Connie Booth's Accent
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warren_houghton — 14 years ago(July 27, 2011 01:11 PM)
She's American (at least originally), but same difference.
Some people can do accents, some better than others, and some just can't. I can do certain ethnic American accents convincingly, but even though I think of myself as a Brit born into an American body, I don't think I could ever learn how to sound convincingly British, at least not without long term total immersion. -
insane-romantic — 14 years ago(September 29, 2011 04:02 AM)
I didn't even know she was American until I saw a documentary on Fawlty Towers and Connie Booth was talking in her original accent - it was so strong I could barely understand her!
However, I was only about 10 when I first saw these and I probably wouldn't have noticed her accent being put on and now I'm just used to that being Polly's voice, so I'm not the best judge! -
chris-2086 — 14 years ago(March 16, 2012 04:13 AM)
.She's not doing an English accent, and she's certainly not doing a Devon accent. Polly is meant to be an American who moved here, I'm sure. She sings a song from Oklahoma, she references Annie Hall.both much bigger in the States than here. And when Cleese mimics her in Basil the Rat he does an American accent.
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TwittingOnTrender — 13 years ago(May 04, 2012 03:37 AM)
I agree with Chris, above. I knew she was American and never thought for a moment she was trying to "do" British (or English, more accurately).
She sounds like what she is (as John Cleese's ex wife) - an American who has lived in the UK and smoothed off their accent a little. Not neccessarily going for the full Brit like Madonna, but just taking some of the edges off it to make it more understandable.
I'm Irish and my wife is a New Yorker, and we both live in the UK! I always pull her up if I hear an English inflection - her most common one is saying "NoTTingham", which I force her to repeat as "Naddinghaaaaaam!"
More seriously, we have both toned down our accents over the years - people just couldn't understand me when I first came over and I was constantly being told to slow down. I wouldn't change my accent for the world, I maybe just made it more understandable.
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