as payment for various sins, I've been watching Fear Street. It's a mildly diverting trilogy of movies set around a witches curse. The first is set in 1994, the second in the 1970s, and the final one is set in... 1666. Yep. Because it's all about curses, there's a lot of overlapping of actors between the three movies, some of them playing multiple roles. Fine.
The main thing is, the last movie, set mainly in 1666 has the characters all doing cod-Irish accents and it's really offputting, especially for such stylised shite.
Anyway, accents are hard to get right, even the very best of actors can fail. Here are two:
Robert De Niro in Cape Fear - where he's a Southerner but his accent is just... not good.
and Meryl Streep, in A cry in the dark. Anyone brought up in Australia knows this movie, and also associates Meryl's terrible accent with it, which is why it's so fucked that she's almost universally recognised as one of the finest actors of her generation, not really.
I am finished here, take care of yourselves.
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