Ancient History, but I have to ask: Scout & Jem in “To Kill A Mockingbird”.
Please tell me they were actual (or very close to it).
Lie to me if you must (I Love that movie!)
They’re real Southerners. Mary Badham (Scout) was born in Birmingham Alabama. Phillip Alford (Jem) was born in Gadsden Alabama.
Tommy Lee Jones in almost all his movies. But then he’s from Texas. He also speaks fluent Spanish.
Unfortunately, TLJ sounded like a Texan even when he played Thaddeus Stevens, a Vermont-born Congressman from Pennsylvania, in Lincoln.
Calleigh Duquesne from CSI Miami, I love her accent.
I’ve also been watching Wings and Helen has a great accent, but that is because the actress is actually from Texas
Crystal and her sister Robyn were friends of mine in college and yes, that’s just the way they really talk.
Actually it’s less surprising than you might think. There used to be a show on movie making years ago on Nickelodeon when I was a kid, and they had a segment once on voice/accent coaching, and in the segment, they took an Englishman and by telling him how to pronounce a few vowels (I think) differently, they made him sound like he was straight off some plantation in rural Alabama. They said that those two accents are pretty close, but that others are harder to get down.
Yeah, but Robert Duvall’s accent was better; he really did sound a whole lot like old Central Texas men actually sound. Caine’s accent was kind of… funky.
The one I came to post. She was amazing.
She may have bit of a southern accent but CSI Miami you got alot of Spanish accent too.
It is hardly southern TV show , it very mixed.
Oh, that’s a Southern accent, and a very good one. A Texas accent is very much a Southern accent. You can hear that Carla Jean Moss accent in north Georgia and Tennessee, and Alabama, too, not only in Texas. I knew Kelly Macdonald was Scottish, and I was amazed by her spot-on Southern accent.