Imagine the HP films were cast in the US

[artsylynda at aol.com]

>>I love Lord of the Rings, but the guy that plays Samwise had  a lame 
british accent (sorry! I know he's Patty Duke Astin's son!) Elijah  did 
a decent job of it with Frodo. And Viggo Mortenson played a great  
Aragorn. But it's so iffy when you 'fake it' like that. I forget in 
what  interview, but someone asked Dan Rad if his accent was real. LOL! 
Thank  goodness it is; I love all those actors. And thank goodness Dan's 
parents  insisted on staying in London and not moving to Hollywood. I 
cringe to think  what would've happened to those kids here, in the 'wild 
west'.  :-)
Valerie<<

Actors do other accents all the time, with  more or less success.  When you 
saw Alfred Molina as "Doc Ock" in  "Spiderman 2" did you realize he's actually 
English?  He does a great  American accent.  Hugh Laurie, who plays "House" is 
English.  Anthony  LaPaglia who plays "Jack" on that FBI series where they 
find missing people (my  brain just hiccupped, can't think of the name - oh, 
"Without a Trace"!   Yeah, that's it) is Australian, as is Poppy Montgomery, the 
pretty blond on that  show.  Dan Radcliffe does a credible Aussie accent 
(Adelaide version,  according to him and an interviewer from Adelaide who said his 
accent was "spot  on") in "December Boys." Some are better at accents than 
others.  Sean  Astin's accent wasn't as well-done as Elijah Wood's in LOTR, but 
not everyone  has an ear for accents.  But for someone to ask Dan if his real 
accent was  real - LOL!  I haven't seen that interview!  What a dumb 
interviewer  (who didn't do their homework!).
 
It's interesting in the HP films to hear all the different  accents of the 
actors - the kids are from all over England, Scotland and  Ireland.  I wonder 
why Devon Murray's Irish accent is so much stronger than  Evanna Lynch's, when 
she's from Ireland too?  Brits and Irish people would  know, I suppose, or 
perhaps her mother, like mine, refused to let Evanna sound  like a "country" girl 
and trained her to have a more posh or "lighter" accent  (I'm Southern, and my 
mother refused to allow me to use Southern expressions  like "right sorry" - 
as a consequence, I have mostly a "mid-American" accent  with Southern 
"touches" here and there).  Is Maggie Smith really Scottish  (I don't know, 
honestly)?  Her Scot accent is lovely, whether fake or  real.  
 
I'm glad we have REAL accents to listen to in the films,  rather than actors 
trying to have the proper accent, no matter how good they  are.  The small 
variations in their accents from region to region are  fascinating to hear.
 

Lynda AKA "Abraxan"

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