Salon.com > Ondine http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 12:30:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Colin Farrell’s fairy tale ending http://www.salon.com/2010/05/02/farrell_jordan/ http://www.salon.com/2010/05/02/farrell_jordan/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 18:01:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/andrew_ohehir/2010/05/02/farrell_jordan Colin Farrell speaks in an Irish accent in the new film "Ondine," all right -- but it isn't his Irish accent. As part of what looks to be his ongoing mid-career self-renovation project, Farrell plays a divorced County Cork fisherman in writer-director Neil Jordan's new movie. This character, a recovering alcoholic named Syracuse (or Circus, to the local wags), speaks in the lilting, almost musical tones of Ireland's southwestern coast, an accent as distant from Farrell's native Dublin as New Orleans is from Boston.

When I suggest to Farrell that playing a Corkman might have been nearly as challenging as playing a Texan, as he did in his breakthrough American role in the 2000 film "Tigerland," he responds: "Probably more so. Dublin speech is closer, dialectically, to Texas than it is to Cork. And I grew up watching American films and programs on television."

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