From: blacksheep1968@ymail.com   
      
   On Monday, 8 March 1999 at 08:00:00 UTC, SeanHarry wrote:   
   > >OK, I'll bite (pun intended). Why is Dru's accent so deplorable to   
   > >British viewers? I'm curious...   
   > It's deplorable because it's so bad. I would have voted it as the worst every   
   > interpretation of a foreign accent by an American actor (and Juliet Landau   
   was   
   > brought up in Britain, so she should know better) but I've just heard David   
   > Boreanes's Irish accent, which is even worse.   
   > It would be a bit like all American characters on British TV going around   
   > wearing 10 gallon hats and saying 'Howdy Partner!'   
   > Sean Harry   
   Why oh why don't these American companies just hire actors / actresses who are   
   from the specific British region they want the accent from ? instead of these   
   American actors and actresses who never get it right and mess it all up....   
      
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