Jennifer Ehle and her alter-accents

Oh my gad - gurlfriend!

Wow, huge difference. I suspect the English one was the most fake. According to Wikipedia, "She was raised largely in Asheville, North Carolina."

I like her Mom.

[quote]I suspect the English one was the most fake.

It doesn't sound fake, it's terrific.

How ridiculous to have more than one accent.

Angela Lansbury uses the same accent all the time in real life.

Maybe she spoke with a Brit accent because she was doing a British play and she’s a method actress.

She’s a brilliant actress.

[quote]Maybe she spoke with a Brit accent because she was doing a British play and she’s a method actress.

She spoke with the English accent for years in England and in interviews.

She lived in NC with her British father and American father until she went to drama school in London.

She may be wanting to get more American work now so she is speaking with the American accent.

Rosie confronted her about her accent. She was still using the British one here >

[quote] It doesn't sound fake, it's terrific.

Watching her definitive Pride and Prejudice I assumed she was a British actress. Many Brits can do American accents but rarely can an American convincingly do British.

Of course Gregory Peck came close.

Gillian Anderson is binational and she switches between English and American depending where she is. Her English cadence or inflection seems heavily affected by American English, though.

Longer Gillian-as-Brit clip.

Gillian Anderson and Kim Cattrall are the same.

[quote]Many Brits can do American accents but rarely can an American convincingly do British.

Anne Bancroft did an excellent British accent.

[quote]Gillian Anderson is binational and she switches between English and American depending where she is. Her English cadence or inflection seems heavily affected by American English, though.

Yes.

Ehle's is the most extreme because it sounds so totally natural. In fact her American sounds a little peculiar.

Ehle’s American accent sounds like Sharon Stone.

Meryl Streep can do a convincing British accent.

Careful, R20, the people here will eviscerate you for saying a kind word about Meryl Streep.

[quote]Meryl Streep can do a convincing British accent.

It's hit and miss, quite frankly.

Ehle's knocks her out of the ball park.

She's very talented and has aged very well.

I'm from London. When I was at acting school in NYC I used to teach people how to talk with an English accent. We used to exchange skills. Where Americans go wrong is they sound silly and jumpy when they do the English accent....all that "pip.pip" nonsense. Where the hell does that come from? I used to say - SOUND BORED, even if you're excited.

And here she is winning 7 years later with a different accent.

My mom was from Germany, from Bavaria to be specific. She moved a little northward to study cooking, and developed a Schwabian accent. Mainly because the two dialects are so different, it is hard to understand each other. Bavarians sound TOTALLY different than Schwabians do. My dad was Schwabian. He spoke German with that accent.

When mom would have a phone call with someone from Bavaria, or if we had visiting company from Bavaria, she totally lapsed back into her Bavarian dialect. But as soon as a Schwab came around and the dialect was getting thrown about, she was just as comfortable going back to that

I don't see this as an affectation or putting on airs. It is simply expedient and comfortable.

[quote]I don't see this as an affectation or putting on airs. It is simply expedient and comfortable.

You're not one to judge, you're clearly extremely affected yourself, Miss Mary.

I always wonder with these people "Which accent do they THINK in?"

thyhrty

[quote]I don't see this as an affectation or putting on airs.

No one said it was.

[quote]It is simply expedient and comfortable.

Oh, crap!

Why isn't Ehle working in higher profile projects? She is a brilliant actress and there's always been something so warm and engaging about her.

I completely agree, R31. I wish she was in more stuff.

She should go back to England. She did her best stuff there.

Here she is doing a posh 1940s English accent. Even the English cunts don't bother doing period accents these days.

[quote]She is a brilliant actress and there's always been something so warm and engaging about her.

Not when she does the American accent. It's rather alarming.

r33, what is that from?

Her American accent is FAR from cozy.

[quote][R33], what is that from?

It's from Camomile Lawn. Nick-named Camomile Porn because everyone kept takng their clothes off. Ehle's tits caused quite a storm.

She did a guest role on The Blacklist opposite James Spader a couple of years ago, and was amazing. I haven't seen her in anything since but confess I haven't sought her out so I probably missed several engaging performances.

Camomile Porn

She's lovely in that little Brit film called Bedrooms and Hallways as the fag hag friend of Kevin McKidd and his bf James Purefoy.

Come on baby light my fire!

Who are the actors at r39? Was it a gay storyline?

Obviously Camomile Lawn didn't get a release in the USA for some reason.

No, R43, they're twin brothers sharing HER. Sorry.

Toby Stephens showed his peen, several time, I seem to remember, but I can't find a pic.

Jennifer had a very nice body. It's weird to think Hollywood would consider her obese.

Was the film called Contagion? I loved seeing her outshine all those movie stars in it.

She was really great in that.

Seriously, complaining because actors are good at accents?

This is the kind of shit gays should be discussing, not "the T."

[quote]Seriously, complaining because actors are good at accents?

You have comprehension issues. Clearly.

Quite possibly, r50. I only read the OP. What did I miss?

R51, it’s that she is suffering from Anderson/Barrowman syndrome. Takes on a different accent depending on where she is.

You like us best when we're docile huh, R49.

Love her. When I saw ZERO DARK THIRTY, I was much more engaged with her character than the one played by the overrated Jessica Chastain. But then Ehle is a far better actress.

Plus, Ehle is an excellent stage actress most of the time (she did a bad revival of DESIGN FOR LIVING at the Roundabout and wasn't good, but the two men weren't either).

After the horrific revival of THE HEIRESS, Chastain should retire from the theater for good. She was dreadful.

No, r53. Interesting.

I don't generally prefer English accents to American - but HER English accent is warm and sweet and her American accent is hard and horrible.

Loved her in Pride and Prejudice. Thought she was English at the time. She goes for understated parts in good movies.

In Pride and Prejudice, her tits looked like inflating and deflating ballons as she inhaled and exhaled. Downright bizarre.