Butler picks up Easton accent.HUNKY hun·ky 1 n. pl. hun·kies Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a person, especially a laborer, from east-central Europe. actor Gerard Butler has admitted he's losing his Scottish accent - just like Sheena Easton Sheena Easton (born Sheena Shirley Orr on April 27, 1959, Bellshill, North Lanarkshire, Scotland) is a Scottish Grammy Award-winning pop singer and theatre & television actress. . Paisley-born Butler says he has started picking up an American twang similar to the Nine To Five singer. The 39-year-old said: "I have to confess I always hated any person from Scotland who went and lost their accent in the slightest. "When Sheena Easton made it in America and suddenly started talking in an accent, I swore and threw shoes at her on television. "But I've spent a year and a half now playing roles as an American and I'm not comfortable enough doing those accents only when we film, so I have to keep it up all the time. "I really hate myself for doing that." Butler plays a maverick Maverick family name of two brothers, Bret and Bait; self-centered and untrustworthy gentlemen gamblers. [TV: Terrace, II, 80] See : Gambling TV star in his current movie, romantic comedy The Ugly Truth. He said: "Everybody expected me to do it as a Scotsman but the character was American to me, so I played him that way." CAPTION(S): Twang: Gerard Butler |
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