Christopher Walken: it needs the luck of the Irish to place his accent | Rebecca Nicholson
Star’s attempt at a brogue is not the first, or the worst, by a Hollywood actor
Christopher Walken has the unfortunate honour of introducing the trailer for the new film Wild Mountain Thyme, in a voiceover in which, playing an Irishman, he says: “Welcome to Ireland.”
It was enough to send social media into a spin, sure it was, as it tried to wrangle the accents away from the non-Irish actors (and Jamie Dornan) who were mangling them. These accents have wandered so far that it’s a wonder they found Ireland at all. Dublin airport about the clip and called for “the accent police”, while Dublin’s National Leprechaun Museum : “Even we
