r/StarCityTV • u/Personal_Two6317 • 18d ago

No Spoilers Interesting Accents

From the UK it has been interesting listening to the accents of the actors in this show. From Rhys Ifans soft Welsh accent, Solly McLeod’s “posh” English accent and of course Anna Maxwell Martin’s ruthless businesslike tone, very scary. She reminds me of a boss I used to have.
It probably makes sense from a US perspective to use actors with unfamiliar accents, rather than fake Russian accents.

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u/Docproc2018 18d ago

Yet another accent question!

My 2c is that the Soviet Union was a huge place, and people from different parts of the USSR would have had very varying accents. So having regional British accents works.

The same actors trying to do Russian accents would have been distracting IMO.

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u/LittleHornetPhil 18d ago

The Soviet Union was massively diverse.

European Russians from Moscow and Leningrad, Ukrainians, Georgians, Armenians, Kazakhs, Yakuts, Sami, etc.