Did You Know In PEAKY BLINDERS…

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Such was the attention to detail on the show that actors were required to perform a perfect native Birmingham accent in auditions if they were to be considered for a role. If the accent was not deemed up to scratch then regardless of an actor's status they were deemed surplus to requirements by the show’s producers. Star of Poldark, Elena Thomlinson, found out first hand how difficult it was to impress Peaky Blinders’ casting directors as her accent was deemed unsatisfactory and she was rejected from starring in the show. Thomlinson has said of her audition for Peaky Blinders: “I auditioned for Peaky Blinders when it was first starting, but they said, ‘You need to be able to do a Birmingham accent’, I tried and they said ‘You just can’t do it can you love?’” Ouch.
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@pappajohndodgybob Жыл бұрын

Having family from Birmingham, the accents in this show aren't even close!

@TheCrow2483 Жыл бұрын

Was gunna say they sounded more like Londoners than Brummies

@AweSomeGamerzFTW Жыл бұрын

Wolverhampton here so we would recognise the different between our accent, though nobody else would lol. Loved the series though man

@CornG4397 Жыл бұрын

Yes because accents dont change in 100 years XD

@CornG4397 Жыл бұрын

@@S.O.A_Zero not really true outside of isolated community's

@westondickinson5309 Жыл бұрын

@@CornG4397 how the fuck did Cajuns get there accent? I swear to God they are just making up sounds to fuck with us and as soon as we're out of ear range they talk clear and concise just saying"look at that pea brain thinking we actually talk like this."

@fwebber13 Жыл бұрын

In the beginning it was only really Tommy and Arthur who could do a proper Brummie accent but by the end everybody had it pretty near spot on

@Chris09978 Жыл бұрын

Well the actor who plays Thomas is actually British lol

@juansnow5897 Жыл бұрын

@@Chris09978 irish

@aaron3431 Жыл бұрын

@@Chris09978 he’s Irish

@Werkvuur Жыл бұрын

@@Chris09978 The very large majority of actors in the show are British, but that doesn't mean they can do a Brummie accent, lol. Do you know how many accents there are?

@henrip3038 Жыл бұрын

@@Chris09978 this comment is dumb on so many levels, holy shit

@alexwalker9803 Жыл бұрын

I applied to be a background actor, I was told my accent wasn't good enough so I drove back to redditch

@jiri1679 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Really?

@Arunika1 Жыл бұрын

I thought background actors dont even talk

@alexwalker9803 Жыл бұрын

This is a joke redditch is a town near Birmingham. The accent is similar but different enough that you can tell the difference if you are from the area. When I moved south everyone thought I was from Birmingham

@delayeddeloy7761 Жыл бұрын

@@alexwalker9803 „Redditch is a medium-sized town in the county of Worcestershire in central England, just south of Birmingham.“ yeah tbh I thought it was a joke and they meant Reddit lmao

@josephrichards1763 Жыл бұрын

Hahahah. They don’t have a clue mate. I mean look at Arthur

@user-ol7bt4wp1j Жыл бұрын

I would have just mumbled like Ozzy Osbourne

@lukas7289 Жыл бұрын

Hired

@andrewmaddox2889 Жыл бұрын

Are you sober now?

@arranfoster484 Жыл бұрын

somebody has been in my room and taken my beers away from my room

@abethemudokon8226 Жыл бұрын

I heard multiple people from Birmingham say that the accent wasn't even close. You could maybe say that they spoke differently in the early 1900s but who knows.

@hanoughton924 Жыл бұрын

Apparently it was based on 100 years ago and not now, so it’s pretty different and I doubt there’s many people alive now who could confirm either way

@Melsharpe95 Жыл бұрын

It's definitely not a modern Brummie accent but it's very close to a legacy one. The actors did well.

@melt_brain Жыл бұрын

this show is supposed to take place in the 1800s. they had a more cockney birmingham accent.

@hanoughton924 Жыл бұрын

@@melt_brain it’s after WW1, not 1800’s and Cockney is a type of London accent, nothing to do with Birmingham

@deathmeter7243 2 ай бұрын

@@melt_brainThe show started in 1919.

@NikHuhr Жыл бұрын

*BirmingHAM acksent*

@mattihp Жыл бұрын

Cracked me up.

@h.w.4482 Жыл бұрын

how the hell else are you supposed to say it lmao

@mattihp Жыл бұрын

@@h.w.4482 Burr-MING-'am roughly

@h.w.4482 Жыл бұрын

@@mattihp cool, but "acksent"? that's literally how it's pronounced

@fatboygaming451 Жыл бұрын

More like burr-ming-um

@craig4209 Жыл бұрын

Imagine you were actually from Birmingham and they rejected you

@fekendra_feku7302 10 ай бұрын

😶😅

@Work_zebra123 Жыл бұрын

His pronunciation of Birmingham is so frustrating

@gulchbrammer1967 Жыл бұрын

Burming Ham

@marialindell9874 Жыл бұрын

It's an American, no can do

@Sip_Dhit Жыл бұрын

How and in what way? It's clearly the American accent, we say alot of words as they appear.

@7lores Жыл бұрын

how is it supposed to be said, genuinely curious 😭

@owen5026 Жыл бұрын

@@7lores birming-hm

@blakksy Жыл бұрын

Ur pronunciation of Birmingham got me chuckling

@LeBonkus Жыл бұрын

Birming Ham

@xeranuphia Жыл бұрын

yeah kinda weird how if you have a different accent you say things differently funny how that works

@batch_2731 Жыл бұрын

@@xeranuphia it's not a case of a different accent, it's literally Americans can't pronounce places in England and Scotland properly. 😂

@binyamogba221 Жыл бұрын

@@LeBonkus Burrmingam

@ch4z_bucks Жыл бұрын

@@batch_2731 exactly, it's not an accent thing, it's pronunciation.

@seandipaul8257 Жыл бұрын

For a production so thorough with language it’s funny to know that in the first 2 seasons they were speaking Romanian and not Romani

@jacksonconstantine5740 Жыл бұрын

When? I didn’t hear any Romanian

@seandipaul8257 Жыл бұрын

@@jacksonconstantine5740 season one snd two.

@channel55andaboxoftissues16 Жыл бұрын

irish gypsies arent even romani

@ivanvolkovogorodnik8317 10 ай бұрын

@@jacksonconstantine5740when they speak between gypsies

@JD-lz2uq Жыл бұрын

So to clarify, to get on a show set in Birmingham, the casting directors wanted you to be able to do a Birmingham accent. This insight was a godsend, and one of the reasons KZfaq shorts was invented.

@ajdestreza9367 Жыл бұрын

And yet here's Jimmy Mc'arvern With his "Scottish" accent

@tokvzn9713 Жыл бұрын

He's Scottish though?

@iosusito5683 Жыл бұрын

@@tokvzn9713 The character is Scottish, the actor I don't know, but his accent is so bad that even a non-native speaker who's never been anywhere in the UK or Ireland like me knows there's something wrong with it

@dubmait Жыл бұрын

The actor is irish but he's not doing an Irish accent. He's doing a stereotypical Scottish accent

@ajdestreza9367 Жыл бұрын

@@tokvzn9713 ah

@LongdownConker Жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly!!

@Son_of_Robin Жыл бұрын

Pronounced “Birming-um” Came here in January and that was the first thing my coworker told me. Not “Birming-ham” apparently that’s means for a guy to fight you here. Found out the hard way and never said it wrong again lol Edit: Although many burger joints here serve that Alabama white sauce. Which is hilarious to me.

@inconspicuoussalad7730 Жыл бұрын

Your coworker is right, it goes for a lot of other places too, saying it wrong is asking for a fight or just flashes red lights as you're probably not from round there or a posh knob or something

@Son_of_Robin Жыл бұрын

@@inconspicuoussalad7730 oh trust me. I know 😂 it was back in January when I first arrived and I grabbed a bite to eat at a restaurant. No joke, I asked the waiter what sights to see in Birmingham and the red flash I saw go across his face was instantaneously. I apologized profusely said how I just moved here for the next year etc.. Yeah. That was terrifying

@delinquente1444 Жыл бұрын

@@Son_of_Robin yea i live in the shithole called birmingham and half the actors in the show cant do brummie accent for their life. Thomas sounds a little foreign

@Son_of_Robin Жыл бұрын

@@delinquente1444 I’m with ya. All the true born and raised brummies have an accent that I can’t understand. Old school brummie. Everyone else I know is from the north or south of England.

@1Chasg Жыл бұрын

Nobody in the UK says "Burger joints" either lol

@AviationNB500 Жыл бұрын

“Required to have perfect BirmingHAM accents”

@rogersheddy6414 Жыл бұрын

But they got one key thing connected with the title entirely wrong. This according to someone that is on record as having been a local historian and a descendant of the actual people involved in this. That business about razor blades being stuck in their caps and that they would swing their light little caps around and cut people is pure crap. Historian tells us that they would pull their belts off and swing them at people and hit them with the buckles. This is something that gangs have done for a long time in a variety of places. Now, if you're hit in the face but even just the common d-shaped buckle, you can easily be blinded by the blood coming off your forehead, eyebrow, or even getting hit in the eye. But the actual origin of the phrase, as he had described it, was that they would wear their hats Lowdown so that they would nearly cover one of their eyes so as to show off a particular jayanti image to the ladies. Therefore, the hat would activate "Blinder." Think horse Blinder, like you see on horses in Amish Country or Central Park.

@baddragonite Жыл бұрын

Crazy that they wanted them to sound like a southern American with those Birmingham Alabama accents

@In1go_ Жыл бұрын

Americans realise that that world doesn’t revolve around them challenge (impossible)

@GoyBenius_0901 Жыл бұрын

@@In1go_ The joke is that he's saying Birmingham the way people would pronounce Birmingham, Alabama, in the USA (Birming-ham) not Birmingham in the West Midlands in the UK (Burr-ming-um).

@NpxrDSMNTL Жыл бұрын

Source: trust me bro

@molester999 Жыл бұрын

My source is that I made it the fuck up

@blakksy Жыл бұрын

I mean its true

@scarletwitch6023 Жыл бұрын

Thing is as well there’s so many accents in the Birmingham and West Midlands area. A generic Brummie accent won’t cut it. They are from Small Heath, which sounds completely different to a Black Country accent or the Dudley accent or the Walsall accent etc etc. for such a small area there are literally dozens of accents

@joebees21 Жыл бұрын

Dudley and Walsall is the Black Country

@joebarton4947 Жыл бұрын

Me having lived outside birmingham al for about 7 years of my childhood: this aught a be easy

@d2t228 Жыл бұрын

The way he said Birmingham lmao

@lerbronk Жыл бұрын

imagine comming from birmingham to audit and HR told you "you dont sounds like them enough"

@d4nj0n35 Жыл бұрын

"Ber ming ham" 😂

@aliwooz913 4 ай бұрын

Wow she's beautiful

@woodster605 Жыл бұрын

Bir-Ming-HAM Bro is bir-Mingam

@influx5821 Жыл бұрын

One-Thousand-HAM

@pappajohndodgybob Жыл бұрын

It's brum ing jam

@TANGO762 Жыл бұрын

No it’s Mex-i-can and that’s me 👍🏽

@woodster605 Жыл бұрын

@@pappajohndodgybob lol

@sookibeulah9331 3 ай бұрын

Or even Bur-Ming’m

@dogeclanleader1 Жыл бұрын

The way he pronounced Birmingham 💀

@CuteKyuubi Жыл бұрын

"Burning-Ham"

@Mr.Popo.Official Жыл бұрын

Imagine being from Birmingham and they tell you your not good enough

@joshsimpkins2023 Жыл бұрын

Feels ironic that he's discussing the Brummie accent whilst also pronouncing Birmingham wrong...

@babyfefe999 Жыл бұрын

don't shoot the messenger

@Island_Shore Жыл бұрын

Even this dude can't say 'birmingham' properly 😭😭

@oilimenoruega7836 Жыл бұрын

She should've taken Danny G's course

@RolandBizjets Жыл бұрын

Yet, instead of talking Gypsy Romani language, the spoke ROMANIAN.

@2coolaterz579 Жыл бұрын

Birming HAM

@jokin4743 Жыл бұрын

Peaky blinders accents are mocking it tbh, sounds nothing like it

@rohitbodra6561 8 ай бұрын

why they always walking in slow motion...😂

@gar6446 6 ай бұрын

Polls accent wuz spot on, Arfur too had it roight.

@doctorg5056 Жыл бұрын

Imagine being told you have to do a perfect Birmingham accent, and then finding out they've hired an entiee cast of people who can't do Birmingham accents.

@gamerlyf9979 Жыл бұрын

I'm from Birmingham but don't have the accent, also hearing him fully pronounce Birmingham each time hurt on the inside...

@bestdarrenshanfan Жыл бұрын

lol all the accents are shocking😂😂😂😂

@ryanearl6118 Жыл бұрын

It's like being told a story, then he's just telling it backwards.

@KnellMortem Жыл бұрын

Berr-ming-hham? You mean buh-min-gum?

@josephrichards1763 Жыл бұрын

And then you’ve got Arthur… the most cockney sounding brummy I ever heard

@harrythedivine Жыл бұрын

Btw it's not ber-ming-ham is ber-ming-um

@SqueeZy-jo5sc Жыл бұрын

Well I mean yea, the whole show is based around Birmingham

@Ganjelf Жыл бұрын

Imagine being from Birmingham and getting told “Nah you don’t sound like a brummie mate we can’t accept you”😂😂

@Mickyboi1 Жыл бұрын

Arthur literally has a thick cockney accent

@jacksonconstantine5740 Жыл бұрын

He really doesn’t.

@lilnastyy1604 Жыл бұрын

They must have scrapped the rule because there is no way they all sounded brummy

@esketit1707 Жыл бұрын

This comment section is a massive L

@AlbieStarr Жыл бұрын

Her name is Eleanor Tomlinson

@techdiesel4026 Жыл бұрын

😂savage. I love the focus tho that those casting directors have

@teutonicorder2362 Жыл бұрын

The way you said Birmingham🤣

@attackpatterndelta8949 Жыл бұрын

Living in Birmingham, the accents are a kind of Birmingham accent. But they’re a very Hollywoodised version of what a Birmingham accent sounds like. You’re very unlikely to meet anyone from the city who talks like Tommy Shelby.

@boulevardballs6709 Жыл бұрын

brutal

@dreamsteddybearsmaster 10 ай бұрын

Her name is actually Eleanor Tomlinson

@shxdow5739 Жыл бұрын

Honestly The cast were perfect.

@heftylad Жыл бұрын

Tbf they have often said they wanted to do period-accurate Brummie accents not modern day, yet the occasional character with actual current Brummie accents were always really nice to hear

@Abdullah_Khannn Жыл бұрын

Not Love... It's "Luv"

@radeczech15 Жыл бұрын

Funny how season after season the accents just faded away lmao

@GoyBenius_0901 Жыл бұрын

Went from brummie to londoners to generic "british" accents real quick.

@ggxrazorz9673 Жыл бұрын

Burming HAM

@eharper7 11 ай бұрын

There are literally only seven actors who're actually from Birmingham, lol.

@alexengland-shinemercy Жыл бұрын

This narrator's constant Bir-ming-heyam" is an ironically intrusive accent clanger

@positivitydealer8511 Жыл бұрын

Birmingham moment

@DJSanders23 Жыл бұрын

Clearly wasn’t a rule when casting Cillian.

@sookibeulah9331 3 ай бұрын

Of Helen McCory. I suppose the leads were so great in the roles the producers gave some slack on their accents.

@AndreMonthy Жыл бұрын

BirmingHAM

@azuredystopia3751 Жыл бұрын

What?? A drama set in Birmingham required actors to affect a.....Birmingham accent??!! That's CRAZY omg!!!

@h.w.4482 Жыл бұрын

Burning ham 🤓

@_cptTorres Жыл бұрын

BirmingHAM.

@iammickt Жыл бұрын

Did you know Cillian Murphy went to Birmingham pubs to try master the accent

@reachammad Жыл бұрын

BirmingHAM xD

@Truclord 11 ай бұрын

As someone from Birmingham, i thought they were really from Birmingham before doing research..

@fergaloconnor9553 Жыл бұрын

Bro said Birming... ham

@TransfemBroccoli Жыл бұрын

Another Cillian Murphy W

@GeorgeM56 Ай бұрын

Going to start watching Peaky Blinders!

@bixa1196 Жыл бұрын

Fav peaky blinder Arthur Fuckin Shelby🫡

@dorismoore8452 Ай бұрын

How would jason statham pass the accent test?

@MoMo-kt7ue Жыл бұрын

What if your from there 😂😂😂 you win

@3xyz Жыл бұрын

this guy sounds like DaveHax

@timetraveller3123 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like hes saying Burminham

@lukesawardbeats9629 Жыл бұрын

Berming-ham. 💀

@bobbobbing4220 Жыл бұрын

"bur-ming-um.. not burmingHAM

@valvinny9547 Жыл бұрын

This show is truly great

@Enjoy_Nothing Жыл бұрын

ah yes burbinham

@sprinterofficial8457 Жыл бұрын

How did Sam Neill pass with that Irish accent then

@sookibeulah9331 3 ай бұрын

Because he’s playing a character from Belfast. Sam Neil nailed that Belfast accent.

@billslim1112 Жыл бұрын

They must have made an exception for Arthur

@Paula11117 Жыл бұрын

Attention to details...meanwhile the costumes..😅

@alexgoss7913 Жыл бұрын

This guys voice bru😂

@markdragon9395 Жыл бұрын

Too bad that they didn’t pay the same amount of attention to detail in regard of the Italian accent or more specifically Sicilian accent from actors like Adrien Brody. Whenever he spoke in Sicilian dialect I literally couldn’t understand anything of what he was saying, and I’m telling this as an Italian myself.

@Tesoro1996 Жыл бұрын

"Say Peaky Fookin' Blinders." "Sorry, what?" "Next!"

@itsbritneybisch8552 Жыл бұрын

Now imagine if she was black. That would've been a very different conversation.

@a1morrison290 Жыл бұрын

By order of the peaky fooking blinderz

@user-zg5ej3yh1y Жыл бұрын

I'm a Brummie from Erdington and the reason I can't watch PB is because they sound more black country 'yam yam' than Brummie and their accent is what non brummies assume we sound like