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I think she's really cool and everything, but...


Her "American" accent is so distracting to me sometimes. She cannot fake it to save her life.

She's been playing Americans for almost 3 years and the accent hasn't gotten any better. I hear her slip almost every time she speaks and it takes me out of the show for a moment.

Nothing against her. I like her as an actress, it's just a shame that she can't pull off a convincing American accent like most Australian actors can.

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She cannot fake it to save her life.

Is she really not American? I just always assumed she was.

(So obviously she can fake an American accent for TV, and by extension she can probably do it to save her life too.)

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I completely agree with the OP. She's very pretty and she would maybe be an okay actress, but the fact that she cannot do a good American accent at all makes her so distracting that I just have a hard time watching or enjoying her scenes on anything she's in.

Caulfield, I'm just a bit curious to know if you're from America? If you're not that could be why you don't notice her accent being off? Just curious; I hope you won't take offense by my question.

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