It’s New Year’s Eve, So Here’s Patrick Stewart Mooing Like a British Cow
It’s New Year’s Eve, you’re settling down or getting ready to party, so here’s a nice end-of-year present for you: Sir Patrick Stewart, Shakespearian actor, star of stage and screen, mooing like a cow. Yes, that Sir Patrick Stewart. Mooing. Like a British cow.
A caller into NPR’s How To Do Everything podcast asked for an idea of how a person could “moo” in a British accent because, after all, there are cows in Great Britain. Enter Stewart to make it so.
It takes a rare kind of actor to be so serious when talking about such a silly subject, but Stewart played things perfectly deadpan.
“It’s not a straightforward, simple answer. Unlike, probably, many other countries where a cow’s moo is a cow’s moo, in England, you understand, we are dominated by class, by social status and by location. So, for example, a cow that is in the field next to my house in West Oxfordshire would moo in one kind of way, and a cow in a field in the semi-industrial town I grew up in in the North of England would moo in another kind of way.”
And then he proceeded to share examples of how cows in different parts of England would moo. Seriously. There’s an Oxford moo, a Cockney moo, and basically every other kind of moo you can think of. All performed by Patrick Stewart. Acting!
Seriously, this is the best end-of-year present ever. Listen to the audio of Sir Patrick Stewart mooing like a bovine below, via NPR:
Oh, and here’s some bonus Stewart for you, in what is quite possibly the best (NSFW) movie clip of all time:
Happy new year.
[h/t NPR]
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