Nancy travis's accent

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ssblakey — 13 years ago(November 04, 2012 02:02 PM)

anyone else thought her accent was really bad?

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lolstar6 — 13 years ago(November 05, 2012 01:51 AM)

Unless they are deaf, there is no way anyone could have thought her accent was good.
"What, you don't like rice? Tell me Michael, how could a billion Chinese people be wrong?"

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ExplorerDS6789 — 13 years ago(November 10, 2012 03:47 PM)

Yep. I don't know why Americans suck at doing British accents, but the British do pretty good American accents. Case in point: Bob Hoskins.

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lolstar6 — 13 years ago(November 13, 2012 08:32 AM)

I think the American accent may be easier than the British accent to pull off
awaits angry disagreement from Americans
"What, you don't like rice? Tell me Michael, how could a billion Chinese people be wrong?"

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ExplorerDS6789 — 13 years ago(November 13, 2012 12:58 PM)

Surely they could have hired a British actress to play Sylvia. Was Emma Thompson too busy or something? Same deal with V for Vendetta, Natalie Portman couldn't do a British accent to save her life.

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joeann_21 — 13 years ago(December 05, 2012 10:16 AM)

I am the minority here - I was quite surprised to hear that Nancy Travis was American.
I really believed her accent and I am not deaf or dumb!

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marsha-twitty-1 — 13 years ago(December 16, 2012 01:56 PM)

You are right that her accent could have been better, but some Americans do Brits very well: case in point, James Marsters as Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Renee Zilwiger in Bridget Jones' Diary; Jennifer Ehle, as Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and prejudice, to name a few. Like anything else, it just depends on the actor.

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Kawada_Kira — 13 years ago(February 07, 2013 08:04 AM)

James Marsters isn't British? Wow, i'd never have guessed. His accent was perfect in Buffy.
But yeah, Nancy Travis wasn't very good at her accent.
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MissyBaby — 11 years ago(June 16, 2014 10:53 PM)

I was born in 1989, so I've been watching this movie my entire life, it's one of my favorites. I guess because I've been watching it for nearly 25 years that I always assumed Nancy Travis was a Brit. I was super surprised to read that she wasn't. As an adult, knowing that she isn't British I am able to pick out the failures in her accent, but for years and years I had no clue.