Emma Watson Accent

It’s been five years since Emma Watson last raised a wand as Hermione Granger, but it’s still been a strange journey to see her fully evolve her post-

Persona as international feminist pixie dream girl and star of films that don’t require her to pretend to see CGI dragons. Part of that evolution has been crossing the classic hurdle of any English actor who wants to be bankable in big Hollywood films: perfecting an American accent.

Hugh Laurie did it. Benedict Cumberbatch did it to get those big Marvel bucks. Jude Law, bless his soul, always tries. It’s something of a rite of passage, an inevitability that wannabe actors across the Atlantic learn early in their training (that’s part of the reason Brits are markedly better at going American than we are at trying to sound posh: they know it’s something they’re almost definitely going to need, and so they practice).

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, in which she used a more specific, valley girl Calabasas accent a la Kardashian. And now she’s at it again, alongside Tom Hanks in

Dystopian future. (It should be noted that she’s also starring with fellow Brit Karen Gillan, who won my heart with her pretty decent American accent in the short-lived but delightful TV show, Selfie.)

Something about her answers seemed… pinched? Strange? It’s possible that I’m just so used to a beautiful English accent coming out of her gorgeous face that hearing our flat ugly American syllables seems a little off. Like taking a sip of

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But, I’m no expert. After all, I’m biased against her because she and I overlapped two years at college and I never got to become her friend. And so I reached out to an unbiased source,  Erik Singer—professional dialect coach and noted expert in analyzing celebrity accents in films—to see if he could enlighten me on whether Emma Watson was actually any good.

“Her accent in The Bling Ring, from what I heard, is flawless. Really excellent work. It’s a very specific accent, of course—what you might call young female LA. But in the trailer, there’s literally nothing I would want to hear differently. Is it broad/’pronounced’? Yes. Do real people speak like that? Yes. Is it appropriate to the role and the film? From what I can tell from the trailer, yes.”

E trailer aren’t enough to accurately gauge, really, how good she does overall.  “That said, it’s good, ” he wrote. “There are tiny things I’d adjust if I were giving her notes on the scene, but overall it’s good. Even leaving the paucity of material aside, we can’t really gauge improvement over time, because it’s a different American accent than she’s using in Bling Ring—much more what’s usually called ‘General’ American (I have problems with this term). One other thing I might add, I suppose, as general background, is that her native oral posture is closer to the posture of the accent she’s using inEmma Watson’s American accent certainly raised more than a few eyebrows on social media, after the Little Women trailer was released yesterday. The British actress, 29, stars as one of the March sisters in Greta Gerwig’s adaptation of the Louisa May Alcott novel. But some people on Twitter hit out at her Stateside impression with one person saying she was “terrorising” the story. Others joked that her US accent was locked up in Azkaban in reference to her Harry Potter fame.

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Many took to the micro-blogging site and criticised Emma’s accent, as one person moaned: “Emma Watson terrorising yet another beloved book adaptation with her American accent.”

A second person said: “Who lied to Emma Watson and told her American accent was good u thought she knew after Perks of Being a Wallflower.”(sic)

While a fourth person added: “Little Women has been my favorite book since I was little and I think the 94 version is lovely. I love all three books in the series and one of the first things I bought for my new house was a framed quote from the book. I’m really scared Emma Watson’s accent is going to ruin it.”

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One person commented: “The LITTLE WOMEN trailer is good and Emma Watson’s American accent is exceedingly fine and everyone needs to go lie down for a quick minute.”

Another person added: “Say what you want about her accent in the Little Women trailer but Emma Watson was phenomenal in The Bling Ring.”

The Harry Potter star will be featured in the latest adaptation of Little Women, alongside Meryl Streep, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, and Saoirse Ronan.

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Set in 1860s New England, the story follows the the journey of four fearless sisters as they battle societal expectations following the American Civil War.

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There have been other television versions of the novel shown from the 1930s to 1970s, with shows airing on the BBC and CBS.

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In the months building up to Little Women’s release, rumours circulated, on Twitter and within Hermione Granger fan circles, that Emma Watson wasn’t very good in it. It was said that some of her scenes had been cut, that test audiences had disliked her American accent, and that she was only in the film in the first place as a last-minute favour to Sony head Amy Pascal. (Emma Stone, director Greta Gerwig’s first choice for the character of Meg March, dropped out.)

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Watson’s relative absence on the Little Women press tour has given further weight to the speculation – specifically a day in the middle of December that saw the majority of the cast speak to press in a London hotel, while Watson was off darting around the city on her own, leaving free copies of Louisa May Alcott’s book near certain London landmarks.

A source told Page Six that Watson had informed Sony Pictures that she would only attend the film’s New York premiere and not commit to any further promotion for the film, leading to (potentially misogynist) speculation that there was a cast feud – or that Watson was unhappy with the film, or her performance in it.

In truth, however, Watson is brilliant in Little Women – just as she has been in a number of films in recent years. But praising her as an actor is often met with cynicism – as if you’re either blinded by residual Hermione love, or you’re generally delusional.

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Watson’s reputation as a not-very-good actor is partly Harry Potter’s fault, with an entire generation growing up watching her, Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint stutter and shriek their way through the halls of Hogwarts. The fact that none of them were particularly good in the early entries of the franchise – chosen less for their acting abilities than for their physical similarities to JK Rowling’s source material – has also stuck around in the cultural consciousness. It’s meant that, even as adults, all three have been unfairly labelled as bad actors – despite having demonstrated their individual range in the nine years since the series ended.

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