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<blockquote data-quote="Taylor Bennett Jr." data-source="post: 176995" data-attributes="member: 2740">back to Texas here:&nbsp; I know it&#039;s a huge state and there has to be quite a variation of accents, but I&#039;d love to hear a Texan&#039;s assessment how how &#039;legit&#039; the various accents on the show were.&nbsp; We know Donna and JR were native (maybe Donna more so, as Larry Hagman only spent part of his early years in Texas, and JR certainly didn&#039;t call his half-brother &#039;Rye&#039; like Donna did)Were accents like, say Jordan Lee or Fenton Washburn, pretty legit, or maybe more a trained actor&#039;s version of a &#039;Southern accent&#039;?&nbsp; Fenton sure felt legit to me, but I really wouldn&#039;t know.I feel like Sue Ellen was the latter and Pam, too - and those two were pretty inconsistent as to how thick they&#039;d lay it on, if at all.&nbsp; Pam rarely used it after a while, but occasionally it would pop out for some reason (maybe due to the director&#039;s encouragement?).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Taylor Bennett Jr., post: 176995, member: 2740"] back to Texas here: I know it's a huge state and there has to be quite a variation of accents, but I'd love to hear a Texan's assessment how how 'legit' the various accents on the show were. We know Donna and JR were native (maybe Donna more so, as Larry Hagman only spent part of his early years in Texas, and JR certainly didn't call his half-brother 'Rye' like Donna did) Were accents like, say Jordan Lee or Fenton Washburn, pretty legit, or maybe more a trained actor's version of a 'Southern accent'? Fenton sure felt legit to me, but I really wouldn't know. I feel like Sue Ellen was the latter and Pam, too - and those two were pretty inconsistent as to how thick they'd lay it on, if at all. Pam rarely used it after a while, but occasionally it would pop out for some reason (maybe due to the director's encouragement?). [/QUOTE]

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