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[cleolinda]

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[madeline_may]

*sob* MY BOMB SHELTER ISN'T READY YET, DAMMIT!

PS: Hey Cleo, were you aware that Rob tried out for True Blood?

[cleolinda]

WHY ARE MY WORLDS COLLIDING?

(What the hell part did he try out for? He's way too young for Bill.)

[door]

I like to think he tried out for Jason. Can you even IMAGINE?

[cleolinda]

OH MY SWEET LORD JESUS.

(HIS FAVORITE SHOW IS TYRA, THAT IS SO AWESOME.)

[madeline_may]

WHY AM I WISHING SO HARD THAT THIS HAPPENED?!

(Maybe it's because a small, shameful part of me loves Jason Stackhouse like, whoa. What?! DON'T JUDGE ME.)

[cleolinda]

I'm just thinking about how Ryan Kwanten spends half of every episode naked and humping someone. Of course, if he'd gotten Jason instead of the Twilight part, he wouldn't have the Twilight fans freaking out over it, so I guess it would have worked out all right.

I'm afraid of what his Southern/Louisiana accent would have sounded like, though. They're not easy to do well no matter where you're from, and the ones actually on the show are hit and miss.

[madeline_may]

I'm just thinking about how Ryan Kwanten spends half of every episode naked and humping someone.

*eyes glaze over*

I'm afraid of what his Southern/Louisiana accent would have sounded like, though. They're not easy to do well no matter where you're from, and the ones actually on the show are hit and miss.

I honestly wonder about this every time I watch the show. Who exactly is the most accurate and innacurate? I have no real basis for comparison, considering all I ever hear of that accent comes from television and the big screen.

[cleolinda]

Well, I'm from Alabama, not Louisiana, and Louisiana is kind of its own thing. But the guy who plays Rene sounds fantastic to me--I love trying to transcribe his lines phonetically. And I was shocked to find out that Ryan Kwanten is--what, Australian? Like, that genuinely blew my mind. Sam Trammell is pretty good (he may have grown up in the South? I read something somewhere?), although "chere" sounded really weird in the first couple of episodes to me. There may be no convincing way to say it if you're not actually Cajun. Stephen Moyer's is reasonably good--he has moments where he sounds like he's trying way too hard (SUCKY IS MAHN), although maybe he's trying to do an Old South/Civil War-era kind of thing. He's settled into it a bit better as the season's gone on. Anna Paquin's gets a little annoying, but I'm starting to think it's not that it's a bad Southern accent as it is just Sookie being annoying now and then. Rutina Wesley is--well, she's consistent, whatever it is she's doing. There's a point where you stop hearing the

[madeline_may]

Ryan Kwanten is Australian? Wow... I'm suitably impressed.

There's a point where you stop hearing the accent as something the actor's doing wrong or right and just as the way the character talks. Like "Sookie's annoying sometimes" or "Bill is old-fashioned and really earnest" or "Tara is sassy."

I hadn't realized how true that was until last night, because lordy, was Sookie ever driving me crazy.

[visceralvamp]

..I second the "Ryan Kwanten is Australian?" Dear god. PROPS TO HIM.

Sometimes Moyer sounds a lot, a lot, like Gary Oldman in "The Fifth Element." And I wonder if it's because they're both Brits being Southern, or something. Of course, if you haven't seen the movie, it doesn't really help.

..actually, Kenneth Branagh in "Wild, Wild West" sounds like them too.

[ninepointfivemm]

Gary can get away with it, since he's an alien villain. His accent is like a combination of all Southern accents. Drives me up a wall, but at least the "that's mah fayvrit" scene makes me laugh. And I think part of it is his accent when DESCRIBING the gun.

[door]

I hope he totally fanboys over her when he's on her show. That would be beyond awesome.