{"id":8603,"date":"2025-06-01T10:56:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T10:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/pierce-brosnan-on-his-mobland-accent\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T10:56:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T10:56:10","slug":"pierce-brosnan-on-his-mobland-accent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/pierce-brosnan-on-his-mobland-accent\/","title":{"rendered":"Pierce Brosnan On His &#8220;MobLand&#8221; Accent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-module=\"subbuzz-text\">\n<p>Speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/drama\/pierce-brosnan-tom-hardy-mobland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Times<\/a>, Pierce explained that because his own accent is \u201cvery soft\u201d, his character\u2019s is \u201ca million miles away from me\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce also claimed that he told his <em>MobLand<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/andrewziegler\/dialect-quiz\"\/><\/em> dialect coach that he \u201cneeded a Kerry accent, so he gave me the name of a man and I Googled the guy and that was it\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just gave it full tilt,\u201d he claimed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalspy.com\/tv\/a64888861\/pierce-brosnan-irish-accent-mobland-criticism\/\" target=\"_blank\">Digital Spy also reported that Pierce told Today FM<\/a>: \u201cLast summer I spoke to Guy [Ritchie, the creator of <em>MobLand<\/em>] for the first time about [the character\u2019s Irish accent] and having read the five episodes he said not to worry about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[He said], \u2018We\u2019ll just do it 15 minutes on the day, clear your mind, we\u2019ll sort it out, don\u2019t worry about it\u2019. Of course, I put the phone down and did worry about it!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFive weeks later I was on the set with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/sam_cleal\/nude-male-celebs\">Tom Hardy<\/a> and Guy, first day, important dialogue, important information and he just said, \u2018more Irish, more Irish\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>MobLand<\/em> sees Pierce sharing the screen with Tom Hardy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jennaguillaume\/house-of-the-dragon-characters-age-comparison\">Paddy Considine<\/a>, Joanne Froggatt and Helen Mirren, with whom he also co-stars in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/thursday-murder-club-release-date-new-cast-photos_uk_680b48dee4b042d1248598bf\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix\u2019s upcoming adaptation of the best-selling novel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/entry\/thursday-murder-club-release-date-new-cast-photos_uk_680b48dee4b042d1248598bf\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Thursday Murder Club<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-part drama has been generally well-received by critics, with no official word yet on whether a second season could be on the cards.<\/p>\n<p><em>MobLand\u2019s final instalment (for now, at least) will premiere on Paramount+ on Sunday 1 June.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/danielwelsh\/pierce-brosnan-reacts-irish-accent-mobland-criticism\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to Radio Times, Pierce explained that because his own accent is \u201cvery soft\u201d, his character\u2019s is \u201ca million miles away from me\u201d. Pierce also claimed that he told his MobLand dialect coach that he \u201cneeded a Kerry accent, so he gave me the name of a man and I Googled the guy and that [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/2025\/06\/01\/pierce-brosnan-on-his-mobland-accent\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"reaction":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8603"},{"taxonomy":"reaction","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reaction?post=8603"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=8603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}