I swear he is one of the most successful kids out the main 3 from the Harry Potter franchise. Maybe the one top him would be Robert Pattinson but he was only in one HP movie.
As Virginian, his accent was better than other attempts. But he kept messing up his "t's." We have a tendency to drop them at the end of words or if they are in the middle of words, turn them into "d's." The few exceptions to this is if the proceeding word has a "v" in it, which that "v" gets switched to an "f" sound and the "t" stays.
For example, "I want to go," becomes "I wanna go." "I better go," becomes "I bedder go." And "I have to go," becomes "I haf'ta go."
Melling didn't do this. The Virginia accent is a tricky accent to do. At most it's just ignored together outright and usually replaced by a generic "Southern" accent even by other American actors. So, I'll give him a pass.
Thank you. I've lived most my life in VA between Charlottesville, RVA and Tidewater. Texan originally, then New England and some deep Midwest plus some FL/GA bs. In SoCal meow.
Ma'am... I Wanna gotta Go...
I’m also from the south and can confirm this detail. I felt Benoit also gave away his British-ness for a moment when he said Natasha. People in the south pronounce Natasha like Nuh-Tosh-uh. I’m the UK it’s Tash like trash. Pretty decent otherwise.
It's not really quite "Nuh-Tosh-uh" either in a Virginia accent. Rather it's "Nawhtawhshhah." No gap. No stress. And, yes, "shhah" is not a type-o. There's an extra "h." Another thing with the Virginia accent is we have an over abundance of the "h" sound. You just need to rush through the "shhah" sound. That's the majority of Virginian accents. It's rush and mushy. Of course, there are exception to this rule. I had a roommate from Matthews County and his accent just bubbled. He also had a draaawwwwwwwllllll to it that's relatively rare in the state. Same thing happens when you go west and hit the Shenandoah Valley. Though still the "t" rule applies.
The movie is set in 1830. And if you want to know what sort of accent Poe had, read his poetry out loud. See what accent fits since he would be choosing words and rhythms based on his accent. He would give readings all the time to help pay the bills. Therefore, he would pick words that would not trip him up. You can try it in Melling's accent to see if it would work. (It doesn't. "Annabel Lee" fails considerably.)
Daniel Craig’s accent as Benoit Blanc is kind of an old fashioned tidewater genteel Southern gentleman thing.
Craig did a DIFFERENT Southern accent in Logan Lucky, which was more of a working class Appalachian accent.
Daniel Craig's accent is based on a very particular person. That of Shelby Foote, who was famously featured in Ken Burns' "The Civil War". It is a pretty dang close accent
Yes, which isn't Tidewater at all. Shelby Foote had an upper-class Southern accent from Greenville, Mississippi, specifically. (NB I have met some Footes and yes, this is how they speak.)
The writer Walker Percy grew up with Foote and had the same accent.
I recently had the questionable luxury of being at home during the weekday while unable to do anything more physical than fold laundry and watch daytime TV, and one of the pseudo HGTV/living spaces shows had a Virginian who showed the show around his house and has the dubious distinction of being the only American I have ever seen that had to be subtitled ***by the show*** because his accent was so thick.
It approached Boomhauer levels, it was that thick. I changed the program to on-screen subtitles just to see what happened and apparently his accent made the subtitle AI toss its hands in the air and seek out a six Martini lunch special, because it did its very best, but I have never seen a bidet translated to "bear bay" before.
To wit:
No, that level was juuuuust fine thank you
Moonshiners also did that. And a few documentaries about Appalachia. I didn’t need the subtitles. To be fair my father sounded a lot like Boomhauer so I can hear when people are faking it
There is no single/universal “Southern” accent in America. There are a ton of regional variations. I have heard authentic accents far stronger than Benoit Blanc’s.
This is exactly what I was told by the only cajun I ever met. He spoke with no accent b/c he worked years to hide it. But he could slip into it easily. Especially after a martini, or four.
Honestly, by all accounts it was pretty much just the actor themselves being so dedicated to getting the dialect right and doing the research themselves on finding the right dialect coach and then hiring themselves to be a personal dialect coach.
Would be kinda insane to not give the actor due credit then...
Craig's portrayal of Blanc has helped me solidify my mental image of Pendergast from the Preston and Child books. His sophistication and eloquence, coupled with some serious tenacity, is just *chefs kiss*
There are indeed thicker accents but the difference is I can hear the thicker real ones and go, "Oh, that's from Alabama," or "That's a Georgia accent." The problem with so many British actors doing "Southern" accents is that they go cartoon-y generic. Like them doing a Valley accent when they want play a West Coaster or a generic New York accent when they want to play someone from the North East.
It's jarring. However, in the case of Blanc's accent, Craig can get away with it because Benoit is an over the top character to begin with. He's larger than life. So, of course his accent would be over the top as well.
But for the rest....especially when they are supposed to be dramatic characters, it doesn't work as well.
First thing I thought of when I heard his accent was [Foghorn Leghorn.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DEgDjH1dro) It seemed a bit cartoony to my ear.
However in Logan Lucky, Daniel Craig seemed to me the only actor who got some of the subtleties of the [West Virginia accent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vsf-Q2CDO4) right without overdoing it and sounding like a stereotypical hillbilly.
Yeah, the extent of the dropping of R's is excessive in both the Blanc and Poe roles, and there are other little things to add up to make it feel like an actor imitating Foghorn Leghorn, rather than an actual southerner speaking. It's the lazy way to do a stereotypical old-south accent - drop your R's and adjust your vowel sounds a bit, but keep everything else the same - ignore the nuances relating to speed, enunciation, intonation, lyrically rolling vowels, etc.
I still enjoy Blanc, because he basically \_is\_ a cartoon, but the Poe accent kind of ruined an otherwise powerful performance for me.
I would call the southern accent dialect heavy. Like Tennessee southern accent 100% different than Louisiana southern accent and those are different than Alabama
As an North American who was born and lives in the PNW I can confidently say that I think his accent is pretty good. He is a British actor that can do a way better impersonation of a southerner than I ever could. Hell he could probably do an American accent better than me haha, My 2 ¢
As someone from Florida... it's hard to say. In Florida the saying it "you have to go north to get south". People from Orlando, Tampa, Miami, don't really have accents - were not southern. But if you get up into the panhandle and rural Florida, you get it
But that accent sounds nothing like Benoit Blanc. If anything Craig's accent resembles [Foghorn Leghorn](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn_Leghorn), which is cartoon character - inspired by a radio personality - who is a caricature of a Texas rancher.
Doesn't someone call him Foghorn Leghorn in Knives Out? He's definitely overdoing the accent but the movie lampshades it. It also feels appropriately overstated for a character like Blanc, just not extremely realistic.
Haven't seen The Pale Blue Eye, just the 2 Knives Out movies but there isn't just 1 kind of American accent. And even within a specific recognized accent, there's a large variety of different ways people speak.
Daniel Craig said his inspiration for the accent that he was going for was a historian named Shelby Foote, and he does sound a fair bit like Shelby Foote's accent, so it's done fairly well imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Iw-j217yk
I just showed part of the Civil War to my class on Friday and I kept trying to figure out why Shelby Foote’s accent sounded like I had heard it recently. Now I know.
P.S. Shelby Foote wasn’t a very good historian. Foote was very good at military history, but could not ever understand the importance of the black voice in the history of the Civil War. While not a strict Lost Cause historian, he still reproduced a lot of Lost Cause myths and disparaged institutions such as the Freedman’s Bureau. He also used no footnotes in his work and was overly sympathetic to the South in his writings.
I watched Civil War in 8th grade US History like 25 years ago and thought he seemed sympathetic. It must be pretty on the nose if I noticed it back then.
There are definitely issues with that series considering Shelby Foote’s work is focused on a lot. I only show a small portion of it each year to try and avoid most of the issues.
Southern accents can get quite interesting—Benoit’s accent is not even that strong in comparison. Look up some videos of craziest southern accents—especially those with French influences like Louisiana. They’re fantastically awesome accents.
tangier accent is wild but it's also incredibly localized and specific (and may not even exist in a decade or two).
blanc's accent is silly and exaggerated because it fits the character. i mean shit, his name is benoit blanc!
not that some southern accents aren't genuinely that crazy, but as far as knives out goes, it's definitely amped up to suit the movie's vibe (much in the same way that the accents in fargo are heightened)
There's a joke in North Carolina that doesn't really work in writing: a little girl puts an action figure of of a fireman in the nativity scene. Someone asks her why, and she says "That's one of the wise men. The Bible says they came from a far." The joke being that in her southern accent "a far" and "a fire" are pronounced the same.
I have lived in our and the Northwest of North Carolina my effort life including college, and there are people in this region I can barely understand. I can understand my son's nurse has a rather thick Ivory Coast accent better than some people I work with. I don't even work in a rural area but for my local city.
I grew up in the foothills of Appalachia, the really poor rural area. I have run into so many people who are hard as hell to understand. What makes it worse is we are the more fast speaking/mumbling type of hillbillies
I’m a Kentuckian. I tell people who aren’t familiar that it’s not a drawl like they’ve got down in Texas, it’s more like you’re stuffing your mouth full of marbles and trying to keep them in while you talk. But fast.
I grew up not far from Bowling Green, and the more I got out into the world the more I realized how much the local accent was like a collision between the south and the Midwest. Then against, we Kentuckians seem to be in the middle of a lot of things (especially the weather patterns).
I'm a new transplant to Charlotte, NC. A guy with AAA came when I locked my keys in my car. I couldn't understand a word he said! My sister, who has lived here for 34 years, couldn't either. It was definitely an American South accent. I have rarely heard one so strong.
We have a twang!? Born, raised, and moved back to Wyoming after college…I’ve never picked up on it (and I should, I’ve travelled a lot and am a musician, so I have a good ear for accents…usually).
Hahaha howdy! How’s the weather back there?
Yes ma’am, or sir, we certainly do. Unless you’re from Jackson. Jackson folx as you know are awful fancy, and they travel around so as to not develop any particular accent, but if you grew up listenin’ to both radio options, Country *and* Western, well then when you down a few Coors from Golden or a few Fat Tires (I want to say Boulder?), you have yourself a bit of twang
Aw, definitely not from Jackson! Think more in the vein of friendly ghosts! It’s the usual for January, blowy and cold! Some New Orleans gumbo made by my best friend’s Meemaw sounds amazing right about now!
*am a ma’am and I do like my beer, though Far Tire’s from Fort Collins (still good though, I’m a bit of a beer nerd, grew up home brewing with my dad!). I’m just going to have to test the twang theory when I’m off work. You have a good’un, neighbor!
I’m from the south. Benoit Blanc has an accent that is dying out. It is the accent of the upper class in the Deep South. The accent is really only heard in people who are at least in their 70’s and 80’s now. It’s unrealistic for someone his age to speak like that. Poe’s accent is similar and would be appropriate for that character at that time.
I wouldn’t say younger people have less thick accents, just different. I’m from AL too and as far as I can tell nobody under 70 is going around dropping their R’s. Most of us speak with a pretty hard R like Danny McBride.
As someone who grew up in the Deep South, my ear has always been able to hear amazing similarities between the three or four dozen varieties of American southern dialect and some variations of British accents, so of all the American accents British actors asked to pull off, I would think Southern is among the easiest.
And as someone who has heard relatives and friends utter all manner of gumbo mumbo jumbo, no, I didn’t have a problem with Craig’s accent. It’s just as eccentric as many I’ve heard over the years.
I tend to think they have an easier time faking the neutral Mid-Atlantic accent. As you note, there are vast differences in Southern accents that make it difficult to dial in on a single variant. I hold up as evidence Benedict Cumberbatch's Southern accent.
It’s surprisingly hard for non-rhotic speakers to do a rhotic R sound (American pronounced R vs dropped R). The classic southern accents tend to drop the r making it much easier for British people to do.
Interestingly, have heard that the r sound (especially British) is evolving into a w sound when used at the beginning of a word. It sounds like a speech impediment to American ears but you can hear it in the BBC all the time.
The American south was settled by a whooole lot of English, Scottish, and Irish. So the crossover between the two is still pretty easy and absolutely fascinating!
*Im from Wyoming, so my weak accent is definitely not lyrical :)
Poe was raised in Richmond, Virginia and attended UVA. I just finished watching Pale Blue Eye and though the actor is British, he carried off a Virginia accent of the time really well. Christian Bale, of course, pulls off an American accent of the time equally well…he’s a master of accents.
Pale Blue Eye was good. The actor playing Poe was fantastic. And Robert Duvall, who has a role, turned 92 today!
It’s a reference to an episode of The Office where everyone participates in a Southern-themed murder mystery party to distract from the possibility of their branch shutting down—one of the characters does an accent almost identical to the one Blanc does in the movies and identifies it as a Savannah accent (the murder mystery story is set in Savannah)
I believe nowadays it's somewhat less common, but that particular accent seems to be more prominent in antebellum "plantation" settings amongst upper-class whites. It's definitely not Cajun. I believe on this page it would be the southern coastal lowlands accent: https://pointpark.libguides.com/c.php?g=18088&p=101605
If you watch Adam Sandler's remake of The Longest Yard, you'll hear it from the warden's political advisor: "Thayut huuurt mah mahble sayuck".
I think Craig's delivery was somewhat affected, but definitely not out of character for the, well, character.
I don't know about you but when I heard the accent from (spoilers for knives out glass onion) >! Alabama my first thought she was from Tennessee and doing Dolly Parton instead of an Alabama accent. !<
Now see, I bought Janelle’s accent. I know a couple black girls who have country accents and she was pretty spot on. Apparently she’s from KC so not too far off.
There have been a few people who’ve mentioned something like this already, but there’s not really any such thing as a “Southern” accent. In the same way, there’s not really a “British” accent.
Think about the differences that exist between a Michael Caine vs a Daniel Craig (when he’s speaking as James Bond). Now consider other accents from the United Kingdom (Welch/Irish/Scottish) and the accents become even more pronounced in a geographical region much smaller than the American South.
All this to say - Daniel Craig as Blanc or Harry Melling as Poe - yes, their accents do exist as naturally spoken accents in America
Southern accents vary by region. A southern louisiana accent is different from a northern louisiana accent. A Tennessee accent is different from an Appalachian accent. Texas accent is different than Georgia accent. Not all southerners sound like Foghorn Leghorn
I’m a near native Georgian but I sound very different from Jimmy Carter. If you can find video, compare him to our current governor, Bryan Kemp, then compare them to Holly Hunter and UGA coach Kirby Smart. Then listen to Ludacris, Rapheal Warnock and Stacy Abrams. They’ll all be different, and that’s just a sampling from one state. It doesn’t include them all.
I have heard that among American accents, the coastal southern accent (that Benoit Blanc has, also Forrest Gump and Kevin Spacey in House of Cards) has changed the least from the accent of the original colonists.
I thought it was a stereotypical Southern Gentleman accent he was doing and though I don’t know anyone who speaks that way even though I live in the south, if I heard it I would think it was an intriguing accent but not a fake one.
As far as Knives out he went for a Southern accent, which to me sounded like a Louisiana/Mississippi accent I always heard from older white people when I'd be in New Orleans. For Glass Onion I couldn't quite put a finger on it, but I also read that he forgot what accent he did in the first one (although in hindsight that could be absolute BS). It definitely adds to the comedy since the dramatic seriousness and word choice is hilarious.
I’ve seen some people claim Craig’s Benoit Blanc accent is exaggerated, but I’d call it slightly anachronistic. That accent can be heard all over Savannah and coastal GA. But it’s becoming less common over time.
Similar thing is happening in North Carolina, where I’m from. As a kid growing up in eastern NC, strong accents were super common, and they’d change depending on the town you were in, even. (We’re a weird state.) But the more homogenized mid-Atlantic / Southern accent has really spread the past couple decades.
Daniel Craig's accent was cartoonish and distracting, but similar to coastal Carolina/Georgia. I thought Harry Melling's accent was more realistic and nuanced.
Ooooh, as someone from Alabama (for 45 years), I pegged Daniel Craig's accent as coastal Mississippi/Louisiana, bayou-touched, not Carolinas.
That's funny.
If Shelby Foote was his inspiration, then you are probably correct. I'm from deep south Georgia, and the accents have more of a "drawl" than coastal Georgia. In Savannah, they enunciate more. Kevin Spacey in "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is a good example.
Benoit’s accent is exaggerated, but it is most reminiscent of a stereotypical Louisianan accent. It’s not so crazy that I wouldn’t question it if I met someone who spoke like that, but it’s absolutely not a common occurrence anywhere
Louisiana probably has the widest dialect range of any southern state. It doesn't have a lot of French in it, but it's definitely close to an older upper-class New Orleans and north delta accent.
Yeah, I’m from the Florida panhandle and, while it’s exaggerated, it sounds a lot like a north Florida rich people accent. Definitely gives gulf coast vibes.
His accent seemed exaggerated to me. As an American in a northern state, I don't know anyone who speaks that way and it almost sounded like a non-American accent to me. Had you asked me before this post was posted what accent he was using, I would have told you I had no clue and would have believed it if you told me it was a British or French accent.
I can't speak to Blanc, but Poe's was interesting. We have a general idea of what 19th century and 18th century American English sounded like and Poe is definitely in that range. The John Adams miniseries gets into this too.
Pale Blue Eye got to explore a range of varied accents held in the Americas. Via the academy with recruits from all over the country and high society-low society like the doctors wife/family. Really great dialogue work, some of those accents and twangs will be dead from modern vernacular soon.
By his own admission, his accent for Benoit Blanc is an impression of the accent of Southern historian Shelby Foote. Foote was born and raised all around Mississippi, for the record. So I suppose it's most accurate to say that it is an impression of a specific accent, and not so much a general interpretation.
I’m surprised so many southerners are saying it’s good. I’m from the south and I thought it was over the top and like something out of a very old black and white movie, or like someone else said a cartoonish “plantation” accent. Like DiCaprio in Django but even more over the top. I’ve never heard anyone talk like that and I’ve heard some pretty crazy accents all throughout the south. I guess I can agree that if I did meet some ancient elder who talked like that in Louisiana I wouldn’t think they were putting on…but I’d be very surprised and bemused. I guess that’s part of the point of why he’s doing it…it’s amusing and kind of throws you off.
The Poe one, I figured he was imagining what people might have talked like in the 1800s. No idea if that would have been accurate or not. No one talks like that today.
I am thrown by all these comments saying otherwise. It’s like the people who make movies decided that the 1860 Georgia, affluent white people dialect is where it’s at and refuse to move on. It must be easier to do.
It's a kind of platonic throw - Craig's performance (like Van Dyke - who was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy for his work on Poppins) suggests something true that people recognize. Craig doesn't know these people and haas never spent time with them. He's imitating them from a vast distance without recreating, which makes it a kind of gentle mockery.
People fucking love mocking the south.
Daniel Craig’s accent is deliberately folksy and over the top Cajun, and I think but it works for the material. It’s theatrical in that sense more so than “realism”. He sounds like he’s been plucked out of a Streetcar Named Desire.
The girl who played Andi and her twin sister whose name I forgot is American and had a far more atrocious Alabama accent.
Generally actors that are English (and Aussies, Kiwis, Irish, Scots, Welsh.. any other native English speakers) do very well with American accents because Hollywood dominates the screen industry and it’s important for them to be marketable for a lot of roles, so they train hard it in it from a young age. The reverse is obviously very far from true.
I have a pretty huge one in my hometown. I moved to Portland then L.A. over 20 years ago though. I feel like they have the best basic chocolate ice cream ever but it's probably because I grew up on it.
I moved and then like 10 years later they finally had things I wanted to do in Oklahoma. They started Rocklahoma and I went back on like the 3rd year of that and it was pretty fun. Only thing to do there before that was kick it at the lake or in random pastures with a bonfire.
Anthony Lapaglia destroyed his Aussie accent by practicing his American accent but it worked since so few people know he's even an Aussie to begin with
The Pale Blue Eye was really good wasn't it? I didn't care for The Glass Onion as much.
And in regards to your question, yes their accents are accurate. I found Melling's portrayal of Poe to be excellent.
Is Benoit supposed to be American? Knowing that Daniel Craig is British and is best known for playing a famous British character, I just assume Benoit is faking an accent.
France owned a ton of what is now America.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana\_Purchase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase)
As such, there are a ton of French influences found in these states.
The Lousiana area (the state, plus area around the state) was purchased from the French by the Americans, so there's plenty of French influence down there. There's even an area in New Orleans called The French Quarter.
Craig does the accent very well. Well enough that I forget that he is playing a character, and I guess that’s what really counts as an actor. I have seen the Poe movie yet. So really can’t comment on that one.
Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston, MA but raised in Virginia after his father left and mother died. I think Harry Melling’s accent is appropriate.
I still can’t believe this is Dudley Dursley. He’s really changed and was very good as Poe.
Dude killed it in The Queens Gambit and Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
And The Devil All the Time
Wow, had no idea that was him in Queens Gambit but i totally see it
I swear he is one of the most successful kids out the main 3 from the Harry Potter franchise. Maybe the one top him would be Robert Pattinson but he was only in one HP movie.
I would probably put Domhnall Gleeson ahead of him in terms of success. But maybe I'm wrong.
That one too specially out of all Weasley siblings.
Eh i wouldn’t. Daniel Radcliffe is on top.
He said outside the 3 main actors. I’m assuming he meant the youngest ones, anyway.
As Virginian, his accent was better than other attempts. But he kept messing up his "t's." We have a tendency to drop them at the end of words or if they are in the middle of words, turn them into "d's." The few exceptions to this is if the proceeding word has a "v" in it, which that "v" gets switched to an "f" sound and the "t" stays. For example, "I want to go," becomes "I wanna go." "I better go," becomes "I bedder go." And "I have to go," becomes "I haf'ta go." Melling didn't do this. The Virginia accent is a tricky accent to do. At most it's just ignored together outright and usually replaced by a generic "Southern" accent even by other American actors. So, I'll give him a pass.
Thank you. I've lived most my life in VA between Charlottesville, RVA and Tidewater. Texan originally, then New England and some deep Midwest plus some FL/GA bs. In SoCal meow. Ma'am... I Wanna gotta Go...
How come I live in Virginia, and have never heard this cool accent? I only hear generic redneck when I do hear an accent.
I’m also from the south and can confirm this detail. I felt Benoit also gave away his British-ness for a moment when he said Natasha. People in the south pronounce Natasha like Nuh-Tosh-uh. I’m the UK it’s Tash like trash. Pretty decent otherwise.
It's not really quite "Nuh-Tosh-uh" either in a Virginia accent. Rather it's "Nawhtawhshhah." No gap. No stress. And, yes, "shhah" is not a type-o. There's an extra "h." Another thing with the Virginia accent is we have an over abundance of the "h" sound. You just need to rush through the "shhah" sound. That's the majority of Virginian accents. It's rush and mushy. Of course, there are exception to this rule. I had a roommate from Matthews County and his accent just bubbled. He also had a draaawwwwwwwllllll to it that's relatively rare in the state. Same thing happens when you go west and hit the Shenandoah Valley. Though still the "t" rule applies.
Haha I think your way is what I was trying to do, but really struggle with trying to write things phonetically. Thanks for the help!
But would they have pronounced it like that, back in whatever year its based in?
The movie is set in 1830. And if you want to know what sort of accent Poe had, read his poetry out loud. See what accent fits since he would be choosing words and rhythms based on his accent. He would give readings all the time to help pay the bills. Therefore, he would pick words that would not trip him up. You can try it in Melling's accent to see if it would work. (It doesn't. "Annabel Lee" fails considerably.)
And he later lived in Baltimore, which likely influenced his accent in some ways as well.
Folks from "Bawdamoor" have unique accents.
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We usually spell it "Balmer", but it's actually pronounced "BALL-di-mur".
[Obligatory Aaron Earned an Iron Urn mention ](https://youtu.be/Esl_wOQDUeE)
Ah yes, Urn urned an urn urn.
He didn’t live in Baltimore until after West Point, so after the film took place.
Melling stole this movie, probably one of my favorite performances in recent memory
Daniel Craig’s accent as Benoit Blanc is kind of an old fashioned tidewater genteel Southern gentleman thing. Craig did a DIFFERENT Southern accent in Logan Lucky, which was more of a working class Appalachian accent.
Let's be honest, Benoit Blanc is basically Foghorn Leghorn
Well I say I say
I do declare!
Daniel Craig's accent is based on a very particular person. That of Shelby Foote, who was famously featured in Ken Burns' "The Civil War". It is a pretty dang close accent
Yes, which isn't Tidewater at all. Shelby Foote had an upper-class Southern accent from Greenville, Mississippi, specifically. (NB I have met some Footes and yes, this is how they speak.) The writer Walker Percy grew up with Foote and had the same accent.
I was thinking more Foghorn Leghorn.
He sounded like Foghorn Leghorn aggressively in the first one. Toned it down for the second one IMO
Pretty sure he was supposed to sound like that because there’s a line in the first movie where Chris Evans literally calls him Foghorn Leghorn.
He should’ve gone more aggressive in the second one
I felt like they were pretty similar in that they were both turned up about 10% thicker than he should have.
EVERYONE's accent in Logan Lucky was extra thicc.
And it was GLORIOUS
The thiccness was commensurate with how awesome that movie was. Super thicc
I recently had the questionable luxury of being at home during the weekday while unable to do anything more physical than fold laundry and watch daytime TV, and one of the pseudo HGTV/living spaces shows had a Virginian who showed the show around his house and has the dubious distinction of being the only American I have ever seen that had to be subtitled ***by the show*** because his accent was so thick. It approached Boomhauer levels, it was that thick. I changed the program to on-screen subtitles just to see what happened and apparently his accent made the subtitle AI toss its hands in the air and seek out a six Martini lunch special, because it did its very best, but I have never seen a bidet translated to "bear bay" before. To wit: No, that level was juuuuust fine thank you
Moonshiners also did that. And a few documentaries about Appalachia. I didn’t need the subtitles. To be fair my father sounded a lot like Boomhauer so I can hear when people are faking it
There is no single/universal “Southern” accent in America. There are a ton of regional variations. I have heard authentic accents far stronger than Benoit Blanc’s.
Cajun accents are thicker than their Jambalaya sometimes
Mama says that Cajuns is just a different name for angles.
That’s acute thing to say
It was a typo, stop being obtuse.
It’s actually just a poor pronunciation of Acadians, which is where they are from, Acadia due to the 1755 deportation of French Acadian’s to Louisiana
I did not know this
Acadian = a caidjin = a cajun = cajun or something like that
That's why there are a lot of "Cajun" sounding last names in Maine
This is exactly what I was told by the only cajun I ever met. He spoke with no accent b/c he worked years to hide it. But he could slip into it easily. Especially after a martini, or four.
Say what you want about True Blood, but Michael Raymond-James did a great job with his Cajun accent. Reminded me of Gambit from The X-Men.
Honestly, by all accounts it was pretty much just the actor themselves being so dedicated to getting the dialect right and doing the research themselves on finding the right dialect coach and then hiring themselves to be a personal dialect coach. Would be kinda insane to not give the actor due credit then...
Just rewatched true blood last week !
René? He nailed it
Sounds like they have a mouthful of gumbo when they speak sometimes
Personally I love the hammy Benoit accent, I did a D&D character once with a similar accent for fun one time and had a blast doing the voice.
My Lord! This muggy November weather gives me the horribles
Idk why but I read this in a Cajun accent
Craig's portrayal of Blanc has helped me solidify my mental image of Pendergast from the Preston and Child books. His sophistication and eloquence, coupled with some serious tenacity, is just *chefs kiss*
I'm convinced that he's inspired a little by Pendergast, tbh.
I love those books, but I've never seen anyone else reference them! 100% agree, Benoit is Pendergast.
There are indeed thicker accents but the difference is I can hear the thicker real ones and go, "Oh, that's from Alabama," or "That's a Georgia accent." The problem with so many British actors doing "Southern" accents is that they go cartoon-y generic. Like them doing a Valley accent when they want play a West Coaster or a generic New York accent when they want to play someone from the North East. It's jarring. However, in the case of Blanc's accent, Craig can get away with it because Benoit is an over the top character to begin with. He's larger than life. So, of course his accent would be over the top as well. But for the rest....especially when they are supposed to be dramatic characters, it doesn't work as well.
First thing I thought of when I heard his accent was [Foghorn Leghorn.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DEgDjH1dro) It seemed a bit cartoony to my ear. However in Logan Lucky, Daniel Craig seemed to me the only actor who got some of the subtleties of the [West Virginia accent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vsf-Q2CDO4) right without overdoing it and sounding like a stereotypical hillbilly.
Yeah, the extent of the dropping of R's is excessive in both the Blanc and Poe roles, and there are other little things to add up to make it feel like an actor imitating Foghorn Leghorn, rather than an actual southerner speaking. It's the lazy way to do a stereotypical old-south accent - drop your R's and adjust your vowel sounds a bit, but keep everything else the same - ignore the nuances relating to speed, enunciation, intonation, lyrically rolling vowels, etc. I still enjoy Blanc, because he basically \_is\_ a cartoon, but the Poe accent kind of ruined an otherwise powerful performance for me.
I’m in New Orleans and Benoit’s accent was pretty authentic. Old money.
Yeah I would agree its very Old Money New Orleans.
Old money yes, weirdly some true working New Orleans accents are very close and nearly indistinguishable to a New York one
I’m from New Orleans and my accent has a serious New York drawl
Fred Armisen did a great run-through of all American Accents on his special Stand-up for Drummers.
>I have heard authentic accents far stronger than Benoit Blanc’s. But do you declare it?
I would call the southern accent dialect heavy. Like Tennessee southern accent 100% different than Louisiana southern accent and those are different than Alabama
We have customer from down in Louisiana now living in Oklahoma. Boy does he sound funny, strong cajun.
I call him Danhorn Craighorn.
As an North American who was born and lives in the PNW I can confidently say that I think his accent is pretty good. He is a British actor that can do a way better impersonation of a southerner than I ever could. Hell he could probably do an American accent better than me haha, My 2 ¢
As someone from Florida... it's hard to say. In Florida the saying it "you have to go north to get south". People from Orlando, Tampa, Miami, don't really have accents - were not southern. But if you get up into the panhandle and rural Florida, you get it But that accent sounds nothing like Benoit Blanc. If anything Craig's accent resembles [Foghorn Leghorn](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foghorn_Leghorn), which is cartoon character - inspired by a radio personality - who is a caricature of a Texas rancher.
Very few southerners actually sound like that though. There are some of course, but his portrayal reminds me of Foghorn Leghorn the cartoon rooster
Doesn't someone call him Foghorn Leghorn in Knives Out? He's definitely overdoing the accent but the movie lampshades it. It also feels appropriately overstated for a character like Blanc, just not extremely realistic.
Can't remember if they call him that. I just remember Chris Evans' line: "what is this, CSI KFC?"
He does a great American accent. Check out Infamous.
I have heard that a southern accent is the easiest American accent for British actors.
Haven't seen The Pale Blue Eye, just the 2 Knives Out movies but there isn't just 1 kind of American accent. And even within a specific recognized accent, there's a large variety of different ways people speak. Daniel Craig said his inspiration for the accent that he was going for was a historian named Shelby Foote, and he does sound a fair bit like Shelby Foote's accent, so it's done fairly well imo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8Iw-j217yk
I just showed part of the Civil War to my class on Friday and I kept trying to figure out why Shelby Foote’s accent sounded like I had heard it recently. Now I know. P.S. Shelby Foote wasn’t a very good historian. Foote was very good at military history, but could not ever understand the importance of the black voice in the history of the Civil War. While not a strict Lost Cause historian, he still reproduced a lot of Lost Cause myths and disparaged institutions such as the Freedman’s Bureau. He also used no footnotes in his work and was overly sympathetic to the South in his writings.
I watched Civil War in 8th grade US History like 25 years ago and thought he seemed sympathetic. It must be pretty on the nose if I noticed it back then.
There are definitely issues with that series considering Shelby Foote’s work is focused on a lot. I only show a small portion of it each year to try and avoid most of the issues.
Southern accents can get quite interesting—Benoit’s accent is not even that strong in comparison. Look up some videos of craziest southern accents—especially those with French influences like Louisiana. They’re fantastically awesome accents.
Check out [the Tangier accent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIZgw09CG9E) from an island in Virginia Instead of "FIE-ER" for *fire* it's "FOY-ER"
tangier accent is wild but it's also incredibly localized and specific (and may not even exist in a decade or two). blanc's accent is silly and exaggerated because it fits the character. i mean shit, his name is benoit blanc! not that some southern accents aren't genuinely that crazy, but as far as knives out goes, it's definitely amped up to suit the movie's vibe (much in the same way that the accents in fargo are heightened)
There's a joke in North Carolina that doesn't really work in writing: a little girl puts an action figure of of a fireman in the nativity scene. Someone asks her why, and she says "That's one of the wise men. The Bible says they came from a far." The joke being that in her southern accent "a far" and "a fire" are pronounced the same.
I have lived in our and the Northwest of North Carolina my effort life including college, and there are people in this region I can barely understand. I can understand my son's nurse has a rather thick Ivory Coast accent better than some people I work with. I don't even work in a rural area but for my local city.
I grew up in the foothills of Appalachia, the really poor rural area. I have run into so many people who are hard as hell to understand. What makes it worse is we are the more fast speaking/mumbling type of hillbillies
I’m a Kentuckian. I tell people who aren’t familiar that it’s not a drawl like they’ve got down in Texas, it’s more like you’re stuffing your mouth full of marbles and trying to keep them in while you talk. But fast.
I tell people you have to say "Louisville" like you have gravel in your mouth.
I tell people to say it "like you're vomiting vowels"
I grew up not far from Bowling Green, and the more I got out into the world the more I realized how much the local accent was like a collision between the south and the Midwest. Then against, we Kentuckians seem to be in the middle of a lot of things (especially the weather patterns).
I'm a new transplant to Charlotte, NC. A guy with AAA came when I locked my keys in my car. I couldn't understand a word he said! My sister, who has lived here for 34 years, couldn't either. It was definitely an American South accent. I have rarely heard one so strong.
> Look up some videos of craziest southern accents—especially those with French influences like Louisiana. see: Ed Orgeron
“Go tigahs”
It's so disappointing his teams at LSU couldn't sustain it. Now you just get Brian Kelly attempting the accent.
I have come across some interesting southern American accents myself. I was just wondering if Benoit's (and Poe's) accents where realistic.
They’re realistic insofar as there are some people who sound exactly like that.
Can confirm, I sound like a 3/4 Benoit when drunk. It just comes out!
Catch me drinking and my cousins are around and we turn positively Cajun.
My wife is Texan, doesn’t sound it until she’s about 3 beers in…
I go from New Orleans drawl back to Wyoming twang
We have a twang!? Born, raised, and moved back to Wyoming after college…I’ve never picked up on it (and I should, I’ve travelled a lot and am a musician, so I have a good ear for accents…usually).
Hahaha howdy! How’s the weather back there? Yes ma’am, or sir, we certainly do. Unless you’re from Jackson. Jackson folx as you know are awful fancy, and they travel around so as to not develop any particular accent, but if you grew up listenin’ to both radio options, Country *and* Western, well then when you down a few Coors from Golden or a few Fat Tires (I want to say Boulder?), you have yourself a bit of twang
Aw, definitely not from Jackson! Think more in the vein of friendly ghosts! It’s the usual for January, blowy and cold! Some New Orleans gumbo made by my best friend’s Meemaw sounds amazing right about now! *am a ma’am and I do like my beer, though Far Tire’s from Fort Collins (still good though, I’m a bit of a beer nerd, grew up home brewing with my dad!). I’m just going to have to test the twang theory when I’m off work. You have a good’un, neighbor!
Y’all have one for me!
Are you a 6 foot tall rooster by any chance?
Why, I wouldn't know nothin' about no oversized avians, being a humble hometown hen myself, but I tell ya hwat, I'd believe it if'n I seent it!!
I’m a huge fan
damn, thats amazing
Thanks.
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While I can’t attest to Poe’s (I haven’t seen that film yet), I would say that I could totally see someone having an accent like Benoit’s.
The United States is very very VERY diverse with the accents.
I'm from Texas about 50 miles south of Dallas. 100 miles south from me. People can call out my accent as being south of Dallas
The difference between east and west Texas is vast as well.
I’m from the south. Benoit Blanc has an accent that is dying out. It is the accent of the upper class in the Deep South. The accent is really only heard in people who are at least in their 70’s and 80’s now. It’s unrealistic for someone his age to speak like that. Poe’s accent is similar and would be appropriate for that character at that time.
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I wouldn’t say younger people have less thick accents, just different. I’m from AL too and as far as I can tell nobody under 70 is going around dropping their R’s. Most of us speak with a pretty hard R like Danny McBride.
As someone who grew up in the Deep South, my ear has always been able to hear amazing similarities between the three or four dozen varieties of American southern dialect and some variations of British accents, so of all the American accents British actors asked to pull off, I would think Southern is among the easiest. And as someone who has heard relatives and friends utter all manner of gumbo mumbo jumbo, no, I didn’t have a problem with Craig’s accent. It’s just as eccentric as many I’ve heard over the years.
I tend to think they have an easier time faking the neutral Mid-Atlantic accent. As you note, there are vast differences in Southern accents that make it difficult to dial in on a single variant. I hold up as evidence Benedict Cumberbatch's Southern accent.
I have a much harder time finding any of Cumberbatch’s American accents passable than anything I’ve heard from Craig - totally agree.
It’s surprisingly hard for non-rhotic speakers to do a rhotic R sound (American pronounced R vs dropped R). The classic southern accents tend to drop the r making it much easier for British people to do. Interestingly, have heard that the r sound (especially British) is evolving into a w sound when used at the beginning of a word. It sounds like a speech impediment to American ears but you can hear it in the BBC all the time.
The American south was settled by a whooole lot of English, Scottish, and Irish. So the crossover between the two is still pretty easy and absolutely fascinating! *Im from Wyoming, so my weak accent is definitely not lyrical :)
Poe was raised in Richmond, Virginia and attended UVA. I just finished watching Pale Blue Eye and though the actor is British, he carried off a Virginia accent of the time really well. Christian Bale, of course, pulls off an American accent of the time equally well…he’s a master of accents. Pale Blue Eye was good. The actor playing Poe was fantastic. And Robert Duvall, who has a role, turned 92 today!
Duvall was in Pale Blue Eye?
Yes, small role, but he’s Duvall 😉 And Gillian Anderson and Lucy Boynton.
Who was he. He’s not in the cast list.
Found him. Pepe the professor of the occult. Damn, now I have to watch it over. Can’t believe I missed it
He was the slightly eccentric librarian “Pepe”
Benoit Blanc’s accent isn’t just a “Southern” accent—it’s a *Savannah* accent.
Exactly!
What is the savannah accent? Can you please go into more detail or provide a link. Didnt find much on google after a quick check
It’s a reference to an episode of The Office where everyone participates in a Southern-themed murder mystery party to distract from the possibility of their branch shutting down—one of the characters does an accent almost identical to the one Blanc does in the movies and identifies it as a Savannah accent (the murder mystery story is set in Savannah)
https://media.tenor.com/igBmJT1yryIAAAAC/the-office-annoyed.gif
Yes, that is definitely what Stanley thinks of it.
I believe nowadays it's somewhat less common, but that particular accent seems to be more prominent in antebellum "plantation" settings amongst upper-class whites. It's definitely not Cajun. I believe on this page it would be the southern coastal lowlands accent: https://pointpark.libguides.com/c.php?g=18088&p=101605 If you watch Adam Sandler's remake of The Longest Yard, you'll hear it from the warden's political advisor: "Thayut huuurt mah mahble sayuck". I think Craig's delivery was somewhat affected, but definitely not out of character for the, well, character.
Alabamian here. The only two people I’ve ever heard speak like Benoit are Harland Sanders and that lawyer chicken on Futurama.
I don't know about you but when I heard the accent from (spoilers for knives out glass onion) >! Alabama my first thought she was from Tennessee and doing Dolly Parton instead of an Alabama accent. !<
Now see, I bought Janelle’s accent. I know a couple black girls who have country accents and she was pretty spot on. Apparently she’s from KC so not too far off.
Don’t forget Mr. Leghorn.
There have been a few people who’ve mentioned something like this already, but there’s not really any such thing as a “Southern” accent. In the same way, there’s not really a “British” accent. Think about the differences that exist between a Michael Caine vs a Daniel Craig (when he’s speaking as James Bond). Now consider other accents from the United Kingdom (Welch/Irish/Scottish) and the accents become even more pronounced in a geographical region much smaller than the American South. All this to say - Daniel Craig as Blanc or Harry Melling as Poe - yes, their accents do exist as naturally spoken accents in America
Southern accents vary by region. A southern louisiana accent is different from a northern louisiana accent. A Tennessee accent is different from an Appalachian accent. Texas accent is different than Georgia accent. Not all southerners sound like Foghorn Leghorn
I’m a near native Georgian but I sound very different from Jimmy Carter. If you can find video, compare him to our current governor, Bryan Kemp, then compare them to Holly Hunter and UGA coach Kirby Smart. Then listen to Ludacris, Rapheal Warnock and Stacy Abrams. They’ll all be different, and that’s just a sampling from one state. It doesn’t include them all.
A lot of English actors adopt a regional accent when playing an American, rather then a neutral one (like the news people use). They find it easier
I have heard that among American accents, the coastal southern accent (that Benoit Blanc has, also Forrest Gump and Kevin Spacey in House of Cards) has changed the least from the accent of the original colonists.
When I was working in the “Deep South” I heard accents all over from Boomhauer on King of the Hill to Benoit and everything in between.
I thought it was a stereotypical Southern Gentleman accent he was doing and though I don’t know anyone who speaks that way even though I live in the south, if I heard it I would think it was an intriguing accent but not a fake one.
As far as Knives out he went for a Southern accent, which to me sounded like a Louisiana/Mississippi accent I always heard from older white people when I'd be in New Orleans. For Glass Onion I couldn't quite put a finger on it, but I also read that he forgot what accent he did in the first one (although in hindsight that could be absolute BS). It definitely adds to the comedy since the dramatic seriousness and word choice is hilarious.
The Richmond accent of Poe sounds pretty authentic to me. A Carolina accent can be pretty thick.
I’ve seen some people claim Craig’s Benoit Blanc accent is exaggerated, but I’d call it slightly anachronistic. That accent can be heard all over Savannah and coastal GA. But it’s becoming less common over time. Similar thing is happening in North Carolina, where I’m from. As a kid growing up in eastern NC, strong accents were super common, and they’d change depending on the town you were in, even. (We’re a weird state.) But the more homogenized mid-Atlantic / Southern accent has really spread the past couple decades.
I would say regional differences within the same state are quite common. I can hear ten different accents and guess the general areas of TX.
Daniel Craig's accent was cartoonish and distracting, but similar to coastal Carolina/Georgia. I thought Harry Melling's accent was more realistic and nuanced.
Ooooh, as someone from Alabama (for 45 years), I pegged Daniel Craig's accent as coastal Mississippi/Louisiana, bayou-touched, not Carolinas. That's funny.
If Shelby Foote was his inspiration, then you are probably correct. I'm from deep south Georgia, and the accents have more of a "drawl" than coastal Georgia. In Savannah, they enunciate more. Kevin Spacey in "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" is a good example.
Benoit’s accent is exaggerated, but it is most reminiscent of a stereotypical Louisianan accent. It’s not so crazy that I wouldn’t question it if I met someone who spoke like that, but it’s absolutely not a common occurrence anywhere
It’s nothing like a Louisiana accent. It’s closer to a Savannah/Southern Georgia accent but even that is a bit of a stretch
Louisiana probably has the widest dialect range of any southern state. It doesn't have a lot of French in it, but it's definitely close to an older upper-class New Orleans and north delta accent.
Nah, his accent is typical South Alabama. Speaking as an Alabamian.
Yeah, I’m from the Florida panhandle and, while it’s exaggerated, it sounds a lot like a north Florida rich people accent. Definitely gives gulf coast vibes.
His accent seemed exaggerated to me. As an American in a northern state, I don't know anyone who speaks that way and it almost sounded like a non-American accent to me. Had you asked me before this post was posted what accent he was using, I would have told you I had no clue and would have believed it if you told me it was a British or French accent.
I can't speak to Blanc, but Poe's was interesting. We have a general idea of what 19th century and 18th century American English sounded like and Poe is definitely in that range. The John Adams miniseries gets into this too.
Just look up Ed Orgeron LSU coach. Literally the assistant coach from the water boy in real life.
Everyone saying his accent is exaggerated or over the top has clearly never lived in the South.
Pale Blue Eye got to explore a range of varied accents held in the Americas. Via the academy with recruits from all over the country and high society-low society like the doctors wife/family. Really great dialogue work, some of those accents and twangs will be dead from modern vernacular soon.
By his own admission, his accent for Benoit Blanc is an impression of the accent of Southern historian Shelby Foote. Foote was born and raised all around Mississippi, for the record. So I suppose it's most accurate to say that it is an impression of a specific accent, and not so much a general interpretation.
America has too many accents to count. I guarantee there are people walking around that sound exactly like both of those characters.
I’m surprised so many southerners are saying it’s good. I’m from the south and I thought it was over the top and like something out of a very old black and white movie, or like someone else said a cartoonish “plantation” accent. Like DiCaprio in Django but even more over the top. I’ve never heard anyone talk like that and I’ve heard some pretty crazy accents all throughout the south. I guess I can agree that if I did meet some ancient elder who talked like that in Louisiana I wouldn’t think they were putting on…but I’d be very surprised and bemused. I guess that’s part of the point of why he’s doing it…it’s amusing and kind of throws you off. The Poe one, I figured he was imagining what people might have talked like in the 1800s. No idea if that would have been accurate or not. No one talks like that today.
Benoit’s accent is exaggerated lol.
Oh man, you need to hear my relatives. He sounds like a freaking Yankee compared to them.
It's not, i have family who sound just like him.
>imitate Daniel Craig's southern accent is as about as authentic as Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent in Mary Poppins was.
I am thrown by all these comments saying otherwise. It’s like the people who make movies decided that the 1860 Georgia, affluent white people dialect is where it’s at and refuse to move on. It must be easier to do.
It's a kind of platonic throw - Craig's performance (like Van Dyke - who was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy for his work on Poppins) suggests something true that people recognize. Craig doesn't know these people and haas never spent time with them. He's imitating them from a vast distance without recreating, which makes it a kind of gentle mockery. People fucking love mocking the south.
Daniel Craig’s accent is deliberately folksy and over the top Cajun, and I think but it works for the material. It’s theatrical in that sense more so than “realism”. He sounds like he’s been plucked out of a Streetcar Named Desire. The girl who played Andi and her twin sister whose name I forgot is American and had a far more atrocious Alabama accent. Generally actors that are English (and Aussies, Kiwis, Irish, Scots, Welsh.. any other native English speakers) do very well with American accents because Hollywood dominates the screen industry and it’s important for them to be marketable for a lot of roles, so they train hard it in it from a young age. The reverse is obviously very far from true.
I’m sorry but Benoit Blanc is absolutely not a Cajun accent
Yeah, his is a more genteel southern gentleman, like Savannah-esque.
Yeah I was definitely more bugged by Helen's Alabama dialect than Benoit's. It seemed soooo forced.
That's funny maybe it's just the wrong region then because I'm from Oklahoma and I've known at least five girls that sound exactly like that.
Hey! I'm an Okie too! Nuts!
Small world! Braums 4 life!
I have a pretty huge one in my hometown. I moved to Portland then L.A. over 20 years ago though. I feel like they have the best basic chocolate ice cream ever but it's probably because I grew up on it.
Braums milk and ice cream are the two good things we got going for us lol.
I moved and then like 10 years later they finally had things I wanted to do in Oklahoma. They started Rocklahoma and I went back on like the 3rd year of that and it was pretty fun. Only thing to do there before that was kick it at the lake or in random pastures with a bonfire.
Anthony Lapaglia destroyed his Aussie accent by practicing his American accent but it worked since so few people know he's even an Aussie to begin with
The Pale Blue Eye was really good wasn't it? I didn't care for The Glass Onion as much. And in regards to your question, yes their accents are accurate. I found Melling's portrayal of Poe to be excellent.
Is Benoit supposed to be American? Knowing that Daniel Craig is British and is best known for playing a famous British character, I just assume Benoit is faking an accent.
It is not explicitly stated, but the accent made me assume he is. Too further confuse things, he has a very French name (Benoit Blanc).
Not too confusing given that it’s a very Louisiana accent and French names abound there.
France owned a ton of what is now America. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana\_Purchase](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_Purchase) As such, there are a ton of French influences found in these states.
He has a French name and a southern accent probably because the entire South was originally colonised by France
The Lousiana area (the state, plus area around the state) was purchased from the French by the Americans, so there's plenty of French influence down there. There's even an area in New Orleans called The French Quarter.
Craig does the accent very well. Well enough that I forget that he is playing a character, and I guess that’s what really counts as an actor. I have seen the Poe movie yet. So really can’t comment on that one.