A couple of years ago, when JOE sat down to exclusively chat to Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie about their roles in Quentin Tarantino’s epic Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood, we had to bring up two things.
One: When we previously chatted to Margot Robbie (for Suicide Squad) and she revealed her love for the Irish accent.
Two: We had to mention the fact that Brad Pitt previously rocked an Irish accent in The Devil’s Own.
“That was probably more extreme,” Pitt told us, “but there is a real music to Northern Ireland that I click into, that I kind of adored.”
Robbie agreed, saying: “I think for me the most difficult ones, because I haven’t done either of them yet, would be Irish and South African, but I love both of them, I love accents, I love all of them.
“But those two sound very difficult to me. But [Brad] nailed that.”
Pitt then followed on, telling us, “And I’m told my ‘Pikey’ – do we still use that word? – accent was pretty good. Which is amazing, because I was going off a performance of a guest star on a Father Ted episode.”
Both JOE and Robbie were shocked by this revelation, at once asking, “Really?”
“Yes. And then a friend of mine, who said ‘I never can understand what they’re saying’. So somehow I ended up in the right spot on a Hail Mary.”
Robbie, later in the same chat, told us that Snatch is one of her favourite movies of all time, then confirmed that fact by doing her best Pitt-in-Snatch impression:
Our best guess of that “guest star” here in the JOE offices is either Pat Shortt’s Tom (I Shot J.R.), or Jon Kenny as Eurovision host Fred Rickwood.