Someone needs to tell David Tennant that he was cast in Gracepoint, not Gotham. The Doctor Who vet is currently starring in the American version of his highly acclaimed UK series, Broadchurch, but there is only one problem...His American accent. After the Thursday night premiere of the new mini-series, the internet criticized David Tennant’s American accent, comparing it at parts, to Christian Bale’s Batman voice. The criticism stings a little worse, when you consider that he has done an American accent before, and had a dialect coach on set.
Before the criticism about David Tennant’s American accent hit the internet, the actor sat down with Vulture where he laid out his experience with an the dialect:
“I have done an American accent before on stage and on television, so it wasn’t completely new to me. But it’s something you apply yourself to and I worked with a lot of really talented dialect coaches. Obviously there are certainly a lot of technical sounds to master; the vowel sounds and the way that some words sound. But you have to find out how it sits in your bones so that you’re not doing a silly voice and it becomes sort of organic to you. It’s also just having an ear for it in the first place so that when you’re practicing it, it just becomes second nature. That’s the ultimate goal.”
Tennant went on to discuss just why it is that you see so many actors from the UK playing Americans:
“We’ve grown up with it of course. American movies and even TV is part of our cultural experience growing up. Having said that, there’s a lot of Americans who manage it the other way around, isn’t there? I guess actors enjoy the challenge of transforming themselves, so we all quite like the notion that we can be taken for something or even simply pass ourselves off.”
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