To Be Blunt
This week I saw The Great Buck Howard, featuring Emily Blunt. Last week I saw Sunshine Cleaning, featuring Emily Blunt. (They also both feature Steve Zahn--I hope they like working together.)
In both films she has an American accent. It's perfectly believable, but after being introduced to her so memorably in The Devil Wears Prada, where she's British, I couldn't help but think about her accent every time she opened her mouth.
She was born in England, by the way. It actually would have been more interesting if she were American.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:12 AM
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Why is it British and Australian actresses regularly do American accents but it doesn't happen so often in the opposite direction?
Is it becasue Americans are less homogeneous and have a wider array of accents so a foreign phrasing isn't quite so noticeable?
Maybe it's because everyone in England and Australia grows up watching American movies, so the accent comes naturally to them.
Britain is famous for having a distinctly different accent every few miles.
Distinctly different to other brits perhaps
Rent "My Fair Lady."
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