Some “British dialect” training which should be mandatory for all American actors.
A West End Whinger
Andrew is on sabbatical but Phil is soldiering on to help you decide between the Merlot and the Marlowe and generally putting London's West End theatre to rights
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Those famous WEW pap shots
A West End Whinger 
Friday 11 June 2010 at 10:59 am
I don’t think British people pronounce “coffee” like that…..I don’t think anyone pronounces “coffee” like that!
Friday 11 June 2010 at 12:31 pm
Hilarious!
Friday 11 June 2010 at 12:51 pm
She seems to want to roam the whole of England and its accents in one single sentence.
Friday 11 June 2010 at 2:51 pm
I’m guessing she also advised Meera Syal on her accent for Shirley Valentine!
Friday 11 June 2010 at 2:54 pm
Thanks for cheering up my afternoon. She’s obviously never been here.
Friday 11 June 2010 at 2:57 pm
That is hilarious! Any minute I was expecting her to say “terribly flat, Norfolk”.
Friday 11 June 2010 at 6:25 pm
Does she do requests?
I’d love to her her having a sing-a-long to Lets All Go Down The Strand, especially if she could do it in what she considers ‘British dress’.
Friday 11 June 2010 at 9:12 pm
Come on, that’s unfair- she’s at the top of her field actually. Taught Dick Van Dyke for Mary Poppins and everything……
Friday 11 June 2010 at 10:53 pm
Oh my. I imagine the dawg in the fawg bit is exactly how the Queen would say it if the corgis were caught out in adverse weather conditions… So, you know, quite accurate.
Saturday 12 June 2010 at 2:47 pm
Don’t you think it would have been fair to give some credit to the Graham Norton Show where this was seen several weeks ago?
Sunday 13 June 2010 at 7:07 am
You have the advantage of us there David as neither of us watches Mr Norton’s show. Happy nevertheless to acknowledge the circumstances under which it came to our attention: Nick Holmes posted it on his Facebook wall. He got it from Josie Walker. How she came across it we have no idea.
Wednesday 16 June 2010 at 6:43 am
The who?
Sunday 13 June 2010 at 11:16 am
Not just for American actors. I’ve been pronouncing English incorrectly all these years it seems.
Tuesday 15 June 2010 at 10:45 am
This would explain so many American actors dreadful attempts at an English Accent…..
Wednesday 16 June 2010 at 6:42 am
How come she only uses her “accent” on half of the words in her sentences? And am I totally confused or is she using a minimum of two different accents in each sentence, sometimes five (including American)?
Wednesday 23 June 2010 at 8:29 am
What the fark!
Wednesday 7 July 2010 at 10:29 am
Well it’s definitely not a British accent as that doesn’t exist. I guess all you people are talking about an English accent that she is trying to mimic. And very strange it is too, though there are many strange English accents so who knows whether it is good enough or not ? As for dialect, that seems to be presupposing that American English is the main language of which the English accent is a dialect. Even stranger. Even the Scots would not try that one.