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Kennedy tells us the tendency isn\u2019t limited to period costume dramas.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is widely known that the acting industry is dominated by the middle and upper classes,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
In 2024, the Sutton Trust found<\/a> that people from working-class backgrounds were four times less likely than their middle-class peers to work in any creative industry.<\/p>\n BAFTA-nominated actors are five times more likely<\/a> to have gone to private school than the general public.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWhile this is an issue in itself,\u201d Kennedy continued, \u201cit also heavily influences how history gets portrayed on screen.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve been sold this idea that everyone in the past was super polished and polite, and we\u2019ve equated that with the classic RP [received pronunciation] accent.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n That\u2019s not to say you can\u2019t change up voices, actors, stories, or perspectives, especially in looser adaptations like\u00a0Bridget Jones<\/em><\/a> (expertly nicked from<\/a> Pride And Prejudice<\/em><\/a>)\u00a0\u2013 but would-be \u201cfaithful\u201d adaptations tend to sound distractingly, and sometimes inaccurately, similar.<\/p>\n Take, the historian says, the 2022 film Emily<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThe Bront\u00ebs are portrayed with soft-spoken middle-class voices, even though they most likely would\u2019ve had an Irish or at least an Irish\/Yorkshire mixed accent as their father was Irish,\u201d she shares.<\/p>\n Indeed, Charlotte Bront\u00eb\u2019s friend Mary Taylor said the author<\/a> \u201cspoke with a strong Irish accent,\u201d while the British Film Institute<\/a> admits star Emma Mackey<\/a>\u2019s \u201cYorkshire accent sporadically wanders down the M1\u2033 in the movie.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of the time\u201d in period dramas, \u201cthe working-class accent has been attributed to comic relief, or a character who has had a troubled life,\u201d she tells HuffPost UK.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen everyone in a period drama speaks the same, you\u2019re not just losing historical accuracy, you\u2019re also reinforcing the idea that the only \u2018serious\u2019 or \u2018worthy\u2019 people in history were the ones who \u2018spoke properly.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s not an isolated trend\u00a0 Kennedy tells us the tendency isn\u2019t limited to period costume dramas. \u201cIt is widely known that the acting industry is dominated by the middle and upper classes,\u201d she says. In 2024, the Sutton Trust found that people from working-class backgrounds were four times less likely than their middle-class peers to […] More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"reaction":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-8522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8522"},{"taxonomy":"reaction","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reaction?post=8522"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umyonews.site\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=8522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The Bront\u00ebs have fallen victim to the issue, too, Kennedy says\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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