Don’t ruin my Netflix series with awful Irish accents, says Marian Keyes

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The bestselling Irish author’s 2020 novel Grown Ups – a comedy about how one woman’s concussion leads to an outpouring of long-repressed gripes and secrets – is being adapted into a Netflix TV series by the team behind Apple TV+’s acclaimed spy drama Slow Horses. Speaking about the forthcoming adaptation at Hay Festival, Keyes, 60, said: “It would be so, so nice if they use people who can do Irish accents.” Decrying how awful so many Irish accents are in film and TV, she said: “I mean, the accents are just… I weep! That’s what we want.” Some of the most egregious Irish accents to grace the screen include in the Lindsay Lohan Netflix film Irish Wish, Emily Blunt-starrer Wild Mountain Thyme and the romcom PS I Love You. Jamie Dornan and Emily Blunt in ‘Wild Mountain Time’ In the wide-ranging talk at Hay with presenter Kirsty Lang, Keyes also discussed her alcoholism, and a breakdown she had in 2009.