One person jokingly wrote: 'I am only managing about ten seconds of the Wild Mountain Thyme trailer per attempt and my thoughts and prayers are with all actual Irish people at this difficult time.'Ī fourth viewer said: 'Man those accents are painful to hear and I love Walken in most things. While another hit out: 'The accents though. One person wrote: 'As a young Irishman, I'll be skipping this because, holy f*** Blunt and Walken's accents are so awful.' Returning home, Rosemary confronts Antony and tells him 'time is running out' on their romance, as a narrator asks: 'What is love, it is a quest or madness?' Telling her he doesn't 'wait' for anything in the first trailer, Rosemary admits she likes that quality in him and the pair visit New York City together. It's not only the farm that Tommy could get his hands on, as he's seen flirting with Rosemary as Anthony argues with his father about potentially being disinherited. Jamie and Emily's characters Anthony and Rosemary are 'besotted' but haven't got together because of the former's reservation to commit.īut Anthony's home life isn't going great, as he is constantly at odds with his father Tony (Walken) who claims: 'You take after John Kelly, and that man was as mad as the full moon, drowned himself.'ĭespite Anthony having plans to propose to Rosemary eventually, Tony is fed up of waiting for his son to take to his responsibilities and offers his farm to Anthony's American cousin Tommy (Hamm) instead. Starring Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan as neighbouring farmers struggling to find love with each other, the pair are also joined by Christopher Walken and Jon Hamm in Wild Mountain Thyme. Here, FEMAIL reveals the stereotypes Twitter users took issue with. On the upside Ireland looks nice.'īut it wasn't just the dodgy accents which offended viewers, with the rom-com, filmed in County Mayo, also being lambasted for suggesting Irish people all have 'red hair, outdated clothes and love a fight'. 'Even we think this is a bit much,' tweeted the National Leprechaun Museum of Ireland, while the Dublin Airport Authority added: ' There’s fashion police, grammar police, we even have airport police. Viewers even speculated that the film could outdo Tom Cruise’s much-maligned lilt in the 1992 drama Far and Away. They are joined by Christopher Walken and Jon Hamm, who is the only character speaking in his natural accent as an American visitor, leading audiences to hit out at the rest of the casts' 'terrible West of Ireland brogue. ![]() It stars British actress Emily Blunt - with dyed red hair and sporting a selection of shawls last in fashion in the 1800s - and Belfast-born Jamie Dornan as neighbouring farmers struggling to find love with each other. The film, set to air next month, released its first trailer on Tuesday to much anticipation, but left disappointed Irish social media users howling at the screen due to its 'clichéd script, outdated costumes and "criminal" accents'. ![]() A new rom-com Wild Mountain Thyme set in rural Ireland has been blasted for perpetuating outdated stereotypes, with one outraged critic summing up the feelings of a nation by branding it 'worse than the famine'.
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