Kit Harington praised for Irish accent in Modern Love

London born star Kit Harington has shared that he was relieved when he got the seal of approval for his Irish accent in the TV series Modern Love after being blasted by UK critics.

The actor recently starred in the second season of the Amazon series alongside Bohemian Rhapsody star Lucy Boynton as an Irish man who falls in love on the Galway to Dublin train.

As his character Michael is from Dublin, the actor, best known for his Yorkshire brogue as Jon Snow in The Game Of Thrones series, admitted he felt pressure when it to perform the Irish accent accurately.

“I’m terrible for reading reviews. I read reviews, which is a bad idea as an actor. And I read a review from an English journalist saying how bad my Irish accent was,” he told Dermot and Dave on Today FM.

"And then the Dublin Gazette I think it was, or one of the Irish papers, came out and said it was good and I thought, ‘yes, come on.’

"I’m just glad that I did your accent justice.”

As Harington's episode was shot in Dublin and Wicklow in the midst of the pandemic, the star talked about how wonderful it was spending time in quarantine by Blessington Lakes, where he hung out with Bohemian Rhapsody actor Rami Malek, Boynton's partner.

"We stayed out there, we quarantined out there. I saw Rami out there because we were out there at the same time," Harrington shared.

“We just had a really lovely time, I couldn’t think of a nicer place to quarantine than next to Lake Blessington going for swims, you know it was lovely.”

The anthology series developed by Irish director John Carney, is based onThe New York Times column and podcast of the same name, with each half-hour episode telling the tale of a true love story.

The second season moved outside of New York City, filming episodes in Ireland, like Harington's episode 'Strangers on a (Dublin) Train', and around the UK.

The star is celebrating his Marvel debut in Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao’s Eternals, playing Dane Whitman, a caring museum worker and present-day love interest of Gemma Chan’s Sersi.