Millie Bobby Brown hits out at backlash round her accent as she explains why it retains altering

Millie Bobby Brown has defined why her accent retains altering, addressing the backlash she has known as ‘accent-gate’.

The 21-year-old British actor, most identified for her roles in Stranger Issues, Enola Holmes, and Damsel, spoke out in a brand new podcast look.

Bobby Brown, who not too long ago revealed that isn’t even her actual identify, spoke out on the SmartLess podcast whereas selling her upcoming Netflix film The Electrical State.

The actor has been unafraid in current weeks to talk out about criticism she has been receiving, beforehand hitting out at journalists and media personalities who had been crucial of her look.



Now, nonetheless, she’s hit out at folks commenting on her altering accent.

She mentioned of the backlash round it on the podcast look: “That was such an enormous factor for a minute.

“I truly name it the ‘accent-gate’ as a result of it’s so irritating as a result of that was in all places.

“Like for a second, everybody was speaking about my accent, and so they had an actual drawback about it.”

She went on to clarify why her accent has been ‘altering’, and the explanation makes excellent sense.

She mentioned: “I used to be like, ‘Guys, I’m married to an American.’”

Bobby Brown married Jake Bongiovi, the son of Bon Jovi singer John Bongiovi, in Might 2024 in a ceremony officiated by her Stranger Issues co-star Matthew Modine.

She went on to say that, since she is usually round her husband’s household, who’re American, her accent adjustments.

She mentioned: “Once I’m round his household, I instantly go into, like, an American accent. However then I used to be simply in England, after which the second I hear my mother and pa’s accent, I simply go proper again.”

“You need me to play these characters, however you count on me to not morph into folks.

“What I hear is what I do. It’s all a part of it.”

The actor has lived a multicultural life already regardless of being solely 21, having been born in Spain, grown up in England, after which spent a lot of her childhood on the set of Stranger Issues in America.

Her accent was addressed beforehand in an look on The Tonight Present With Jimmy Fallon, wherein she advised the SNL alumnus: “I can’t assist that once I’m round my fiancé, or once I’m with folks like Jimmy Fallon, who’ve a really American accent, I wanna replicate it.”

The actor’s latest movie, The Electrical State, is ready to launch this Friday on Netflix.

Regardless of the all star forged, together with herself, Chris Pratt, and Stanley Tucci, and the huge £245 million finances, critiques have been lower than stellar.

The film opened to a Rotten Tomatoes rating of simply 22% with The Impartial’s one star assessment calling the movie ‘fully incoherent’.