As a nation, we are immensely tetchy about any actor portraying a stereotypical Oirish accent but spare a thought for Aidan Turner.
The actor has confessed that he struggled to nail the accent for his latest part. The 37-year-old who hails from Dublin plays Leonardo Da Vinci in a new TV series for Amazon Prime and has admitted that the accent nearly got the better of him.
After seamlessly portraying an army captain from Cornwall in Poldark you’d think Aidan is well versed in character parts by now but not so.
Chatting on Leonardo: The Official Podcast which accompanies the series he explained: ‘I sort of deduced it down to accents that would be inappropriate and ones I couldn’t do.’ Like okay, can we give him an American accent or a
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