What do Polish people here think of Meryl's accent?
So, I'm curious... to me, as an American, Meryl was totally convincing as a Polish person.
However... I understand that with most accents that are learned by actors, they're almost never going to sound authentic to the native speakers of those accents.
I'm actually taking dialect lessons right now to learn a Polish accent, and I'm really stressed out about getting it to sound authentic. Obviously, I'd love to do it as well as Meryl. But my dialect coach tells me that it's going to be a "Hollywood Polish accent," something that Americans can understand, and it's not necessarily going to sound good to native Polish people. He told me a story about how one time, years ago, he worked on a film where the actors had to speak with Scottish accents. The film was being filmed in Scotland, and the local Scots were saying, "That is NOT HOW WE TALK!" He told the producer about this, and the producer told him, "Originally, I was using REAL Scottish actors, but the thing was... nobody could understand what the hell they were saying!"
So... an accent can't be TOO PERFECT or else the audience won't be able to understand what the actor is saying.
So, for any Polish people reading this board... what did you guys think of Meryl's accent? Did it sound authentic, or did it sound like a "Hollywood Polish accent?"