Chris O'Dowd, right, is keeping his native accent in Get ShortyFrom Tom Cruise in Far and Away to Gerard Butler in PS I Love You Hollywood has struggled to master an Irish accent while homegrown actors have spent years masking their dialect so that they can play American or English characters. Now a change is coming: the idea is gaining traction that it’s all right or even an advantage for Irish actors to sound Irish on the big and small screens. Chris O’Dowd, who was born and raised in Boyle, Co Roscommon, recently confirmed that he would keep his native accent in a forthcoming remake of the television series Get Shorty alongside Ray Romano. The American writer Stephen King has also revealed that Brendan Gleeson’s Dublin brogue made him first choice to play the detective…

Source: The Times August 14, 2017 23:03 UTC