Drusilla never DID get any less mockney, but - she's Drusilla. I handwave madly, and forgive her.
I remember back in the day hearing about a British crewmember asking Juliet if she was from some specific county—the implication being that she picked some odd little regional dialect and reproduced it convincingly, while sounding nothing like a generically familiar Brit. Kind of like the Bianca Lawson thing actually, where apparently there are actually people who talk like Rastafarian leprechuans hidden away in some remote Caribbean community.
I always thought Drusilla sounded like some people I'd seen on some PBS special about the more rural counties of England.
There are dozens of accents in England. Derek Jacobi was in some BBC romance, and he sounded nothing like he usually did, very country.
Kind of like the Bianca Lawson thing actually, where apparently there are actually people who talk like Rastafarian leprechuans hidden away in some remote Caribbean community.
::coughbullshitcough::
I always thought Drusilla sounded like some people I'd seen on some PBS special about the more rural counties of England.
Wait, she wasn't supposed to be from London? I mean, the bit with the mines?
In the time I lived there I never heard, onscreen or off, an accent that sounded much like hers. She just sounded off.
There are dozens of accents in England.
Yep.
I remember back in the day hearing about a British crewmember asking Juliet if she was from some specific county—the implication being that she picked some odd little regional dialect and reproduced it convincingly, while sounding nothing like a generically familiar Brit
boggles
I can't think of any county where the accent resembles Drusilla's, though. Nary a one. And I've lived in quite a few different parts of the UK, and know people from plenty of places where I've not lived. So I'm assuming it's a county just next door to the Rastafarian Leprechauns and round the corner from DickVanDykeshire.
...I know I'm being churlish. There are undoubtedly lots of appallingly cringe-inducing Brit attempts at American accents too.
Wait, she wasn't supposed to be from London? I mean, the bit with the mines?
I always thought she was from Romania. And thus her English was not British English but a weird mashup of Romanian and er, something else.
I always thought she was from Romania
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What a fascinating take! I'm tempted to embrace it (although...still doesn't sound like a Romanian accent either...) But generally when they have flashbacks to Romania, they have the locals speaking in Romanian, surely?
I've also seen where SGA fans thought that David Nykl (Radek) was faking his accent.
He's Czech, he was born in Prague and his parents moved their family to Canada when he was toddler. But then he went back to Prague as an adult and worked there.
