The Voice of V

[sawyl]

Over lunch at the BTP today, vincel mentioned his bemusement over Hugo Weaving's peculiar accent in V for Vendetta, which, he asserted, sounded very like Lord Winston of Hammersmith.

Well, the time puzzlement is at an end, for Weaving has demystified his inspiration in an interview:

My voice is a weird mixture of Australian sounds and some English sounds. All these characters (in the film) are English so I had to get rid of my Australian-ness. V is a very theatrical character - when he first meets Evey he was a humble vaudevillian veteran. So I thought of him as an actor, that was his profession before he was thrown in the clink.

So, there you go. A Shakespearean actor, not a fertility expert. Phew.