LEEVES CHANGES ACCENT BETWEEN COUNTRIES
British actress JANE LEEVES puts on an American accent whenever she is out and about in the U.S. because she struggles to be understood when she speaks in her natural voice.
The Frasier star has lived Stateside for nearly 30 years, and despite retaining her posh English accent, she insists on speaking in an American drawl to avoid confusion in the U.S.
She tells U.K. TV show Loose Women, "I’ve lived there (America) longer than I’ve lived here (England). I don’t feel like this is home anymore and I still feel like a foreigner there. They (Americans) think I sound terribly English and people here think I sound American.
"I think it’s the phrasing and various words. You go into a restaurant and you don’t want people making an issue, so you say (puts on American accent), ‘I’ll have the tomato basil’."
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