Anyone wondering where exactly Tom Cruise got the inspiration for his god-awful attempt at an Irish accent in Far and Away now have their answer. It must have been this guy.
In the video above, Gareth Jameson, an actor and so-called voice coach, attempts to give lessons on how to replicate the Irish accent, but unless we have suddenly transformed into illiterate pirates with a lack of appreciation for the letter ‘h’, then his grasp of how the Irish people speak is dramatically out of touch.
Just listen to his attempts to say the sentence ‘I’ll be fine with all this oil’ in an Irish accent (a situation in which anyone would ever need to say such a line is beyond us).
It turns into something like ‘Oi’ll be foine with all this aisle’ yet somehow Jameson keeps a straight face throughout. He makes a similar hash of sentences involving the words ‘think (tink)’ and this (dis) and also manages to get the line ‘How now brown cow’ into his brief yet hilarious attempt at a tutorial.
Jameson’s attempt at replicating a reasonable version of an Irish accent is baffling for someone who lives so close and his ignorance of our dialects puts similarly ridiculous accounts of Irish culture like the horrendously twee Darby O’Gill and the Little People in the shade.
We know Mick McCarthy once used phonetics in an attempt to master the Irish national anthem but if Trap employs this guy to try and get the likes of Simon Cox and Sean St. Ledger to make their twang a little more Irish before the Euros he will never be forgiven.
Give up the day job Gareth, and fast.
