Eric Bana’s Boleyn Girls

other actors (and picky viewers like myself) care about accents. if you’re an actor who takes your career seriously (as opposed to just wanting to be famous a la Paris Hilton) you need to be able to play a variety of roles, not just play yourself all the time, and accents are a huge (and basic) part of that. when actors can’t pull off an accent it’s because they either didn’t put in the work to learn it properly or they don’t have a talent for it. either case is a red flag that the actor didn’t get the part for the right reasons (ie looks & hype over talent). if you can’t get it, then you’ll never be convincing in the part no matter how emotional/passionate/dramatic you get in a scene.

everyday people with low standards might not know or care if the accents are bad as long as the girls look pretty or whatever, but they will most certainly be judged by their peers. i like both girls but they’ve both done patchy accent work in the past