Re: Best/Worst American Accents By Brits

On May 28, 1:46 am, "benli...@xxxxxxxxxx" <benli...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 28, 3:23 pm, "Peter T. Daniels" <gramma...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've never seen most of those shows, and I've never heard of most of
the ones I haven't seen, but the one Worst I would list is Rachel
Griffiths (Brothers and Sisters) -- especially in the first season,
her Brit came out whenever she got excited.

South Brit, maybe. She's Australian.

Really! I figured she was the granddaughter (vel sim.) of Hugh
Griffiths, who was the bad guy in *Tom Jones* many years ago.

I don't remember noticing this problem  in "Six Feet Under".

Maybe someday I'll see an episode of it ...

As for the ones I have seen (Worsts 3, 4, 8, 13, and 17 = Bests 2, 1,
7, 18, 13), I would have no idea that any of them was not American,
except for Joely Richardson because I have the DVDs and she does
interviews in the extras. (Pushing Daisies never came back, even in
reruns, after the strike, so it's been something like 6 months since
I've seen it.)

I can't say I watch any of these shows regularly. But I have been
impressed when I've occasionally hear Hugh Laurie's American. Maybe
it's the contrast with the way I remember him as Bertie Wooster...

Couldn't stand that, tried it a couple of times.
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