Not from New Zealand, but I thought she did a great job of imitating a Kiwi accent. Any Kiwis out there able to validate?
shareI'm a kiwi and was impressed with her efforts, although she still tended to slip into more of an Aussie accent as did all the other actors.
shareI thought it was awful, most of the Australian accents were. I am not a kiwi.
shareMaybe people just don't like the kiwi accent... haha
shareI had no clue that was her!!! They somehow plumped up the 3 lead actresses, so it was difficult to recognize them. Good job!
shareHer Kiwi accent was a particular type of Kiwi accent that is most common in young NZ women - I'm not sure it quite fitted someone of Jan's generation. As others mentioned, she also slipped into an Aussie accent, there was one line in particular than came across very Aussie, when she said that her unborn daughter was going to be "a climber"
shareI'd be curious to get some more thoughts from actual New Zealanders, because it's hard to fool native speakers (I spot bad American accents in a snap). To me she and Jason Clarke nailed it, but the bulk of my exposure to the lovely NZ accent comes from watching the behind the scenes stuff on my Lord of the Rings DVDs.
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I'm a kiwi but I haven't seen the movie, only clips. Based on what I heard, Watson was great, Knightley not so much, and Clarke didn't even try.
But a kiwi accent is very difficult to imitate properly so I appreciate the effort from them all!
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Awesome, thanks for the NZ perspective, heat_like_burning!
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I'm a Kiwi. Knightley did really well. Her accent was as annoying as a natural kiwi accent is in real life.
shareI'm about 10 minutes in and came to comment on her Australian accent - I had no idea she was attempting a New Zealand accent. Being an Australian, her accent definitely sounded more Australian, but it sounded great! It's a hard accent to pull off...more so for American actors, being British she wouldn't have struggled as much.
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I must say though, Emily Watson was spot on with her accent. My mum is a kiwi, so I am able to validate :)
Oh, nice socks, man. Nice socks. Nice socks.
hi teakau....interesting take on these two.
i at first didn't recognise keira, coz i thought she was an aussie actress because of the accent. i remember thinking, this chick looks a lot like keira knightly, but couldn't be, because i have never heard a non-aussie actor nail the accent. But she did! Ironically as it turns out, it was meant to be a kiwi accent.
Emily watson, on the other hand, i thought did a great job, but seemed a bit over the top, sort of like a caricature of the kiwi accent.
btw, I'm from aus