Oh, and AD does brilliant accents and voices that are American but not his own. Why can't we give him accent-talent props?

Neither of them are British, though.

Yes. Way sloppy. What's the term I'm looking for, that covers both big islands? Great Britain is just one...United Kingdom can't be it, because they're hardly united or a kingdom...but I swear there's something...eta: British Isles! Okay, better, but makes the whole "British" thing hella confusing.

AD does brilliant accents and voices that are American but not his own. Why can't we give him accent-talent props?

I don't intend to not give him props--I'm just talking about something else.

So, Irish people who do good American accents don't count? What if they do good British accents? (Not that I could tell.)

Irish people who do good American accents don't count?

Is that to me or IAmNotReallyASpring? I think they count, but that wasn't the group I indicated at the start.

I just checked -- Liam Neeson's from Northern Ireland, so he was in what I referred to as British (what do you call people from the UK?). I blanked on Colin Farrell's Irishness...I mean, I know he's Irish, I was just *hella* sloppy including him in the group.

Last night, we stumbled across "Ever After" on the Family Channel. After 20 seconds, FAQWife was yelling at me to turn off the TV because Drew Barrymore's British accent was so bad.

Which reminds me: Dougray Scott - a British Isles type person that does an okay American accent.

Oh, I saw a bit of Christopher Eccleston in that movie with Renee Zellweger where he's playing an Orthodox Jew? His American accent is also good. Although, I don't recall whether he sounded very New York -- or if he was supposed to. (I only stopped by the movie long enough to see Christopher Eccleston - and then I moved on.)

I just checked -- Liam Neeson's from Northern Ireland, so he was in what I referred to as British (what do you call people from the UK?).

He may be from the North but he's not British; he's Irish. In the North, you can choose your nationality. So you can be British, Irish, Northern Irish, British and Northern Irish, Irish and Northern Irish with a light vinegar dressing and hold a passport that says as much. I mean, it's not sloppy to not know that Liam Neeson considers himself Irish but that's what makes it so.

In the North, you can choose your nationality.

This I had no idea about. So he's not a citizen of the UK? My generalisations just got a big bit more complicated.

I'm pretty sure he lives in the south now, though feel free to correct me on that, people who can be bothered to Google. Though this possibly has more to do with artists' tax exemptions than anything else.

ETA: That I'm wrong. He lives in New York. But I think he must spend a decent amount of time in Ireland, just from media stuff that I see. And I'd definitely say he's a northener who'd call himself Irish.

This I had no idea about.

Well, it wasn't true ten years ago.

Though this possibly has more to do with artists' tax exemptions than anything else.

Strangely enough, actors don't qualify for tax exemptions. I think it's because to qualify one must be engaged in a 'creative' activity and acting is classed as an 'interpretative' activity.