Question: What's the story with Chris's accent? It certainly doesn't sound Irish.
Match Point (2005)
1 answered question since 4 Mar '25, 03:44
Directed by: Woody Allen
Starring: Scarlett Johansson, Emily Mortimer, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Matthew Goode
Continuity mistake: When Chris finds Nola in the Tate modern, her arm changes from bent to down between front and back shots.
Nola Rice: Men think I may be something special.
Chris Wilton: Are you?
Nola Rice: No one's ever asked for their money back.
Question: What's the story with Chris's accent? It certainly doesn't sound Irish.
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Answer: My take is that he was an ambitious social climber and had minimised his natural Irish accent for a more generic British one to better fit in with the upper classes he was mingling with and eventually married into.
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