The doctors said no. Parker also phoned a dialect expert at Trinity University, in San Antonio, who told him that, even if someone had been held in captivity for three years, he would quickly regain his native accent.
Cast out, the pampered brahmin becomes a street urchin in Agra, and is rejected by his "own kind", the "half-and-half" Anglo-Indians, for whom his native accent is too thick.
"He would say to his friends, 'Well, she can't help it; that's the way people talk in England.' " Years later, Mr. Cloud spent a six-month internship in England's House of Parliament and became so adept at his parents' native accent that when they got calls from a mysterious Englishman offering them a great deal on Westminster Abbey, it took them a moment to realize it was Geoffrey.
"I'm always trying to find what's the truth in this moment," says Rhys, clad in a chambray shirt and cargo pants, an inconspicuously cool ensemble that would be a great disguise for a spy hiding out in Brooklyn — though his rolling native accent, so thoroughly masked in "The Americans," would be a dead giveaway.
On meeting him, Barrowman tried out the character using his native Scottish accent, his normal American accent, and an English accent; Davies decided it "made it bigger if it was an American accent".
For whatever reason, though, we weren't ready for each other yet". "Serendipity" is Beckinsale's first major American release in which she speaks in her native accent.
"I know you know," she said he told her in his native British accent.
"Is it so important that he brush his teeth?" asked Dr. Brazelton, his native Texas accent still strong.
"Yeah... a fair bit," he answers in a measured, thoughtful way, a hint of his native Boston accent flattening out his speech.
Traces of his native Bronx accent give way to the lilt of patois as he talks about his early experiences at St .Patrick's parish here.
"I'm very proud of this book because I followed my intuition," he said, speaking with the clipped inflections of his native Swiss accent.
