Sam's accent - totally wrong

Better getting good acting without the accent than bad acting with it, no?

Samantha
"We're here. We're dead. Get used to it."

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The actress is Lucy-Jo Hudson who is from Leeds. I doubt she was 'unable to tell the difference' and as someone from the North it didn't adversely affect the film at all.

She is from Leeds, and she also used to be in Corrie - a Manchester-set soap - using her natural accent...

... but so what? Not all members of a family talk the same; for all the audience knows, the character could have lived in Leeds with an aunt when she was younger... or the whole family could've moved there for a time, lost the accent when they returned, yet she retained hers? We don't know much about the character's history, and it wouldn't exactly be the first Yorkshire accent ever to be heard in Manchester!






"I've been turned down more times than the beds at the Holiday Inn; I still try"

No, it's a valid point, and we could make up all sorts of reasons why she "might" have a Leeds accent when we know really it's just a lazy bit of casting or lack of effort by the actress. When we complain about Germans speaking to each other in English with German accents, we don't say "Well maybe they lived with their aunts...", we just say it's stupid.

I'm glad someone mentioned Coronation Street because the range of accents in the Rover's Return is beyond belief. Over the years there have been many, many Yorkshire accents, without anyone ever mentioning "when I lived in Blubberhouses..."

The OP is right in that a lot of actors and actresses just do an all-purpose "Northern" accent, which is kind of insulting, like American actors and their "Briddish" (Aberden or Cornwall?) accents.


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