Accent
If i recall correctly, Freds going a really thick accent. Where is it from?
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Rik Mayall is British and does not change his accent for this film. As he was brought up in the Midlands (an area of England, unsurprisingly in the middle) I would suppose that this is where the accent is from, though slightly muted as he went to university of course.
shareAh, thank you very much. I hadn't seen the movie in a long time but remembered he had an accent and assumed it was irish because of his green outfit and red hair. Haha. Thank you very much.
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shareHis accent is basically a sothern english accent, but he puts "childlike" edge to it.
It's certainly not a midlands accent, Rik is from Essex, which is just outside London to the East.
I wouldn't question where he was born, but he was brought up and educated in the Midlands, before heading to Manchester. Many of his characters call on the diversity of this upbringing and the accents encountered.
shareMaybe he was, but I've never seen him in anything speaking in anyway anything resembling a Midlands Accent.
He doesn't in this film anyway.
one of his first comedy characters was in fact completely Midlands. If you're sensitive to it, you can hear it occasionally in everything he does. As well as other accents of course.
shareI'll try to keep a look out for it, but never picked it out, nand accents is a bit of a forte of mine (doing them as well as listening for them).
Never noticed it in Mayall, mind you which part of the Midlands are you thinking of?
West Midlands and Birmingham is much thicker than East Midlands or Leicester.
Mayall only went to Uni at Manchester so it's unlikely he'd pick up a Mancunian accent from it.
I think it was Worcester. Oddly enough they showed it on UK TV yesterday and it is not strong at all, though at a couple of points (when he first returns out of the Jack-in-a-Box and asks where the toys and dolls are) I could really hear it.
shareKevin Turvey - Investigative Reporter - that's his Midlands character!
Sooooo funny! Look out for Man Behind the Green Door - that was one of the vids I had with that character in.
"I look hot and smart! I feel like Michelle Obama!"
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Rik Mayell uses a few different accents in his his acting, usually posh or brummy (midlands). His brummy is usually exaggerated for comic effect
Watch Mayell's full on brummy here with Robbie Coltrane (who later played Hagrid in Potter movies)
In drop dead fred, his accent has some brummy in it.
Rik Mayell also has difficulty in pronouncing some sounds, such as 'r' which adds to the effect.