{"id":5384,"date":"2016-08-26T15:21:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T07:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/26\/dev-patel-does-a-mean-australian-accent-in-new-trailer-for-lion\/"},"modified":"2016-08-26T15:21:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T07:21:47","slug":"dev-patel-does-a-mean-australian-accent-in-new-trailer-for-lion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/08\/26\/dev-patel-does-a-mean-australian-accent-in-new-trailer-for-lion\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev Patel does a mean Australian accent in new trailer for 'Lion'"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Australian accent is difficult to master, and attempts to handle it by international actors have been pretty ham-fisted. We mean famously ham-fisted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So when British actor Dev Patel, from Slumdog Millionaire<\/em> and TV series Skins<\/em>, nails the Aussie accent with relative ease? That’s something worth taking notice of.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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SEE ALSO: White, straight, and on screen; report details diversity on TV<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Patel plays Indian Australian businessman Saroo Brierley in an upcoming film called Lion, who <\/em>travels back to Kolkata to track down his biological mother and brother after being separated for 25 years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Accents aside, this film also features Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara; and is set to be released in January 2017. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Lion<\/a>, Dev Patel<\/a>, Australia<\/a>, Movies<\/a>, and Entertainment<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian accent is difficult to master, and attempts to handle it by international actors have been pretty ham-fisted. We mean famously ham-fisted. So when British actor Dev Patel, from Slumdog Millionaire and TV series Skins, nails the Aussie accent … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}