It probably helps that: 1 we have lots of US dramas & movies on Brit tv, 2 Brit acting schools do lots of teaching of accents.
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Replying to @xa329 @pookleblinky
I remember Hugh Laurie was interviewed about this re: House and said Brits are pickier about accents too
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bc in the UK accents are an extremely powerful class signifier to a degree not really true here
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hence Shaw writing Henry Higgins as able to deduce someone's life story from their accent
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it's priming too, Brits who knew Laurie as Bertie Wooster heard House's accent as "fake" but Americans didn't
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fwiw I think Americans are just unused to hearing badly faked American accents bc we get the cream of the crop here
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you can hear a lot of bad American accents on British TV
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(and for me it always takes a second to figure out why the person sounds strange)
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there's Hugo Weaving's famously weird R's as Agent Smith (which worked for the character)
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those Rs are a challenge, it's why Brit actors seem to gravitate toward really exaggerated non-rhotic American accents
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like whatever the hell Aussie actress Yael Stone is doing on OitNB
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(I mean it works, I guess the char just apparently spent her childhood traveling between Boston and NY every month)
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