Sometimes I get don’t like it when actors are too good. It’s kind of scary to me, actually; I feel overwhelmed. I don’t know what to do with the knowledge that Tatiana Maslany can play fifty different parts believably. (This will not stop me from proposing to her if we ever meet in person.)
It wasn't until I was in LAX at the Qantas check-in after spending three months in the US and heard the first Australian accents and linguistic tics since I'd been away that I (a) knew I was nearly home, but (b) also appreciated that we're (apparently) not that easy to replicate. I'm not sure why that is, but I've always found it jarring when actors / performers attempt, but are unable to be convincing in the delivery, which is often at the expense of an otherwise excellent performance. Overall I guess it may be a small thing, but accents tend to be distinctive, and if they sound 'not right' then the words that are contained within them will lack their primacy, and their message diminished.
It wasn't until I was in LAX at the Qantas check-in after spending three months in the US and heard the first Australian accents and linguistic tics since I'd been away that I (a) knew I was nearly home, but (b) also appreciated that we're (apparently) not that easy to replicate. I'm not sure why that is, but I've always found it jarring when actors / performers attempt, but are unable to be convincing in the delivery, which is often at the expense of an otherwise excellent performance. Overall I guess it may be a small thing, but accents tend to be distinctive, and if they sound 'not right' then the words that are contained within them will lack their primacy, and their message diminished.