Why not an Irish accent?

Rating: Null/10 (19 November 2004)

If every British and American Actor get to speak in their native accents when doing a film why not the Irish? If he speaks anything other than Alexander's original tongue, then it is wrong. So why not an Irish accent over an American or British one? I'm sick of watching historical epics where people feign the aforementioned accents when the original characters didn't even speak English in the first place. Besides, he wasn't the only Irish actor on set, hence the other Irish accents you hear in the film. Farrel has had to put on accents in most of his other films and he has done so quite well. Now he gets a chance to put all emphasis on the emotion and passion behind Alexander without having to reshoot because his American accent wasn't up to par. I'd like to shake the hand of the one who let him use his own accent. Fair play to ya.