels your mails as spam? The google spam squad should be abseiling and busting through your windows riigghht aboouut.......NOW!


    Heh, time to change email address................again.


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