Kyra Sedgewick Appreciation Day

by LDF
7/16/06

I was reluctant to watch "The Closer" because I am tired of fake Southern accents (Tom Hanks in The Green Mile; Susan Sarandon in most anything—though we love her; would go on if my barbecue and collared greens weren’t burning). I couldn’t resist a tough broad and within a couple of episodes, I forgot that Kyra Sedgewick even had an accent. Only an amazing actress could turn another police show into such a success. As an aside, Kyra Sedgewick stole “Twelfth Night” out from under Helen Hunt—then, the Big Thing—eight years ago.

Now, if I could turn to not-as-successful celebrity accents:

The Dreaded Steven Seagal's Brooklyn accent in Out for Justice--though his beret gives it all a French twist.

Billy Crudup in Stage Beauty (Claire Danes was, like, so much better).

Keanu Reeves does British…or something in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Hugh Laurie’s American accent in “House” is dead-on but we still want to smack him for being so smug about it.

Ralph Fiennes’s American accent in Maid in Manhattan. Oh wait, no, we didn’t watch that movie.

Russell Crowe in anything where he plays an American, i.e. The Insider where he went from Brooklyn to Connecticut Wasp to Southern.

Julia Roberts in Mary Reilly, but we can’t talk too much about this because we want to join her knitting circle someday. Especially won’t mention her off-key singing in Everyone Says I Love You. It's okay, Julia. I once took a semester of Modern Dance. I did crazy leaps across a gym for three months.

To bring this full-circle, did you know Kyra Sedgewick and Julia Roberts played sisters in Something to Talk About?