A A Gill on James Nesbitt playing Dr Jekyll, in the Sunday Times

[devi]

"I suspect the Irish accent has a lot to do with the success of his characterisation. It is a Jekyll-and-Hyde voice. He's blarney and craic and Terry Wogan, but also the voice from behind the balaclava, the code-word warning and sectarian bile."

Wait, what?

Comments

[undyingking.livejournal.com]

A A Gill is a w@nker pure and simple.

And James Nesbitt's accent is no more like Terry Wogan's than mine is like [random well-known person from some unrelated part of England]. But I suppose to people like Gill "they" all sound alike.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

To be fair to him, I used to think there was such a thing as an "English accent". But a) that was when I'd barely been to England and didn't know many English people, and b) I don't really want to be fair to him.