Chernobyl has explained why the cast never spoke with Russian accents.Series director Johan Renck and creator Craig Mazin said they think it is “tremendously stupid” and detailed why they let their actors keep their own accents.“Accents in film is tremendously stupid,” Renck explained on a recent BAFTA panel. “It is not a hard question, it is ridiculous.
Are we supposed to feel they are more Russian because they are speaking bad English? No.”Mazin added: “The people that are most pleased about our choice with the accents are Russian speakers, I didn’t hear a complaint. (They say) ‘That is not how we talk, stop doing that’.“And also, the Soviet Union was a collection of many countries and countless amounts of ethnicities.
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