The Mighty Celt is a new Pearse Elliott flick based in Northern Ireland. What caught my attention is that Scully (Gillian Anderson, X-Files) stars in it, and must imitate the Belfast brogue. (Robert Carlyle is there too btw)
This leads me to a segment I like to call “Actors who impersonate an Irish accent and deserve to be forced to wear barbed wire knickers”.
Here are the nominees for “Actors who impersonate an Irish accent and deserve to be forced to wear barbed wire knickers”
- Tom Cruise & Nicole Kidman in “Far and Away”
- Brad Pitt in The Devil’s Own
- Brad Pitt in Snatch
- Val Kilmer in The Ghost and the Darkness
- Richard Gere in The Jackal
- Julia Roberts in Michael Collins
- Sean Bean in Patriot Games
- Daniel Day Lewis in In the Name of the Father
- Sean Connery in The Untouchables
- Colin Farrell in anything
And the winner is … …
Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in “[as] Far and Away [as fucking possible]” *applause*
Who can forget this heart warming tale of Joseph Donnelly (Cruise), a poor Irish farmer seeking revenge after his father’s death, moving to Ameri-kay and falling in love with landlords daughter Shannon (Kidman). This one rated highest on the vomit scale for the accents alone!
Injeye yer nickurs Surr an’ next time yiz butcher our aksent oil get Twaynty ontopov ye.
Honourable mention goes to Brad Pitt in Snatch for doing the best job of the lot.
As a non-Irish, I cannot tell the ‘quality’ of an imitated Irish accent. But do you think that Sean Bean made a bad job in Patriot Games while he was good enough in Ronin and The Field?
Or you didn’t mention those two movies for other reason?
Thanks!
There’s a whole pile of movies which I left out, these are just the ones which came to mind.
In Ronin Sean was British, I forgot he was in The Field.
Just reading the list made me squirm at the memories! And I would agree Pitt made the best effort in Snatch by a long way…
I’d give it to Brad Pitt in The Devil’s Own.
He was close but the Cruise/Kidman combo won through in the end
It would be interesting to compile a pretty comprehensive list and have a vote on it.
I’m a non-Irish but I’m curious how good or bad Gillian was as an imitator of North Irish accent in The Mighty Celt. The reviews mostly praised her. What’s your opinion, maca?
I haven’t see it yet Kiko, but as you said, reviews have been good. I don’t think she could do any worse than those listed above anyway
Hehe. Thanks for answering I like Gillian.She’s very talented and hence underrated, I suppose. Apparently, she’ll be imitating “Israeli English” in “The Last King of Scotland” (a movie devoted to Idi Amin), so I wonder whether guys from there have black lists of the worst accent offenders and whether they will give her a pass.