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11/08/2023 09:49

Subject: Re:Alec and Hilaria - Reality TV Show

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Anonymous wrote:The Salma Hayek accent thing and Hilary Baldwin are extremely different.

Salma was born in and grew up in Mexico. Also, her dad is Lebanese but had been in Mexico a long time, was a well known businessman and politician there. It's not like he'd just immigrated from Lebanon when she was born. Her mom is Spanish, not Lebanese. Salma attended a private Catholic school in the US from 12-18, but she spent holidays and summers in Mexico with her family. She went to a Mexican university. She then started her career in Mexico and all her early roles were in Mexican telenovelas and films, all Spanish-speaking. It was only once she was fairly successful in Mexican cinema that she got her first Hollywood roles and wound up immigrating to the US.

I am fairly certain that Salma has made an effort to retain her accent after years of living in the US. Yes, it is part of her brand and there are good financial reasons to retain it. This is SUPER common in Hollywood and not restricted to someone from Mexico. Matthew McConaughey has intentionally maintained his accent. So has Jodi Foster. Tina Fey has a very recognizable way of speaking that includes some Pennsylvania vowels and pronunciations. All of these people recognize their voice is part of their public persona and even though they have spent years living among people who do NOT talk like that, they've held onto their accents. My dad is Texan but hasn't lived there in 50 years. He still has a Texas accent.

But Hilary did not naturally develop a Spanish accent growing up in Spain. She has an American accent because she grew up in Boston, and then she decided, as an adult, to adopt a Spanish accent and change her name to Hilaria. She is not even very good at retaining her accent -- as many have pointed out, it comes and goes in interviews and sometimes it's really heavy ("how you say?") and other times she just sounds American (in the Romper video, about 70% of it, there is no accent, and only the brief portion where she speaks Spanish to her kids is the accent even pronounced).

Salma Hayek is a Mexican immigrant. Hilary Baldwin is an American grifter. Let's not pretend these things are the same.

Not to derail, but it's Jodie, and she was born and raised in Los Angeles. Are you thinking of someone else? Maybe another petite Oscar winner, Holly Hunter, who was born in Georgia?

She still has a very specific and recognizable way of speaking that is probably, to some extent, a put on. But yeah, Holly Hunter would be another example of someone who has retained a very identifiable regional accent despite not having lived there for decades.

The point is that it's one thing for someone to retain their actual accent from their youth in order to maintain their brand as an actor. It's something else entirely to just pretend you are from another country, adopt an accent you've never had before, and change your name in order to convince people you are an exotic foreigner. None of the actors mentioned (including Salma Hayek) adopted their accents as adults in order to make money. And Salma is a native Spanish speaker, unlike Hilary.

All of this is a distraction from the fact that Hilary is a nut job who has faked her entire backstory and persona in order to land a rich husband, and everyone knows it, but both she and her husband maintain the ruse anyway. It's crazy!