On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 03:45, Adam Bowie <[email protected]> wrote: > Stephen Moyer (guess what I was watching over the weekend)
I assume you mean "True Blood", and it's funny that you use that as an example, because, to my ear, he and Anna Paquin are both laughably bad at the regional accent. Anywhere that the accent they're going for doesn't match "normal" US English pronunciation has been massively overemphasized, and there are a few vowel sounds that neither of them get entirely right. OTOH, Ryan Kwanten gets both the American and the Louisiana accents down to where he sounds natural, but doesn't sound like a native to me. (He's somewhere between Louisiana and generic American - like someone who grew up elsewhere, moved, and picked up part of the accent but not all of it.) Most of the rest of the cast do pretty well, but some (like Nelsan Ellis) have natural accents that fit the area and sound exactly the same out of character. -- David J. Lynch [email protected] -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
