TikTok sensation A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder star Emma Myles on why watching Love Island was key to the role
ok.co.ukPip is trying to track down a killer in new BBC TV crime thriller A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder, but the American actress playing her was more concerned with tracking down an English accent. “Finding it was one of the biggest challenges during filming,” admits Emma Myers, who stars as werewolf Enid Sinclair in US drama Wednesday and now appears as English schoolgirl sleuth Pip Fitz-Amobi in the six-part A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder. “When I met the producers, they said, ‘If you can do a British accent the part is yours,’ but it hasn’t come easy.
I found I could do this exaggerated Essex accent, after tuning in to clips of Love Island, but the part of Pip requires a standard southern English accent, which is why I got a dialect coach.
I’m still not sure I’ve got it right. I shall probably watch the show on mute when it comes to TV!” A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder is based on the novel by Holly Jackson, which has sold more than 7 million copies worldwide.
Set in and around the fictional town of Little Kilton in Buckinghamshire, Pip has time on her hands during the summer holidays so decides to take on a most unusual school project.
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