Gillian Anderson’s American accent throws some individuals off
Anderson won for best supporting actress in a TV series for her function as Margaret Thatcher in Netflix’s “The Crown.”
She accepted the award utilizing her American accent which tickled Twitter.
Writer and tradition editor for New Zealand’s “The Spinoff TV” Sam Brooks tweeted “Gillian Anderson picked her American accent for tonight, clearly.”
Anderson was born within the US, and grew up in Puerto Rico and London earlier than returning to the States.
While the American collection “The X Files” made her a star, she has had loads of roles in British productions together with Netflix’s dramedy “Sex Education,” BBC’s “Bleak House” adaptation and the crime drama “The Fall” which was set in Northern Island.
Anderson has lived in London now for years.
Her means to have the ability to swap from an American to a British accent has lengthy fascinated individuals and in 2009 she told British paper “The Telegraph” that “even on the phone my accent will change.”
“Part of me wishes I could control it, but I can’t,” she mentioned. “I just slip into one or the other. When I moved to the States I tried hard to cling on to my British accent because it made me different.’