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Why the Bad Accents?

posted 11 years ago by delmoki
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Everyone in this should have had a proper New Zealand accent, except for the Austrian guy. I realize that many of the actors were Australian, but I just don't get why their accents were so bad. Aussie actors come to America and do impeccable American accents all the time. Why couldn't these people pull off New Zealand accents?

And why was Matt Scottish? There was absolutely no explanation given for this.

[–] centinel822 9 years ago

This all sounds a bit provincial. I am a Southern American and our dialect is routinely slaughtered in TV and movies in our own country. Ironically, Holly Hunter is one of the few women with an honest-to-god Southern accent (which is an "American accent"). Let it go.

[–] erikaridpath 9 years ago

The awful accents were the LEAST off this show's problems! 