#not gonna comment on Janelle Monae's accent cuz she also has family from Mississippi and I think Alabama?

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sooo somewhat controversial opinion but like...Daniel Craig’s Southern accent in the Knives Out movies really ain’t that bad.

especially compared to other ‘Hollywood Southern’ accents. (Think Foghorn Leghorn, like...a lot of the accents in Cold Mountain). the dude based his accent on Shelby Foote, a Civil War historian from the Mississippi Delta. and he gets the rhythm down pretty well? Basing this in part on having a whole lotta family from Mississippi (my mom’s from there and most of my cousins still live there) - this dude also incorporates pretty niche things like his pronunciation of poetry - older Mississippians tend to say something close to ‘poi-etry.’

Like I know it’s thick as all get-out and definitely doesn’t sound as natural as Shelby Foote’s own way of talking but Daniel Craig really went there in terms of aiming for regional specificity and avoiding the whole ‘it just h-ain’t been the same since the WA-UH’ Hollywood I ain’t never met nobody that actually speaks like that accent. Anyway here’s a section from an interview with Shelby Foote in case y’all wanna hear the OG accent: