[HPFGU-Movie] Accents [WAS: Casting Umbridge]

[Iggy McSnurd]

>
> Yeah <says Nox, disgruntled>. I don't know *where* some people get their
> 'Australian' accents from; they are so deplorably bad! Although now there
> are so many Aussies popping up all over the place in all kinds of movies
> (tickled me that two of the leads in a movie about America's struggle for
> independence were Australian...) that many of the accents are real...
> hehehe...
>
> Nox (wishing Aussies made a big deal about Halloween, but it's the wrong
> time of year anyway. Bring on Beltane!)
>

*grin* Actually, Mel Gibson (who I assume is one of the "Aussies" you're
mentioning...) is an American.  He just spent a good deal of his childhood
and early adult years in Australia.  (Hence, his incredibly accurate Aussie
accent.  And the fact that they had to re-do the voice track for him in "Mad
Max" for American release because he had such a thick Australian accent that
they were afraid that Americans wouldn't understand a word he was saying.)

Date of birth (location)
3 January 1956
Peekskill, New York, USA


(Gained from the IMDB web site...)


Iggy McSnurd
the Prankster