thewrongbookshop
asked:
Who decided David Tennant and Michael Sheen should have English accents and why? They were phenomenal as they were, of course (the entire cast is amazing!!!), but Welsh seems way more angelic and Scottish would suit Crowley too. Not a bad decision, but one I'm curious about. Ps. I usually have to treat adaptions as coincidentally similar to the source material so I'm not disappointed but, while I still think of it as a parallel universe to the book, I did not have to do that for Good Omens.
answered:
Our (Scottish) director and I talked a lot about the Englishness of Good Omens, and decided that that was the feel we were going for. But it was set for us by the book. Had Terry said that on meeting Aziraphale people were struck by his Welshness, he would have been Welsh