The original post: /r/television by /u/Southern_Schedule466 on 2024-06-24 18:34:21.
Like I know that for historical figures or many IP-based stories, actors need to have a particular accent. But Chernobyl worked perfectly with actors using their natural accents. I also watched HBO’s The Undoing (don’t watch it) and Hugh Grant has his natural British accent and it is easily explained why in-universe. There is some very bad accent work in Apple TV’s Silo and Peacock’s Apples Never Fall.
I have read that for movies it is harder to get distribution around the world if the actors don’t use American accents and instead use, say, British or Australian ones. I watched a movie from about 15 years ago filmed outside the US where every character was American with an American accent and the movie is set in America for that very reason according to the commentary. Is that the case for tv shows as well when production companies are trying to sell distribution rights for a show to streaming services around the world?
I would think with the international popularity of Game of Thrones, House of the Dragon, Downton Abbey, Sex Education, The Crown etc and the increasing popularity of non-English language shows on Netflix that it would be more acceptable for actors to act in their native accents rather than put on (often bad) American accents.