Olivia Cooke: I googled ‘worst Irish accents in film’ before latest movie

Olivia Cooke (Ian West/PA)

Olivia Cooke has admitted she googled “worst Irish accents in film” as she prepared for her latest movie role.

The Vanity Fair actress, who is from Oldham, stars opposite Bohemian Rhapsody actor Ben Hardy and Peaky Blinders’ Daryl McCormack to play the title role in the Irish gangster comedy Pixie, about a young woman who wants to avenge her mother’s death by masterminding a heist, but finds herself on the run.