British actress Ophelia Lovibond said she had no problems using an American accent in her latest Disney film. The Londoner stars in Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made as the single mother of a quirky 11-year-old schoolboy who runs his own detective agency in Portland, Oregon, alongside his imaginary polar bear friend.
Lovibond, 34, plays an American in the film but said years of watching US movies meant she found adjusting to the accent relatively straightforward.
She told the PA news agency: “There was a dialect coach on set, but it was more just if there was a rogue word that I wasn’t 100% sure of – more the pronunciation of it, rather than the accent of it.
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