Film

I watched Wimbledon at the weekend. I should probably say ‘endured’ or ‘was repulsed by’, thanks to the concept of Kirsten Dunst pairing with Paul Bettany – something only slightly less off-putting than Catherine Zeta with Sean Connery in Entrapment. But watched is the word I shall use for the moment.

Only, I’ve see a few Kirsten Dunst movies in my time and for the first time, I noticed something odd about her.

She has an American accent.

When did that happen? Isn’t she English? In fact, I hadn’t noticed her having any kind of accent at all until now.

Anyway, it occurs to me she’s probably always had an American accent and I am merely party to an extremely odd phenomenon, one perhaps you might share, too.

It’s the idea – no, not even idea, but gradual acclimatisation to American accents so that they become the default accents for movies.

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