It's all in the accent of an Irish star

She may have survived the sinking of the Titanic, but veteran Irish actress Fionnula Flanagan admits to be terrified during the making of The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ... because of the accent she had to use.

In the terrifically-titled new movie, in which Flanagan plays Teensy, one of the ladies who get involved in a kidnapping, she had to come up with a Southern States drawl and she recalls it thus: