Posted on 09/15/2020 6:55:17 AM PDT by C19fan
Millie Bobby Brown has revealed that she struggled to do a British accent in her new role Enola Holmes after five years in the American Netflix series Stranger Things.
The actress, 16, who shot to fame as Eleven in the hit Netflix show, revealed she 'found it really challenging being British' in the role of the upcoming mystery film.
Millie, who grew up in Dorset, England, and settled in Florida with her family to pursue her acting career aged eight, said she 'had to learn how to speak again'.
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If it is woke she should speak ebonics, no?
The queen’s english isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Power to the people and all that rot.
Actors and actresses have done various accents in the movies.
Personally, I thought Kate Winslet did a good American accent in “Titanic”.
Playing a character who has a certain accent is part of acting in some roles.
>>The actress, 16<<
Sorry kid. To netfix you were an old hag, at least 5 years too old to make it as a sex star.
I wonder if she had to “relearn” which hand to use to hold her fork?
I don't think we see this as much in American actors. For example, if one is from the south, one is taught in school to pronounce words properly and to discard the southern twang. It would be unusual to hear an American actor who speaks properly in films and TV speaking with a twang when off camera.
Of course the ability to speak in a variety of accents is beneficial for actors. I remember reading the Kenneth Branagh, while a young actor was cast as an Irishman in a play or TV show. Even though he was born in Belfast, he had unlearned his Irish brogue and had to learn it all over again.
It takes real talent to alter your speech patterns. Most expats still retain most of their original accent. To turn an accent on and off is a real accomplishment.
Gwyneth Paltrow does a pretty good English accent also.
I enjoy watching various British mystery TV shows. Every so often there is an American character. One from the 1980’s looked and sounded like Colonel Sanders. More modern takes have the actor sounding flat, with very little affect. Sounds funny to me, then I wonder how awful our British accents sound to them.
Renee Zellweger beat out five or six British actresses for that Bridget Jones part.
“The queen’s English isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.”
A lot of Americans do not realize how different the written and verbal form of the British’s English is. There are over 7 different dialects of English in the UK.
The grammar (verbs, nouns, present/past tense) can be different too. Example: nouns can be singular or plural in the queen’s language.
“I wonder how awful our British accents sound to them.”
There are parts of England that speak Southern. Southern English is the closest to the Queen’s English.
This girl is the 2nd coming. She can flat-out act.
Shaun Evans of Endeavour has a strong Liverpool accent in real life — shocking to some fans to hear Morse sounding like a Beatle!
Why wouldn’t they? That’s their accent, their speaking voice, why should they not use. Technically there’s no “proper”. The “proper” accent is the one the rich and famous have. But it’s still just another accent, and if the seat of cultural power moved then there’d be a new “proper”. American actors have an industrial need to fit in in LA. Which means sticking with the middle American accent that has become the norm there and in the industry. But some actors choose not to fit in. McConaughey mostly sticks with his Texas accent these days, he’s decided he doesn’t fit in.
That would be a shock!
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