Chris O'Dowd's correction of interviewer who called him "British"

MakeEmLaugh

Not to invoke heedless Anglophobia, but Chris O'Dowd correction of this interviewer (47 seconds in) when she calls him a "British actor" is the epitome of how it should be done.

Concise, firm and discreet.

jellygems

Good man Chris, what is with the British claiming all the good ones.... I bet they wouldnt call Shane McGowan British :rolleyes:

squod

Funny guy

TeddyTedson

He corrected her, by correcting her. Brilliant

mikemac1

Such a strange accent

I knew a few from Roscommon but none of them speak like that

Strange in a good way

TeddyTedson

jellygems wrote: »

Good man Chris, what is with the British claiming all the good ones.... I bet they wouldn't call Shane McGowan British :rolleyes:

Well the Irish are not exactly the best in this regard either. We try and claim and awful lot of people too. You even hear people Wayne Rooney Irish. Should we then be calling Katie Taylor British?
It's just that globally we have less enemies so to speak than the Brits so people don't mind being called Irish.

Micky Dolenz

I'm outraged, I'm going to write a strongly worded email to someone.

4zn76tysfajdxp

mikemac1 wrote: »

Such a strange accent

I knew a few from Roscommon but none of them speak like that

Strange in a good way

He's pretty much been living in London for the last ten years, I think. So it's probably got a bit more English since.

Colmustard

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Good lord, who gives a fukc, why does this only seem to matter to the Irish.

Him being an Irish actor does absolutely nothing to improve my life.

MakeEmLaugh

Marilyn Helpful Rambler wrote: »

He's pretty much been living in London for the last ten years, I think. So it's probably got a bit more English since.

I'm from Sligo, near Ballymote, which is one stop over from Boyle on the train, and I don't think there's anything unusual about Chris O'Dowd's accent. Lots of people in Roscommon talk like that.

I don't pick up an English inflection, the way you do with Irish actors like Jonathan Rhys Meyers or Ruth Negga.

Sappa

This does not deserve its own thread.

El Horseboxo

TeddyTedson wrote: »

jellygems wrote: »

Good man Chris, what is with the British claiming all the good ones.... I bet they wouldn't call Shane McGowan British :rolleyes:

Well the Irish are not exactly the best in this regard either. We try and claim and awful lot of people too. You even hear people Wayne Rooney Irish. Should we then be calling Katie Taylor British?
It's just that globally we have less enemies so to speak than the Brits so people don't mind being called Irish.

Yeah but Ireland seem to do it when there is an ancestral link to the country. Still a bit cringeworthy. Especially the Obama one. Whereas the British seem to do it geographically because they think Ireland and Britain is one and the same.

MakeEmLaugh

Sappa wrote: »

This does not deserve its own thread.

This does not deserve its own comment.

Fromthetrees

We claim Obama as Irish for the love of god.
We can't get bitchy about stuff like this.
If he's ever involved in some scandal the headlines in britland will be "Irish actor Chris...", that's the issue I'd have with it.

He's a funny guy.

girl2

Colmustard wrote: »

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Good lord, who gives a fukc, why does this only seem to matter to the Irish.

Him being an Irish actor does absolutely nothing to improve my life.

Oh come on, the British took enough. We're not lettin them take Chris or Katie or anyone else for that matter. And fair play to those of us all for feeling strong about it.

sunflower27

Hahaha

She sounded a tad peeved at being picked up on it

Ghost Buster

Colmustard wrote: »

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

Good lord, who gives a fukc, why does this only seem to matter to the Irish.

Him being an Irish actor does absolutely nothing to improve my life.

Obviously it only matters to the Irish in the same way that calling an Australian a Czech would matter to the Australians or calling an Estonian Spanish would only matter to Estonians.
Have journalists a major issue with knowing a teeny tiny bit of geography and perhaps a smidge of their own history?

anncoates

MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

Not to invoke heedless Anglophobia,

Lol

BQQ

Fromthetrees wrote: »

We claim Obama as Irish for the love of god.
We can't get bitchy about stuff like this.

Ah, c'mon. That's only a bit of craic. Not the same thing at all.

Can you imagine an interviewer asking Obama "as an Irish politician, how did you feel working in Washington?" like in the video above?

Ghost Buster

BQQ wrote: »

Ah, c'mon. That's only a bit of craic. Not the same thing at all.

Can you imagine an interviewer asking Obama "as an Irish politician, how did you feel working in Washington?" like in the video above?

Realisticly we only claim that Obama has irish roots and its only the Americans who really give a fiddlers about such stuff seing as they are such a young recently colonised nation. As you say, its mostly only crack. Totally different to calling a buck from Boyle 'a british actor'.

forfcksake

It says he's from Sligo on his wiki page, thought he was from Boyle in Roscommon?

Duckworth_Luas

forfcksake wrote: »

It says he's from Sligo on his wiki page, thought he was from Boyle in Roscommon?

Sligo people, always claiming Roscommon celebrities as their own! Wait until a dead, drugged up hooker is found in his swimming pool, he'll be back to being a Rossie then!

Duggys Housemate

To be fair she could use "British actor" moving to Hollywood as British resident actor or actor in British TV. That's the shorthand she's using.

TeddyTedson

I really like Chris O'Dowd. He's a lovably character!
But, if he hadn't of corrected her there it would have been bad form.
She probably just made a bit of a slip of the tongue, but you need to correct people in those situations regardless.

Chris seems like a no bull**** sort of guy. Wasn't offended by it or find it a big deal just educated the interviewer and prevented people been misinformed.

I think it's how most reasonable people would react though.

Wait.. who is claiming Obama as Irish?

Duckworth_Luas

Deleted User wrote: »

Wait.. who is claiming Obama as Irish?

Jedward?

holystungun9

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I'm outraged, I'm going to write a strongly worded email to someone.

You do know that my inbox now just labels your mails as spam? The google spam squad should be abseiling and busting through your windows riigghht aboouut.......NOW!

Biggins

MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

Not to invoke heedless Anglophobia, but Chris O'Dowd correction of this interviewer (47 seconds in) when she calls him a "British actor" is the epitome of how it should be done.

Concise, firm and discreet.

Yea, ok...

NEXT!

MakeEmLaugh

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Well the Irish are not exactly the best in this regard either. We try and claim and awful lot of people too. You even hear people Wayne Rooney Irish. Should we then be calling Katie Taylor British?

Fromthetrees wrote: »

We claim Obama as Irish for the love of god.
We can't get bitchy about stuff like this.

You're missing the point entirely. This isn't about 'claiming' someone based on their ancestry. It's about an Irish person being called British, to his face, and choosing to correct the person doing so.

starbelgrade

forfcksake wrote: »

It says he's from Sligo on his wiki page, thought he was from Boyle in Roscommon?

He is, but the hospital in Sligo is only about 35 minutes from Boyle.

Micky Dolenz

holystungun9 wrote: »

You do know that my inbox now just labels your mails as spam? The google spam squad should be abseiling and busting through your windows riigghht aboouut.......NOW!

Heh, time to change email address................again.

mike65

I thought this was about the LLS last night...disappointed.

Quorum

jellygems wrote: »

Good man Chris, what is with the British claiming all the good ones.... I bet they wouldnt call Shane McGowan British :rolleyes:

Shane McGowan IS British.

Quorum

mikemac1 wrote: »

Such a strange accent

I knew a few from Roscommon but none of them speak like that

Strange in a good way

It's very put on, IMO. He Oirishes it up a bit, I think.

geeky

I like Chris O'Dowd's approach in interviews, he's polite but doesn't suffer foolishness. Mrs Geeky saw an interview with an Irish journalist (just as the IT Crowd was taking off) who asked him 'oh, when are you coming back to us?'

He just turned around and said I'm still a jobbing actor, mate, I go where there's work. If celebs weren't so nicey-nicey and smiling through idiocy in interviews, I'd actually watch more interviews.

ejmaztec

MakeEmLaugh wrote: »

Concise, firm and discreet.

The exact opposite of what this thread's going to be.:P

mike65

only in the way that Seán Dermot Fintan O'Leary, Jr is.

Quorum

Marilyn Helpful Rambler wrote: »

He's pretty much been living in London for the last ten years, I think. So it's probably got a bit more English since.

It doesn't sound remotely English though.

mike65

O'Dowd sounds like his should be clearing muck and leaves from a drainage ditch in the midlands.

scoob70

El Horseboxo wrote: »

Yeah but Ireland seem to do it when there is an ancestral link to the country. Still a bit cringeworthy. Especially the Obama one. Whereas the British seem to do it geographically because they think Ireland and Britain is one and the same.

Well I'm a brit living here and watched this and it is cringeworthy. He delt with this superbly . This is just bloody lazy youngsters in their first journalist job more wrapped up in furthering their careers then taking the time to do some basic research on their subject. I'm just saying .

Colmustard

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Obviously it only matters to the Irish in the same way that calling an Australian a Czech would matter to the Australians or calling an Estonian Spanish would only matter to Estonians.
Have journalists a major issue with knowing a teeny tiny bit of geography and perhaps a smidge of their own history?

Why would the journo know, he works in Britain, lives in London (for the past 10 years) has he ever acted here??, do you really think a British journo doesn't know where Ireland is,,come-on.

Besides they can have him, I think he is crap.

Ghost Buster

Colmustard wrote: »

Why would the journo know, he works in Britain, lives in London (for the past 10 years) has he ever acted here??, do you really think a British journo doesn't know where Ireland is,,come-on.

Besides they can have him, I think he is crap.

Because they are supposed to know who they are talking to. Its basic research.
As for has he ever acted here.. YES.

Duckworth_Luas

Colmustard wrote: »

Why would the journo know, he works in Britain, lives in London (for the past 10 years) has he ever acted here??, do you really think a British journo doesn't know where Ireland is,,come-on.

Besides they can have him, I think he is crap.

You should calm down! The "journalist" didn't know, he corrected her. In a polite manner as well.

Colmustard

Ghost Buster wrote: »

Because they are supposed to know who they are talking to. Its basic research.
As for has he ever acted here.. YES.

At a celeb bash, really, so the journo finds out who will be there and stays up all night studying their profiles, what do you think they are.

Colmustard

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

You should calm down! The "journalist" didn't know, he corrected her. In a polite manner as well.

And that merits this thread and makes a nation proud. It'd moronic that anyone cares,

Duckworth_Luas

Colmustard wrote: »

And that merits this thread and makes a nation proud. It'd moronic that anyone cares,

Relax!

MakeEmLaugh

Colmustard wrote: »

Why would the journo know, he works in Britain, lives in London (for the past 10 years) has he ever acted here??, do you really think a British journo doesn't know where Ireland is,,come-on.

Besides they can have him, I think he is crap.

He's starred in The Clinic and an RTÉ-produced dramatisation of the IRA's bombing campaign called 1974: The Year London Blew Up, both prior to The IT Crowd. Also, the first project he created and co-wrote, Moone Boy, is shot and set entirely in the west of Ireland.

So, yes, he has acted here.

And presumably you see no problem with Jeremy Irons being referred to as an Irish actor, since he has lived in Cork for several years now?

Ghost Buster

Colmustard wrote: »

And that merits this thread and makes a nation proud. It'd moronic that anyone cares,

The only person getting excited about it is you;)

Solair

I find the British get *VERY* upset and indignant when the French mistakenly call them American. I've seen this on French tv in reference to musicians mostly (but occasionally actors too).

I actually had a long argument with a French guy who was insisting that the Rolling Stones and U2 were American. He then concluded that 'well they prefer to be referred to as American'... (clearly having had a chat with them personally or something on the subject...)

Likewise, it's not a great idea to call the Belgians French or Dutch and the Austrians are fairly sensitive about being referred to as German.

I realise that it's just a mix-up by the presenter, but it sort of highlights a major deficiency in UK geography lessons that even a well-educated TV presenter can't identify their closest neighbour.
It's understandable if you're from the US or Australia or wherever as you may be unfamiliar with the geography, but we are the only country with a land boarder with the UK.

FortuneChip

In her defence, Irish/British, they're all the same

Agricola

Its strange though. If my job was to stick a mic in front of actors and a guy with a noticeable english accent (who for some reason has been on Irish TV for afew years) came along to be interviewed, I wouldnt make the leap and say "As an Irish actor.........."

Come on he played an Irish character in the IT crowd, he doesnt sound like someone from anywhere in Britain, why say "British actor" unless maybe you're a bit thick.