Accents

I am just curious why you think Kirstie Alley had one of the worst accents? She sounded like a Pennsylvanian to me. I live in PA and she sounded like most people around here do. From what I have seen her in, that is her real voice without an accent. I could be wrong though.

Also, when you said Wendy Kilbourne was "the same" do you mean you thought she was believable like the actor you named above or that she was using her "real/same" accent. Because I believe she is Irish-American, not Irish.

I do not know southern accents as well as people who hear them everyday so I may be off the mark but I wasn't impressed with Lesley Anne-Down's accent. You can hear her British accent come through several times. I also read on here somewhere (it was critiqued by a person from one of the southern states) that Genie Francis's accent was bad and Terri Garber's was good except a few times when she was yelling. Anyone out there from the southern states have any input on which Main sister had the more realzitic accent? I am curious.

As far as the northern accents go, I think the entire Hazard family did a decent job with them.

Casnoff's attempt at a Southern accent was the worst I've ever heard. As a native Southerner, I cringed when I would hear him open his mouth.

I think a bad accent is also when the actor keeps switching between two or more accents in one scene.

Hands down, the WORST accent in the entire trilogy comes from an extra in Book 2. Remember the scene where we first see Orry, Jr (presumably days after he was born)? Well, the actress that plays the nurse in that scene had a TERRIBLE accent! She manages to go between Southern and Irish in a matter of a few phrases; it's so bad that it's funny! The way she says "beautiful" is hilarious ("Beeya-YU-TI-ful").

AS far as good accents, I thought that all of the Mains sounded like authentic Southerners. I'm from North Carolina, so I've heard a lot of the same sounds from people here that I did from the Mains. I think people should give Phillip Casnoff a break- his accent was good. What makes his speech so gag-inducing isn't his accent, but the fervor he speaks with. So many of his phrases have such a strong intensity to them that it makes him sound over-the-top sometimes.

I'm from UK so all the American accents sounded fine to me, I recognise the difference between the different regions but I wouldn't be able to say if they were good or not, to me they were all good.

However, as I am from the UK, the moment Wendy came on the screen I was covering my ears at the terrible Hollywood version of Irish accent that was coming out of her mouth. It's the usual hollywood Irish accent that is so badly used by so many American actors in so many films. I think if the American audience got a taste of a real Irish accent they'd probably think the person was dutch, they've gotten so used to this "off the shelf" version.

Huntoon had an amazing accent until he said "Out" in a Canadian-Northern like way when yelling at Virgillia; "I want them said OOOUUUU-T (can not type it =P) did you let Grady escape Miss.Hazard?"


Orry and Brett had really good ones, I'd throw George and Constance in that category also, Huntoon is still up there though since that was only one word ;)


Worst would be Bent.

Phillip Casnoff had the worst accent to my ears. Unless his character came from a part of Georgia that I've never visited. And Lesley-Ann Down's accent appeared to come and go.






"Joey, have you ever been in a Turkish prison?"

Not all Southern accents are the same. I have heard Southerners who talk like Phillip Casnoff. He sounded like he was from New Orleans.