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bullet Posted: 4/15/07 at 9:54am
Originally posted by A-M-K

why do you think it is so much easier for Brits and Australians to do an American accent, and it's not so good the other way around? 
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I don't know about the Australians but I think British actors are more extensively trained in dialects. There's a great clip on the special edition of Dr. Strangelove of Peter Sellers demonstrating one British dialect after another and finally getting to an American accent.
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bullet Posted: 5/20/07 at 12:19pm
A bad accent story:
 
We were doing Much Ado (set in England instead of Italy), and all of my actors except two had good British accents.  one kept sounding Jamaican and the other Indian.  We ended up scrapping the accents altogether.
 
This past week we finished Earnest, and all of my cast were capable of a decent British accent.  I had to coach them on pronunciation of "Bunbury," "Shropshire," and the like; but they did well without tapes.
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