Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm not foreign enough to play foreigners... I have sort of a mid-Atlantic British accent that puts me in the middle of everything, so they don't know quite where to put me.
In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.
It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown.
My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.
I can do accents really well.
My accent gets more pronounced when I've been talking to people from Derry.
If you walk through Knightsbridge on any bland day of the week you won't hear an English accent. You'll hear every accent under the sun apart from the British accent.
No one can understand my accent!
I spent a lot of time in London when I was growing up and I've always picked up accents without even really meaning to. It used to get me into trouble as a child.
Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.