British Accents (WAS: the casting of Emma Thompson as trelawney)

[ms_tamany]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "entropymail" 
<entropymail at y...> wrote:
>
> 
> Though not British, the two actors I've seen who always seem
> to have a bit of an accent creep through when they're doing an
> American accent are Nicole Kidman and Mel Gibson (and Gibson should
> know better, as he's spent so much of his life in the US).  Very
> hurtful to my ears. 
> 
> :: Entropy ::


Well, I'm not gonna make any apologies for Kidman, since she's quite 
Australian, but Mel Gibson, being American by birth, by definition, 
has an American accent.  ;-)

No, really, though, what *kind* of American accent are you looking 
for?  Boston?  Seattle?  Arizona?  Texas?  
Mississsississiissiipppi?  We're a big place, with a LOT of 
accents.  Though, it's true that, since the advent of television, 
our regional accents have been melding as we've been exposed to 
wider and wider cross-section of actors, reporters, and commentators.

Anyway, it just struck me as funny, about Mel Gibson not having an 
American accent.  His beautiful Aussie accent has been TOO 
Americanized, to me!  :-D

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Tammy
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