I was watching Happy Gilmore 2 last night. My wife and I were laughing about the scenes with Rory McIlroy in them as we always find it so jarring when watching an American movie or show and all of sudden someone starts talking in a Norn Irish accent. It’s like it pulls us back into the room or something, the 4th wall is broken. My wife said she thinks its because we sound like pirates 😂

Anyway, this reminded me of another time I experienced this phenomenon. In the 2011 comedy fantasy, Your Highness. I've cut the exact scene for this post for you all to experience it. One minute you're watching a tavern brawl break out in this medieval fantasy world, next thing you're yanked out of the movie and into Laverys on a Saturday night.

Does anyone else here find it as jarring as me? And if so do you have any other examples of it?





by Vagina_Titan

18 comments

  2. I love happy Gilmore so I’d kinda promised myself not to watch the second one cause I’m assuming it’s an abomination but you’ve intrigued me and after finishing Oppenheimer something less serious would be nice

  3. I remember working out beside Natalie Portman at Virgin gym in Holywood while they were filming this.

    And I’m looking forward to asking Rory who owns his tittys, next time I see him.

  4. I was an extra in that scene, and I remember thinking ‘how is that going to work’ as they recorded that line. I presumed they would just ADR in an English voice. Nope.

  6. It should have been the buckening rather than the fuckening.

  7. i had this experience playing the witcher 3 – SO many northern irish accents in skellige

  8. Not a movie but the Daredevil born again series definitely had that. They build up a lot of tension that something bads coming and you just hear “ya silly wee ballix” I burst out laughing at what was meant to be serious

  9. I find it’s worse when it’s not in films, Bernie Collins doing F1 commentary and the Northern Irish girl in The Inbetweeners have very thick accents compared to the English accents. Bronagh Gallagher in Pulp Fiction is one that sticks out for me even though it’s a small part.

  11. There is a rather large fella a extra playing a random goon in the punisher movie or maybe shoot em up cant remember which one. He’s lying down in a lift when the doors open to the main character standing there aiming his gun. The extra then says “aw for fuck sake” in the thickest Northern Irish accent ever and then gets blown away by a shotgun. Two very shite films but I just remembered that scene because of the accent 😂

  12. I presume you’ve never watched Blue Eye Samurai? Show is set in Edo Japan, but the main villain is Northern Irish. Took me out of it the first time he spoke, but once you’ve heard him monologue twice an episode you get used to it

  13. Fun fact the wooden stadium was built in clandeboye forest in Ards/Bangor and I got to see in the place when they were filming. There was set plans said to have gone missing apparently…

    But I know what you mean, it’s like why is someone not putting their acting voice on? Oh right

  14. Has there ever been any actor that was not from here put on a decent NI accent? It’s a very hard accent to master though you would have to be from here to notice. There are some actors from NI that I even question their own accent at times. That fella Ciaran whatever that was in Game of Thrones for example I always feel his NI accent is very odd.

  15. Not a movie but in the witcher 3, a skelliger comes out of a bar asks you to fight and then says in the broadest fuckin NI accent DYOO KNOW HUU I AWWWWM?

  16. Colin Morgan (guy who played merlin in the BBC show) narrates the rincewind books for the discworld series

    It’s less jaring than that, but it’s quite fun driving along and hearing some words slip in that are very northern irish

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