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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9729061" data-attributes="member: 78087">I am actually as (Korean-) English as the day is long, though I don’t think of my accent (public school English) as RP - I think of RP as how the Queen spoke, which was RP as it was first defined in the 1920s - but I concede it’s probably what people think of as RP now.(I used the term British because there’s a lot of other accents in Andor, including Northern Irish and Scottish, and it’s unclear what those mean in the series, if anything.)In the original trilogy (whence everything SW has taken its cue since), the only British accent was RP English and it meant Imperial officer, Mon Mothma, C3P0, or Obi-Wan Kenobi (with a dash of Guinness’ Scottishness, but as a Shakespearean and film actor of many decades it was mostly RP). Everyone else had some flavour of American or Canadian - Luke, Lando, Han, Leia, the Lars couple, Biggs, stormtroopers, rebels. The only exception I can think of was Wedge with Lawson’s Scottish occasionally-American accent.Assuming accents mean anything at all (and maybe they don’t) then you could argue that RP English means galactic elite (Chandrila, Coruscant elites) or people who aspire to pretending to be so (Imperial officers) and American means everyone else. That doesn’t have to mean that accents that are geographically related to RP English (all British accents) are related to Imperial-elite, of course, but it’s a bit weird to my ear. Given recent events especially I think it’d be more thematic for almost everyone not Imperial or elite to have American accents.I’m sure the main reason is that pretty much everyone working on the production apart from Arjona, Luna, Skarsgard, and Soller were British or based in England (Gough and Shaw are both Irish, for instance). I think Soller is using his normal Virginian accent and Kathryn Hunter is actually using her usual English accent (she in fact says that she’s using a slightly posher version than usual to imply that Eedy is a snob). This of course makes as much sense as a Mexican’s mum being Irish, so there you go.</blockquote>

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