Jack O’Connell has revealed he believes his accent is the reason he hasn’t found more success in Hollywood.
The British actor, 33, has appeared in numerous American productions but has yet to break into the mainstream alongside fellow Skins star and now Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya.
Jack starred opposite George Clooney and Julie Roberts in 2016’s Money Monster, directed by Jodie Foster and was hand-picked by Angelina Jolie to lead the cast of her 2014 film Unbroken.
But he told it The Sunday times: ‘The Derby twang is not marketable, I think Americans think I’m a hillbilly, that I support Trump, which I wouldn’t.
“But here we go, there’s damn all I can do about it.”
Jack O’Connell, 33, has revealed he believes his accent is the reason he hasn’t found more success in Hollywood
The British actor has starred in numerous American productions but has yet to break into the mainstream, alongside fellow Skins star and now Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya (pictured in 2021)
Jack starred opposite George Clooney and Julie Roberts in 2016’s Money Monster, directed by Jodie Foster (pictured) and was hand-picked by Angelina Jolie to lead the cast of her 2014 film Unbroken.
Back home in Britain, Jack appeared on the West End stage with Sienna Miller and starred in Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and BBC drama SAS Rogue Heroes.
He will also soon be seen in the controversial Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black as the singer’s estranged husband, Blake Fielder-Civil.
Jack joined the teen drama Skins in 2009 as James Cook for its third season, with a new set of actors replacing the original cast, including Daniel, Nicholas Hoult and Dev Patel.
London-born Daniel shot to fame in Get Out in 2017 before winning Best Supporting Actor for Judas and the Black Messiah in 2021.
Meanwhile, Nicholas, from Berkshire, was cast as Beast in Matthew Vaughn’s X Men First Class and will next be seen as Lex Luthor in the highly anticipated Superman reboot.
While Dev from Harrow was nominated for a BAFTA for Slumdog Millionaire and recently starred and directed in the action film Monkey Man.
Elsewhere in the interview, Jack defended Back To Black, describing it as a ‘celebration’ of the life of later singer Amy Winehouse.
The actor plays Blake Fielder-Civil, the star’s husband, in the upcoming film alongside Industry’s Marisa Abela, 27, as Amy, who tragically died of alcohol poisoning in 2011 at the age of 27.
But he said: ‘The Derby twang is not marketable, I think Americans think I’m a hillbilly, that I support Trump, which I wouldn’t do’
Jack joined E4’s teen drama Skins as James Cook (L) for its third season in 2009, with a new group of actors replacing the original cast, including Daniel (R in 2007) Nicholas Hoult and Dev Patel.
Nicholas, from Berkshire, was cast as Beast in Matthew Vaughn’s X Men First Class and will next be seen as Lex Luther in the highly anticipated Superman reboot (pictured in The Great with Elle Fanning)
While Harrow’s Dev was nominated for a BAFTA for Slumdog Millionaire and recently starred and directed in the action film Monkey Man (pictured)
Back To Black, which is endorsed by Amy’s father Mitch (played by Eddie Marsan), has sparked outrage from the singer’s friends who slammed it for its “grisly” depictions of the star’s drug addiction and also the filming of her funeral.
But wondering if it was “too early” to make the biopic Jack championed, the filmmakers asked what an “acceptable timescale” would be.
She said: ‘Put it this way: if we were trying to portray her in any kind of negative light, then that could be a valid point and I can understand one or two people prejudging that. But if you talk to Sam (Taylor-Johnson, director), we don’t even call this a biopic, it’s a celebration.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Jack defended Back To Black, describing it as a ‘celebration’ of the life of later singer Amy Winehouse (pictured in the film with co-star Marisa Abela)