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data-id=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/04\/15\/peter-andre-debuts-disturbing-fake-jamaican-accent-bonkers-new-movie-trailer-22910087\/\">new film Jafaican<\/a>, which is set to launch at the Gold Coast Film Festival in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/all-about\/Australia\">Australia<\/a>\u00a0on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Andre, 52, was slammed for posing as a Jamaican man\u00a0with a fake accent and dreadlocks in the film’s trailer, which dropped last month. <\/p>\n<p>The movie was teased: \u2018Desperate to secure \u00a335,000 for his gran\u2019s care, small-time crook Gazza jumps on a risky tip-off and hatches a daring scam.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018With just 21 days to pull it off, he must immerse himself in Jamaican culture to con his way between <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/london\/\">London<\/a> and Jamaica.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming film follows Gary Buckle – played by Peter – who decides to impersonate a Jamaican gangster in order to steal his money to pay for his own 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[Gary] is in a situation where he has to get money to help his [grandmother].’<\/p>\n<p>Andre continued: ‘He tries everything and basically comes up with this scheme because apparently Gary looks like this guy in Jamaica who happens to be ready to inherit $3 million. So he comes up with this planning thinking ‘well if I look like him, surely I could just go to Jamaica for a little bit and keep my mouth shut maybe and I’ll get the money and help my nan’. And of course, that’s not gonna go smoothly at all.’<\/p>\n<p>He was asked in the interview: ‘The trailer did see some headlines about an English-born Australian-raised actor playing a Jamaican character, you know about that. Are you surprised there’s been some mixed feedback here or were you anticipating that?’<\/p>\n<p>Andre replied: ‘Well, to be fair, I mean, I think it’s good to get all sorts of feedback. I mean, this is not … it’s my first lead role but I’ve done quite a few roles before. And all of them, I’ve played different characters.’<\/p>\n<p>He continued: ‘So for me, it’s acting – I get to do something light-hearted, something funny. Something that y’know is the kind of film I’d wanna watch. So it’s almost like a little bit self-indulgent in the sense that I get to do something that I’ve really, really wanted to do.’<\/p>\n<p>The singer went on to praise director Fredi Nwaka, saying: ‘[He’s] so good because he doesn’t let me just play the character that you think you’re gonna play. He always gets me to play someone very, very different.’<\/p>\n<p>Social media users have continued to be vocal about the film. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Peter Andre starring as the lead character of a film called JAFAICAN where he\u2019s pretending to be a Jamaican and wearing a dreadlock wig is not something I was expecting to see in the year of our Lord 2025 but here we are\u2026\u2019 Ronke posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This cannot be real,\u2019 Harriet questioned.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018What decade are we living in????\u2019 Ben shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Wish I could blame AI for this,\u2019 Cass added.<\/p>\n<p>Others called it \u2018outrageous\u2019, \u2018nonsense\u2019 and said they were \u2018lost for words\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Got a story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">If you\u2019ve got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\">Metro.co.uk<\/a> entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@metro.co.uk, calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/submit-stuff\/\">Submit Stuff<\/a> page – we\u2019d love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{“@context”:”https:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”VideoObject”,”name”:”Metro.co.uk”,”duration”:”T45S”,”thumbnailUrl”:”https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/05\/07\/11\/98126195-0-image-m-46_1746612945021.jpg”,”uploadDate”:”2025-05-07T11:07:36+0100″,”description”:”The singer addressed the criticism of his first lead role in Jafaican head on when he returned to Australia for the film’s premiere.”,”contentUrl”:”https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2025\/05\/07\/4339956927336266565\/480x270_MP4_4339956927336266565.mp4″,”height”:270,”width”:480} To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next Previous Page Next Page window.addEventListener(‘metroVideo:relatedVideosCarouselLoaded’, function(data) { if (typeof(data.detail) === ‘undefined’ || typeof(data.detail.carousel) === ‘undefined’ || typeof(data.detail.carousel.el_) === ‘undefined’) { return; } var player = data.detail.carousel.el_; var container = player.closest(‘.metro-video-player’); var placeholder = container.querySelector(‘.metro-video-player__up-next-placeholder’); container.removeChild(placeholder); container.classList.add(‘metro-video-player–related-videos-loaded’); }); … <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/peter-andre-finally-responds-to-film-backlash-after-using-fake-jamaican-accent-and-dreadlocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “Peter Andre finally responds to film backlash after using fake Jamaican accent and dreadlocks”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6625,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6622\/revisions\/6625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}