A leading lady from the racy Fifty Shades of Grey film, currently shooting a new horror movie in Cornwall, has admitted to finding the local dialect challenging. Marcia Gay Harden revealed she has been diligently practising her Cornish accent for the role but is finding it tough to master.
In a recent chat on CBS The Talk, the American actress teased her new project, describing it as a “magical realism horror film” that promises to be “really fun”, but remained tight-lipped about the details. Harden has been working on her Cornish accent daily, but confessed that the unique vowel pronunciations have been tripping her up.
She explained: “So, first of all, I’ve been having to practise this accent you know, and it’s not an easy accent because it’s Cornwall, so all the vowels are different.”
“So I’ve been practising every day with this guy named Simon. And because we shoot in Cornwall, I can’t tell you the name of the movie, but it’s going to be really fun. And I can’t tell you exactly what it’s about but I will tell you this, my kids said, ‘Mom, why don’t you do a movie that we’d like to see’… they’re like, ‘yeah, do something like a horror film or something’. The next day, I got an offer to do this horror film, sort of a magical realism horror film.”
Reflecting on her attempts to maintain an accent for a role, she recounted the moment she boarded a plane: “Anyway, so I’m trying to do this accent all the time. And I get on the plane to come out there, and I say, ‘Okay, thank you for my seat’ [in accent] and the guy looks at me, and I say, ‘I know, I sound so pretentious right now’,” as reports Cornwall Live.
She went on to add: “Everywhere I go I’ve been doing it, and it’s not easy.”
Separate local reports from Cornwall have spotted Harden filming near Lostwithiel yesterday (November 12), with expectations that the production crew will remain in the county for the forthcoming four weeks.
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