Patrick wrote:I don't know as child-actors go, I thought they were pretty good. Trevor Einhorn was definitely better than his predecessor, who acted like he was reading the phone book. The one who played Eve in Halloween was rather bland. Doctor Phil keeps talking like he's addressing a crowd. Other than that they were all pretty good, even the ones who's characters I didn't like.
CatNamedRudy wrote:Patrick wrote:I don't know as child-actors go, I thought they were pretty good. Trevor Einhorn was definitely better than his predecessor, who acted like he was reading the phone book. The one who played Eve in Halloween was rather bland. Doctor Phil keeps talking like he's addressing a crowd. Other than that they were all pretty good, even the ones who's characters I didn't like.
The one who played Eve in Halloween was Kelsey's real life wife at the time. She was awful. And Dr. Phil was pretty awful too. Bill Gates couldn't act his way out of a wet paper bag.
Tranquilox wrote:Annie was pretty bad in Ski Lodge, mainly because of the bad accent, aswell as Clive for the same reason
Patrick wrote:Tranquilox wrote:Annie was pretty bad in Ski Lodge, mainly because of the bad accent, aswell as Clive for the same reason
So she isn't really English? Do you think she's American?
CatNamedRudy wrote:Patrick wrote:Tranquilox wrote:Annie was pretty bad in Ski Lodge, mainly because of the bad accent, aswell as Clive for the same reason
So she isn't really English? Do you think she's American?
Yep. She's American. And she looked much better as Annie than she does in her IMDb picture!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0483701/
Tranquilox wrote:The actress, Cynthia Lamontagne who played her is American, the accent is badly put-on
Moon-Crane wrote:Yep, sounds perfectly manc enough to me. Certainly good enough as a north-west accent in general. And even more certainly for a US show's needs.
Frasiertime wrote:Daphne's accent sounded a little "put on" to me in the early episodes, perhaps to emphasize her how quirky she was. It seemed toned down later. Maybe an opinion of her accent depends on which episodes a person is watching. I'm not from England, so I can't really judge.
I thought Simon's accent sounded so bad because he was supposed to be drunk all the time and the "drunken accent" bit just didn't come out right. I thought his character would have been less annoying if the accent was toned down quite a bit and he didn't walk so weird all the time.
PistolPoet wrote:Moon-Crane wrote:Yep, sounds perfectly manc enough to me. Certainly good enough as a north-west accent in general. And even more certainly for a US show's needs.
It's really interesting to see how different people have different opinions about her accent. I had an English friend aho was a linguist and he said her accent was laughable, but then again he may have been judging her too harshly. Over the years I've seen people say it's bad, just off the mark, decent and good. Being a foreigner, I can't tell myself, but I absolutely agree it's quite good for Americans, most of whom have probably never (or rarely enough) heard a Mancunian accent.
Forever Jung wrote:PistolPoet wrote:Moon-Crane wrote:Yep, sounds perfectly manc enough to me. Certainly good enough as a north-west accent in general. And even more certainly for a US show's needs.
It's really interesting to see how different people have different opinions about her accent. I had an English friend aho was a linguist and he said her accent was laughable, but then again he may have been judging her too harshly. Over the years I've seen people say it's bad, just off the mark, decent and good. Being a foreigner, I can't tell myself, but I absolutely agree it's quite good for Americans, most of whom have probably never (or rarely enough) heard a Mancunian accent.
I certainly don't think it's "laughable"
As a native of the North West of England (Manchester is 33.3 miles away from Liverpool according to the RAC) I don't think there is anything wrong with her accent at all.
I wouldn't think it was odd if I heard an accent like that while I was out and about.
As has been pointed out, her accent may have been stronger earlier to make her appear quirkier, or it could be that living in America for so many years has softened it a bit.
Forever Jung wrote: I certainly don't think it's "laughable"
As a native of the North West of England (Manchester is 33.3 miles away from Liverpool according to the RAC) I don't think there is anything wrong with her accent at all.
I wouldn't think it was odd if I heard an accent like that while I was out and about.
Moon-Crane wrote:I reckon a UK linguist would say i effect a fake geordie accent. But i am originally from Tyneside, just with a bastardised version of the accent from living in other parts of the country. Everyone else in the UK would simply hear me as a geordie but the 'natives' would say i don't have the accent at all. It's not something i get hung up about.
PistolPoet wrote:My friend was a phonetician
Forever Jung wrote:PistolPoet wrote:My friend was a phonetician
I don't know why working in a call center qualifies him to judge on how well the accent was done
I've been told by people from outside of Liverpool they can tell i'm from Liverpool, but i've had a lot of people in Liverpool ask me where i'm from. Work that one out
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