From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   Op 14-8-2021 om 00:41 schreef David:   
   > "Barbie Blacksheep"  wrote in message   
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   > 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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   >         I've wondered that myself, many times.   
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   I wonder how Americans think of American characters such as Greg House,   
   Rick Grimes etc.) played by British people. Do they do a better job?   
      
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