A really irritating thing when you're watching a film is if somebody's accent isn't bang-on - it distracts you from getting into the story because you're thinking: 'Where are they from?'
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Accents can be a great tool to tell a story - but if you do it wrong, it pulls you right out of the movie.
When I travel round the country, people can't place my accent; if there's someone in the audience, they'll be like, 'You're from Philadelphia', but everyone else will say, 'Where are you from, California?' I get England sometimes - bizarre!
I'm in four different films this year, and I have four different accents. I sound different in every film. You have to love a character to play it well, and change in my work is what I want.
Personally, just as an actor, I love accents; they're fun.
Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.
Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys.
I do accents. Sometimes when I've had a few drinks, I speak in different accents all night long, and then at the end of an evening someone will say to me, 'Seriously, where are you from?'
I think American audiences are open to people with accents and different nationalities being on the screen.
In Italy, it is difficult to see a film in the original language because the voice actors here are a mafia.
I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
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