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I came upon this page because, watching John Adams, I was bewildered by the characters' accents. My first thought was : how could there have been so many Irishmen in Boston before 1848 ? Perhaps actors find the Irish accent the easiest to imitate. Samuel Adams definitely has been given an Irish accent and so has James Dickinson (despite the language coach's claims to have reproduced his Englishness). I actually looked up people's biographies - maybe Samuel Adams had lived in Ireland, I thought - how could he have such a different accent from his brother John. When you mentioned that the language coach for the series had also worked on "The New World", I had an idea. Maybe she just likes Irish accents (so do I), because one unbearable thing in the film (apart from Colin Farrell's acting) was that he did nothing to move away from his Irish brogue. A beautiful accent, I insist, but John Smith was from Lincolnshire. Another place.
May 19, 2008, 3:24:00 PM
Posted to Accents in John Adams