“Only Murders in the Building” is fun, but please, for the love of all that is Irish, please don’t ever ask a non-Irish actor to do an Irish accent unless it’s been approved by an Irish person. Asking for a nation.
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@paulca Related: As an American director, do not tell a UK actor how to do their UK accent to "sound more British”.
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@uliwitness — Do you have an example? (There are examples of Irish people hamming up their accents too)
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@paulca Not offhand, no.
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@paulca continually amazed by the people in media who can affect an American accent without me noticing that they aren’t American, though.
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@Ashedryden — Yeah, I think it’s about exposure. Certainly in Ireland and the UK we’re exposed to US media from a very young age, whereas US folks not necessarily exposed to British and Irish accents quite as much.
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@paulca personally I find people trying Australian accent hilarious. Partly because we already sound ridiculous but also because people are quite bad at them 😂
I’ve heard a lot of bad Irish accents (and probably done some myself), they’re a clumsy pastiche at best. It’s a shame, y’all sound wonderful. I could listen for hours
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@paulca I was gonna give them an over-the-top pass for “very well done badly”, but you say it it doesn’t land locally?
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@janl — If I squint I can see an “it’s Paul Rudd” gag, but the Irish nurse didn’t make any sense to me. If they’re gonna do “even the nurse has a shit accent”, have Saoirse Ronan do it and give them a dirty look. They got Ron Howard!
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@paulca right, I exclusively meant Paul Rudd.
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@janl — Yeah, it walked the line. If there was a signal somewhere that it was being intentionally bad for any reason other than “a bad Irish accent is funny”, then I probably could have run with it. It’s one of those cases where funnier and more impressive would have been a perfect Irish accent. It’s not like he couldn’t simply ask Aisling Bea for some coaching. 🤣
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@paulca thanks for the explainer :)
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@paulca Are you referring to Paul Rudd's (new) character, or the nurse? Or both?
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@gruber — The nurse is the really pointless one. eg an actually Irish actor would have loved that role. As I mentioned to @janl … if the gag is “famous actors doing bad Irish accents”, then have a famous Irish actor like Saoirse Ronan be the nurse. Even better would have been Paul Rudd doing a convincing accent, especially since he was co-lead in a show with Aisling Bea, who is Irish.
In terms of simply bad Irish accents, they’re both terrible 😂.
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