IRISH actor Chris O’Dowd has said since swapping the United States to live in London he worries his kids could end up with English accents.
The IT Crowd and Bridesmaids star had been based in Los Angeles with wife Dawn O’Porter before moving closer to home.
Dad-of-two Chris, 45, admitted: “I don’t know how I’d feel about them having British accents – there’s a lot of generational trauma there!
“Them having American accents I can live with but they are a bit of a mish-mash at the moment – let’s see how it plays out!
“Dawn is English so we always knew we were going to come back. We thought we would wait until the kids were in secondary school but then Covid hit and we suddenly felt very far away.
“Our parents were getting old, I wanted to visit Ireland more. . . I loved LA, though. I remember somebody asking, ‘Does it not just feel like being on holiday all the time?’ and I was like, ‘Yes! That’s the draw.’”
The couple have two sons – aged seven and 10 – and Boyle-born Chris said he tries to bring them back to Ireland now as much as possible.
He continued: “We go back a good bit. They love Nana’s pancakes. My eldest has really got into the habit of wearing Ireland sports gear and he’s this kind of fiery redhead. Somehow, it’s been passed through us!
“I don’t think they even knew I was an actor until a year or two ago. And now they only know because every now and then people stop me for a photo.
“It must be weird for them for people to know who their dad is. But it’s never really a part of our lives.
“Although I was at a party once in LA and this guy comes up to me and says, ‘Oh my God, I play music and I have tinnitus. We’d go touring and I wouldn’t be able to sleep. But I’d put on The IT Crowd and it’d just relax me. You saved rock ’n’ roll, dude!’
“Anyway, he was the guitarist in Green Day.”
Chris O’Dowd and wife Dawn O’Porter have moved to London from LA to be closer to home[/caption]
