Toni Collette on new film Goodbye June, and how she learned to do a Cork accent
Toni Collette at a screening of Goodbye June, the directorial debut of Kate Winslet that's in cinemas in advance of a release on Netflix. (Photo by Stephanie Augello/Getty Images)
On hearing that the journalist interviewing her is from Co Cork, Toni Collette switches briefly and effortlessly to a spot-on Leeside lilt. It’s an accent she got an ear for while spending time in Cork, Wicklow and Dublin in the late 1990s and early noughties.
Ireland is a place she feels a great affection towards. She considered making a base here at one point and returned to work on Kerry filmmaker Gerard Barrett’s Again she took on an Irish accent - this time Tallaght - when she played Jack Reynor’s troubled mother in the well-received drama.
