Her Australian accent in Kings Speech

Did Geoffery Rush have an Australian accent, too? I'm American, and to me they both sounded like they had English accents.

Oh why are Americans so hopeless with this stuff? I'm Australian. I picked Jennifer's accent as fake within one minute. Geoffrey Rush comes from my home town of Adelaide (which, incidentally, is where Lionel came from). His accent is a more subtle Australian accent. Adelaideans commonly have this type of Australian accent. I imagine the filmmakers probably also assumed that he, as an aspiring actor, adapted his accent to his circumstances meaning that while living in London his accent was tempered somewhat by the influence of the English spoken around him. Jennifer's Australian accent was almost as broad and extreme as the Australian accent can be. It reminded me a little of Merryl Streep's accent in Dark Angels. The Australian accent is one of the hardest to fake. She did an ok job, but still not convincing to me.

Jess I think you are being a bit tough. Jennifer was playing the at home wife of a bloke who didn't have any tertiary quails ( I.e. Working class ) in the 1930s. The accent was broad but probably much more defensible than Streep's accent in the 1980's. I'm guessing Aussie accents were broader before TV taught us all how the rest of the world sounded.

Rush has an extremely subtle accent. Remember during this period Australia was an extremely young country I doubt the accent we know today was as strong back then. Also he would have been pressured to speak in an English accent due to his profession.

"Oh why are Americans so hopeless with this stuff?"

Well, if you want to generalize, jess, then probably because Americans don't hear the different types of Australian accents spoken very often. So unless you sound like Crocodile Dundee, you are English, mate.

I thought her accent was ok, I could tell it was fake, but only because I'm a kiwi, and I've spent a lot of time in Oz. I've heard much worse though, and too be fair, and Australian in England wouod probably pick up a britich accent pretty quick.

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Hello Jess, rude generalizations are apparently a human specialty, so congratulations you join a long line of winners. On the subject of the accent, as a hopeless American (a New Yorker who gets the daily chance to hear accents from upwards of 50 countries), Australian accents are not ones we come by very often. We usually hear them on television or in films and they are usually very thick or similar to that of youtube's "communitychannel" Natalie. I have never had the pleasure of hearing an Aussie accent that was hardly distinguishable from an English accent. But if you ever feel daredevil, and wish to challenge me, I assure you I can tell the difference between Irish, Welsh, and Scots. Good day to you.

whose do you think is worth, jennifers aussie accent or guys english accent:-) i didnt like his accent (im english).