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| re: Accents. | |
| Posted by: NewtonUK 01:43 pm EDT 03/30/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Accents. - Chazwaza 07:25 pm EDT 03/29/18 | |
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| The accents I hear in American plays in London may not be accurate always - for instance there are words like 'anything' and 'everything' that virtually no UK actor can say like an American. But they do a better job. As do Aussies. There a zillion great actors in America, and in the UK. But while we have many many UK actors playing Americans on our TV shows - Damian Lewis on Homeland and Billions, Matthew Rhys on The Americans, Hugh Laurie in House, Andrew Lincoln The Walking Dead, Idris Elba the Wire, Laura Fraser in Breaking Bad, Ruth Wilson in The Affair, Millie Bobbie Brown in Stranger Things, Stephen Moyer in True Blood - not to mention British actors playing American seamlessly in movies - including Rebecca HAll, Tom Hardy, Carey Mulligan, Alfred Molina, Michael Sheen, David Oyelowo, Daniel Craig, Bob Hoskins, David Suchet - the list goes on. Where is the list of Americans convincingly playing Brits? Gwyneth Paltrow and .... John Lithgow more or less as Churchill. Accents do matter. When they are important to the script. As they are in PYGMALION and MFL. Otherwise nonsense is made of every word Higgins utters. And thats not a good idea. Liza nd Alfred Doolittle are father and daughter speaking the same Cockney. If they;re not, what's the point. |
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| If we are to trust Higgins, Eliza and her father do NOT speak the same Cockney (nm) | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 02:09 am EDT 04/01/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Accents. - NewtonUK 01:43 pm EDT 03/30/18 | |
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| re: Accents. | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 07:59 pm EDT 03/30/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Accents. - NewtonUK 01:43 pm EDT 03/30/18 | |
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| I actually think this has far more to do with bias on the parts of directors, casting directors, producers than it does with the insanely imblanced ratio of acting talent with accents in the UK/AU than America. Lots of Americans do great UK accents, but people would rather hire brits to do them if it's not a star, in large part because this country has always had a complex about British actors being superior. But to propose that there are such a vastly disproportionate number of american actors able to do accents than non-Americans able to do American accents is crazy. I mean, not even all the people who work in American roles can do it... take the other Brit from The Wire, Dominic West.. I knew in the first 5 minutes that he was British. That happens ALL THE TIME. These people don't get good American roles because they've proven they can do an accent, it's because theyre good actors and the train and get coaches and are taken a chance on. Americans have the same thing, but i don't think they are trusted as much. And for the record you do the argument no good by pretending the only two Americans who have convincingly played Brits are Gwyneth Paltrow and John Lithgow. |
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