Why Is Emma Watson American Accent So Bad

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 inThe new take on the literary classic by Louisa May Alcott comes from Lady Bird director Greta Gerwig and stars Saoirse Ronan , Emma Watson , Eliza Scanlen, and Florence Pugh as the central March sisters.

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However, despite the adoration pouring out for the footage, including from eager fans of Saoirse Ronan and co-star Timothee Chalamet as Jo March and Theodore Laurie Laurence, respectively, one member of the cast is already being criticised.

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One user wrote: Why is Emma Watson the only British actor who can’t even do the most basic American accent lol cringe at her in this new Little Women. I can only imagine what her marble mouth will do

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Another concurred, saying: The only thing that pisses me off from the Little Women trailer is Emma Watson's accent. Ronan cam perfected hers why cant you GEEEEEEEZ! I have issues w Emma's accent for the longest time

Others were very adamant: the Little Women trailer looks great but please stop casting Emma Watson in anything where she has to do an accent

A fan wrote: As the self-claimed accent expert, @EmmaWatson ‘s accent was fine in the Little Women trailer. Give it a rest ya over sensitive muppets. What u hear is probably just old refinement and not the swill we speak today. At least that’s what I’m going with

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And another agreed: I was expecting to gasp in horror at Emma Watson's accent in the Little Women trailer and then it didn't bother me at all. Perhaps y'all are just mean.

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However, despite the adoration pouring out for the footage, including from eager fans of Saoirse Ronan and co-star Timothee Chalamet as Jo March and Theodore Laurie Laurence, respectively, one member of the cast is already being criticised.

Harry Potter star Emma Watson is coming under fire for her American accent as viewers took to Twitter to rinse her voice as Meg March.

One user wrote: Why is Emma Watson the only British actor who can’t even do the most basic American accent lol cringe at her in this new Little Women. I can only imagine what her marble mouth will do

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Another concurred, saying: The only thing that pisses me off from the Little Women trailer is Emma Watson's accent. Ronan cam perfected hers why cant you GEEEEEEEZ! I have issues w Emma's accent for the longest time

Others were very adamant: the Little Women trailer looks great but please stop casting Emma Watson in anything where she has to do an accent

A fan wrote: As the self-claimed accent expert, @EmmaWatson ‘s accent was fine in the Little Women trailer. Give it a rest ya over sensitive muppets. What u hear is probably just old refinement and not the swill we speak today. At least that’s what I’m going with

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And another agreed: I was expecting to gasp in horror at Emma Watson's accent in the Little Women trailer and then it didn't bother me at all. Perhaps y'all are just mean.

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