Dornan's character talks to a donkey and trips into a lake while Blunt, her hair turned auburn, stomps around fields. Gobsmacked reaction on Wednesday speculated that the film, to be released next month, would outdo Tom Cruise's 1992 drama Far and Away for paddywhackery cliches and dodgy accents.
`Even we think this is a bit much,` tweeted the National Leprechaun Museum of Ireland, as a social media pile-on gathered steam. Twitter critics said Dornan had little excuse for a ropey accent since he was from Northern Ireland.
Filmed in County Mayo, Wild Mountain Thyme stars Christopher Walken, as the father of Dornan's character, and Jon Hamm, who plays an American and thus escapes accent scrutiny.
