Having read various works of Oscar Wilde's, I'd always come to think of him as a very English-y sort of guy. I might be wrong, but I think a good deal of his work was published in England, so I just assumed he was English. But now I've found out he was born and raised in Ireland (BTW I haven't seen the movie). So anyway, does Stephen Fry speak with an Irish or British accent in this film? Just curious.
shareHe speaks with an English accent except for one line where he puts on an Irish accent.
shareAny hint of an Irish accent would have been forced out of him while he was at Oxford. So by the time we join the story in America (the start of the film) he sounded entirely upper-class.
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I see. Thanks for the info.
shareIn fact, it's likely he never had an 'Irish' accent. Dublin at the time was the 2nd city of the empire and certainly the gentry of Dublin would likely have spoken with refined accents probably not all that dis-similar to English accents.
shareevry bio ive read said that he had an irish brogue when he went to oxford
shareTrue, even some Americans sounded completely English in those days.
shareHis mother in the film (Vanessa Redgrave) has an Irish accent.
Most likely Wilde dropped his at Oxford, as an earlier poster suggested.
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