What I love about the accent bit here is how it replicates the interactions of their *characters*: Jack Lowden doing his best to match the others but ultimately doing a bit of a shit job at it, and being keenly aware of it all falling apart as he goes: youtu.be/YjKqXfH2OY8?... - ThreadSky

mckelvie.bsky.social • 1 day ago

What I love about the accent bit here is how it replicates the interactions of their *characters*: Jack Lowden doing his best to match the others but ultimately doing a bit of a shit job at it, and being keenly aware of it all falling apart as he goes: https://youtu.be/YjKqXfH2OY8?si=Wfxo-GN4PwXK-XPU

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danwhitehead.net•1 day ago

Love the show, but Lowden's similarity to Young Simon Pegg constantly throws me off and I expect it to turn into Hot Fuzz.

fenrisgames.com•1 day ago

Yes! You've articulated exactly why something about it kept niggling me.

mckelvie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Lowden and Palmer, of course, both famously English.

mckelvie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Palmer?? Pryce!!! Sorry, I've had less than an hour's sleep and my brain went to Geoffrey Palmer.

jearle.uk•1 day ago

And even some of the Cornish would raise their fists at being called English.

taikonaut.bsky.social•1 day ago

And now I’m confused as to why you’re talking about NZs 33rd Prime Minister

dvbishop.com•1 day ago

Never knew Jonathan Pryce was such a good mimic!

mckelvie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Nor me! So good.

thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Kristin Scott Thomas's "Oh, I only do posh, posher, and poshest" quip was pretty great.

mckelvie.bsky.social•1 day ago

I would never in a million years have guessed she was from Cornwall.

thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social•1 day ago

I don't know that I've ever heard a proper Cornish accent, actually. TBF, I do live in southern California.

burntcopper.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bait is the only one i can think of with actual cornish accents. Some of the Poldark extras. Fisherman's Friends has a few okay ones but none of the lead actors are cornish. These days it's mostly 'generic southern english with some very random vowels, heavy on the ks and rs'.

thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hmmm. Poldark is the only one of those I've actually heard of.

burntcopper.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yeah. Cornwall-set films are pretty rare and tend to not leave the uk (aside from a few folk horrors like Straw Dogs and anything by Daphne du Maurier. Oh, and a few Agatha Christies but they only involve posh people and tourists.)

absolutereality.blog•1 day ago

Colbert: give us an American accent

[Lowden having just watched Gone with the Wind twenty times in a row]: I got this

absolutereality.blog•1 day ago

Lowden was in a great small Scottish thriller called Calibre a few years ago, I highly recommend it. It’s on Netflix.

mckelvie.bsky.social•1 day ago

He's in Tornado this month, which I really want to see.

absolutereality.blog•1 day ago

Ohhh yeah I forgot about that. Trailer looks great, what a stacked cast.

burntcopper.bsky.social•1 day ago

I just want to find a cinema showing it.

stuarthoughton.bsky.social•1 day ago

He is really good in The Gold, which is well worth a watch if you haven't seen it

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