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McShane too was no obvious bet. A working actor since age 17, he was a minor TV star in Britain and little known in the U.S. His best-known role here was as another baddie, in the 2000 indie crime movie Sexy Beast. "The question was how his [Mancunian] accent would play in such a quintessentially American role," says HBO entertainment president Carolyn Strauss. But, says creator David Milch, McShane dropped the accent and inhabited the role so thoroughly that he overcame Milch's doubts...
...veritable academic superstar, Appiah showed up at the Book Store last Thursday—a stone’s throw from his former office, in an unpretentious navy-blue suit, with tortoise shell glasses perched on the end of his nose. He spoke carefully and delicately, with an accent that reflected his own complex identity—Appiah would draw out the “ir” in circle as an Englishman, but would pronounce the “er” in “mother” in the American...
...veritable academic superstar, Appiah showed up at the Book Store last Thursday—a stone’s throw from his former office, in an unpretentious navy-blue suit, with tortoise shell glasses perched on the end of his nose. He spoke carefully and delicately, with an accent that reflected his own complex identity—Appiah would draw out the “ir” in circle as an Englishman, but would pronounce the “er” in “mother” in the American...
...been translated into 30 languages, and two of her books have been made into films. Isaacs allows that her success has brought some changes. "The lifestyle got better and offered enormous opportunities, including not doing my own laundry," she says. But Isaacs, who still has an unmistakable New York accent, has stayed put on Long Island. "I see everything out there," she confides...
...says Vega, "the language issue was hardly a problem in the film. I speak mostly Spanish with a Mexican accent. That helps the story with all the idiomatic misunderstandings." In fact, the only real surprise Vega found in Hollywood was the scale of things. "In front of the camera, it's the same," she says. "The difference is in the surroundings. In America, for every single thing there are many more people involved. But it doesn't intimidate me; it makes me feel more supported, more protected...