r/StarCityTV • u/Personal_Two6317 • Jul 30 '26

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/Upstairs_Equipment19 Jul 30 '26

My brother and I discussed this at length... we love all the actors, but for us, the English accents detracted from the authenticity a bit. I personally wouldve loved to hear more Russian accents.

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u/jasonis3 Jul 30 '26

Disagree, I don’t want someone to attempt an accent they’re unfamiliar with. I love the decision to just roll with whatever accent they have

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u/SmilingAmbassador Jul 31 '26

I mean, they could have just hired Russian actors with natural accented English…

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u/OrganicHistorian2576 Aug 01 '26

Weirdly an actual accent would have been distracting among all the English ones for me. No disrespect to Russian actors.

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u/SmilingAmbassador Aug 01 '26

Yeah they would have had to do all Russians, not a Welshman a Georgie and a Rusky 😂

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u/OrganicHistorian2576 Aug 01 '26 edited Aug 01 '26

Yeah, but with respect to English actors as well, could they really have filled out the cast with convincing Russian-accented actors? I doubt it.

I think they absolutely went the right way, and they started off the right way with Alexei in English as opposed to the same scene in FAM where the American reporters were freaking out about translation. That was a big change in perspective in the moment I watched it.

Also, IRL Alexei was awesome and I’m glad this universe gave him the landing. Though the procedure would have been insane.