Featured Image Credit: TikTok/max_balegde
Topics: Celebrity, Millie Bobby Brown
Gerrard Kaonga
Millie Bobby Brown has been defended by a vocal coach after fans demanded to know why she sometimes sounds British and other times American.
Dialect coach Erik Singer has been doing it for over 15 years and worked with actors across Hollywood. He was most recently responsible for ensuring Austin Butler mastered his Elvis accent for playing...well, Elvis.
After hearing the ongoing complaints and criticisms against Millie, he has spoken out about why her accent isn’t a big deal.
For those who missed it, the Stranger Things star has had to defend herself from critics who say she constantly changes her accent.
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While speaking to Jimmy Fallon on his show at the beginning of the month, Brown spoke about her engagement to Jake Bongiovi and their relationship. Well, some fans were outraged Brown appeared to be losing her British accent.
“Her British accent is barely there anymore😭😭 i know shes been in America for a long time now but omg it used to be SO strong,” one user wrote.
“It almost sounds like she's doing an impersonation of an American accent throughout this interview,” another added.
“She has gone full American. It sounds so weird,” a third commented.
“She seems to dip in and out of it, in this video she goes more into the American side of her accent and in some recent interviews she goes almost completely British sounding,” another added.
Following this, in a TikTok video with Max Balegde, the pair jokingly addressed the backlash.
Millie simply put it down to the fact that when she is around different people she partially imitates their accent. She added that growing up in America, while also having strong roots in the UK, has also impacted how her accent shifts now and again.
Millie was born in Spain, but grew up in the UK before moving across the pond to the States aged eight.
She said: "I come to set, I'm an actor and I adapt and so I want to mimic people!
"I can't help that when I'm around my fiancé, or when I'm around people like Jimmy Fallon, who have a very American accent, I wanna replicate it! And now I'm in England I want to replicate that."
Speaking to TMZ, Singer reinforced this and said that it is perfectly normal for people’s accents to shift slightly when talking to different people.
He added this is particularly true of actors and said the phenomenon is called 'accommodation' or 'conversation convergence'.
“I really wish people would lay off of actors, and most especially that they'd lay off of criticizing people's accents,” he added.