Questions about Edith Sidebottom
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(and people say that being a character actor is a Bad Thing!) After
watching "... And Fancy Free" for the 2018th time last week, we got
into yet another discussion about the Widow Twanky's accent.
I say it sounds a bit Welsh; she says it's "just some generic
Australian accent". I responded with several rude and
unprintable remarks regarding my wife's sense of hearing
and total lack of knowledge of the difference between Aussie,
New Zealand, and English accents, and things got ugly from there.
So, I've got two questions for the experts here:
1) Can anyone identify that accent?
B) If so, did you also catch "Horatio Hornblower"? The reason
I ask is that I think the countess who turned out to be an actor
pretending to be a countess used that same accent; of course
the wife disagrees with me. It would be a great service to
marital bliss if someone could settle that question once and
for all.
Thanks, all. Be safe.
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Susan M. Sanders
wrote:
> My wife and I have become fans of Michael Hurst's numerous alter egos
> (and people say that being a character actor is a Bad Thing!) After
> watching "... And Fancy Free" for the 2018th time last week, we got
> into yet another discussion about the Widow Twanky's accent.
>
> I say it sounds a bit Welsh; she says it's "just some generic
> Australian accent".
No, it's not Australian, and it's also not generic. If memory serves,
Michael has said that it's his own mother's northern English accent he
uses for Twanky (which, in it's original, pre-Hercules, existence, was
spelled Twankey).
jennynowakowski
Lancashire, England.) Michael Hurst is originally from Lancashire,
England, then moved to New Zealand.
I'm afraid I don't know the answer to 2).
Jenny
see...@for.email.address wrote in article
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> My wife and I have become fans of Michael Hurst's numerous alter egos
> (and people say that being a character actor is a Bad Thing!) After
> watching "... And Fancy Free" for the 2018th time last week, we got
> into yet another discussion about the Widow Twanky's accent.
>
> I say it sounds a bit Welsh; she says it's "just some generic
Aethelrede
Susan M. Sanders wrote in message ...
>> (and people say that being a character actor is a Bad Thing!) After
>> watching "... And Fancy Free" for the 2018th time last week, we got
>> into yet another discussion about the Widow Twanky's accent.
>>
>> I say it sounds a bit Welsh; she says it's "just some generic
>> Australian accent".
>
>Michael has said that it's his own mother's northern English accent he
>uses for Twanky (which, in it's original, pre-Hercules, existence, was
>spelled Twankey).
It sounds more Lancashire than really northern to me, hardly surprising
since Michael lived there with his family until they moved to NZ when he was
eight years old.
Twankey, BTW, is (or was) a type of Chinese tea: the character is a
pantomime stock "Dame", a role which Michael plays in panto in NZ (I don't
know if they have that particular entertainment in Australia). John Inman
of "Are you being served?" did the same in the UK.
Ckmac19203
Just a quick comment... <EG>
> It sounds more Lancashire than really northern to me, hardly surprising
>since Michael lived there with his family until they moved to NZ when he was
>eight years old.
> Twankey, BTW, is (or was) a type of Chinese tea: the character is a
>pantomime stock "Dame", a role which Michael plays in panto in NZ (I don't
>know if they have that particular entertainment in Australia). John Inman
>of "Are you being served?" did the same in the UK.
>
>
I'd definitely say it's a mixture of the two! There's definitely a bit of
corrie/yorkshire/manchester in there two! But give the guy a break he hasn't
lived in the U.K for 30 years! <G!>
Whatever the accent is supposed to be, it always makes me roar with laughter, I
just love kevin and michael camping up the whole action genre! Wasn't that
scene with them fighting/dancing/flirting great! I can't wait to see "greece
is burning," from the 5th season, although it's only just started on british
t.v so we brits have a while to wait... I'll take a breath now...<g>
Aethelrede
Ckmac19203 wrote in message
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Listen for the way Widow T says "Loov": I'd say that's Lancashire (or
whatever it's called these days). But then I haven't lived in the UK for 26
years, so I may be a bit off: Lancashire is way north of the Watford Gap,
so it's one of the places I seldom visited (those exit visas cost money: the
entry visas were free back then).
Ckmac19203
> Listen for the way Widow T says "Loov": I'd say that's Lancashire (or
>whatever it's called these days). But then I haven't lived in the UK for 26
>years, so I may be a bit off: Lancashire is way north of the Watford Gap,
>so it's one of the places I seldom visited (those exit visas cost money: the
>entry visas were free back then).
>
I loved, "banging away on his anvil!"
and, "I'll wash your mouth out with soap"
and the whole grabbing of chins with "do you understand!" thing<G>
Infact, Mike's whole performance suspiciously reminded me of my grandmother,
who is yorkshire "born and bred," ie from Sheffield<G>... Oh dear, think I need
therapy,,,
Carla