Ep4...No Javier this week
I'm glad she has met up with him again
7.5/10 fo the episode
Okay maybe I'm tripping but didn't TNT air "Your Mama Had a Hard Night" after running the first three episodes already? I am certain I have seen it already!
shareYes. Last week--here in New York, anyway--the TV info said "a peek at next week's episode" but it was more than a peek--it was the entire episode 4. Odd. But I watched it again last night.
shareIndeed: same in DC area. TNT must be trying to keep interest in the show -- which I think is great -- but I wish the 11/29 show would have been episode 5.
Have you heard how Michelle Dockery actually speaks: heavy English accept which there is no trace of with her slightly Southern definitely American accent.
She is the new Maggie Siff (Mad Men/Sons of Anarchy) my favorite actress besides Sarah Paulson.
I don't hear the trace of Southern in her American accent (other than when Letty was in disguise with Javier and had that heavy drawl), which is slightly distracting to me since she's supposed to be born and raised in NC and a lot of the local actors they're using have that accent. My take as a character choice is that she purposefully speaks with a more generic American accent as it's better for someone who's a con artist and needs to blend in anywhere, and kind of trained herself to lose it and sound more proper. In actuality, I think it's probably just easier for Michelle as opposed to a subtle Southern drawl. I've noticed a lot of Brits just go full on Scarlet O'Hara when doing 'Southern' regardless of the area, and Americans go full on Mary Poppins when doing 'English' regardless of the area lol.
Love Sarah Paulson too BTW!
I don't think the choice of accent has to do with what is easier for Michelle Dockery since she has shown an ability to do a more Southern accent when she played the character with the blonde wig. Both that more Southern accent and a more generic American accent are not her accent, which when she talks in interviews and such is a basic upper middle class English accent. But even that is not the accent she used when playing Lady Mary on Downton Abbey. In other words I think she has a real facility with different shades of accents, and so I think the choice here was as you said better for someone who is playing cons all the time. It blends in, and is therefore a logical choice for Letty's character.
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