In defense of bad movie accents

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🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 18 minutes

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We can all think of a bad movie accent. There's Lady Gaga in House of Gucci, Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black, or Emma Watson in The Bling Ring. A bad accent takes you out of a movie, right? Well, Brittany sits down with New York Times columnist Kyle Buchanan who thinks a bad accent actually pulls you into a movie. Brittany and Kyle breakdown his theory and play a special game of "Where IS she from?"

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0:15.3	You're listening to it's been a minute from NPR.
0:20.6	I'm Brittany Luce.
0:22.4	You know, every once in a while, I read a headline that makes me so mad.
0:27.0	I have to click it immediately.
0:28.8	And that happened the other day.
0:30.3	When my producer set me an article from The New York Times titled,
0:34.0	there's no such thing as a bad movie accent.
0:41.1	That can't be true.
0:42.2	He must be tripping.
0:45.0	It got me so worked up that I had to call up the author, Kyle Buchanan,
0:49.6	Kyle with a headline like that.
0:51.2	I feel like you're just inviting I.R.
0:53.4	You're like, you're just trying to make people mad.
0:55.0	Oh yeah, I know what I was getting into here.
0:57.5	And actually, I think the fun of posing that idea and titling the article that
1:03.6	is that immediately in your head, you think, well, that can't be true.
1:06.4	I'm thinking of this bad accent or this bad accent or this actor who couldn't
1:10.4	do that accent.
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