Anna Friel’s Nanny Knows Best
SAYS self-assured actress Anna Friel: “I know my roots and where I’m from – I’m northern and I always will be. Now Gracie’s talking with northern mannerisms.”
Gracie is Friel’s two-year-old daughter, who loves with her mum and actor father, David Thewlis, in the northern idyll of Los Angeles.
In Anorak’s experience, a child born to parents living in the North is more likely to take on a Northern accent than a child born to parents living in the South.
This may have escaped Friel, who nonetheless believes that hiring a northern nanny, as the Mirror reports, will make Gracie able to recite “Oi’m a poor cotton-weyver, as mony a one knoowas, Oi’ve nout for t’year, an’ oi’ve word eawt my clooas” and “I’ll swing for our Jack” with equal authenticity.
The plan can only work. Although there is a slight risk of infection (surely, affection – ed) should Gracie, Friel or nanny ever leave the family mansion…
Posted: 22nd, January 2008 | In: Celebrities, Tabloids Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
