Not sure why they even bothered casting her. Had a very amateur University theatre feel to it.
She should stick to playing Americans like in a Most Violent Year where she had an effective New York accent.
Part of the problem is that her idea for the accent is to talk like some old lady rather than someone her age.
They should just gotten Andrea Risbourough or one of the girls from Dowton Abbey. Even someone like Amy Nuttall would have been better.
Old tired subject. There are plenty of examples of British, French, or Australian actors playing American characters and doing a poor American accent. It is the nature of the movie-making business, they hire the actors they want and then try to coach them in an authentic accent.
For people who actually try to watch and understand the story the non authentic accent isn't an issue at all.
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It never fails. Every single movie or TV show set in Great Britain or Ireland results in complaints about the accents, usually from aggrieved locals who don't seem to care about any other aspect of film making. The actors in a movie set in Belfast have Dublin accents! Horrors! Joanna Vanderham doesn't sound sufficiently Scottish - even though she grew up in Scone. I could go on and on.
shareShe reaches Liv Ullman levels of acting and people are trying to find anything to attack her performance, even something virtually irrelevant as an accent slightly flawed. Talk about film elitism.
shareIt's not only the accent. She is overacting. This role is too much for her (limited) possibilities.
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The character was Anglo-Irish aristocracy (colonizers from Great Britain). They probably took pains to *not* sound like the local common people when speaking.
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