• Bobby Turkalino@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    The Chernobyl miniseries used American and British accents. Who cares. Accents have nothing to do with how actors convey emotion

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      2 months ago

      I would rather have Americans acting in their own accent that butchering someone else’s. Even if they do an okay job, sometimes it can feel like they’re concentrating so hard on maintaining the accent that their performance loses its depth and starts sounding like line rehearsal.

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        2 months ago

        on the flip side when i first heard Damian Lews in an interview I was gob smacked after seeing him in Homeland and Band of Brothers

        I’m an Aussie so perhaps his faux American accent was terrible?

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        2 months ago

        And all the brits or aussies in movies doing americam accents. I presume you harbor similar irritation at them

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          2 months ago

          There’s not many comparatively, but yes - I prefer Australians to act in their native accent.