If you think about an actress who has convincingly portrayed characters with distinctive accents, you probably think of Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice, The Iron Lady, etc.). But how about Kate Winslet, who has frequently dropped her proper British accent to play, for example, a German woman during wartime (The Reader), an Australian returning home to her small town (The Dressmaker), and a Polish-American business woman (Steve Jobs). Do you know why you don't even remember her characters' accents in these movies? They were so perfect that there was no distraction or indeed reason to bring up the subject. Well, in Mare of Easttown, the regional American accent from an area of Pennsylvania is dead on! Again. And combined with her interaction with Jean Smart (who proved she could handle another regional American accent on the Designing Women '80s TV show), who believably plays her mother here, it's another masterful turn of voice & phrase for Ms. Winslet. She won an Emmy for playing the title character in a previous HBO miniseries, Mildred Pierce, so the Emmy voters better be ready to sharpen their pencils once again for her this time!
Review of Mare of Easttown
