Movie Star Blog

On the subject of Cillian Murphy, while watching 28 Days Later I got to thinking about how crappy most U.K. actors’ American accents tend to be. Ewan McGregor has sounded Scottish in every film that required him to act British, except for Big Fish, which required him to have the most stereotypical Southern accent imaginable. Keira Knightley’s voice drops several octaves when she tries to sound American. Orlando Bloom sounds like an elf no matter what he does. Even Jude Law can’t quite pull it off. Murphy’s is by far the best American accent I’ve heard in the past five years. (He has said in an interview that Irish actors have such effective American accents because of all the bad American TV they watch.) There was really no point to that last paragraph, other than to mention Cillian Murphy a couple more times in conjunction with Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, and Orlando Bloom. Just be glad I haven’t said anything about Thom Yorke in this post.