Millie Bobby Brown responds to criticism of her accent: ‘I’m trying my finest’

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Millie Bobby Brown has responded to followers who questioned the obvious loss of her British accent in interviews, saying: “I’m trying my best”.

Last week, some followers of the actor have been left confused and bewildered by Brown’s accent throughout her look on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Viewers mentioned they have been distracted by the disappearance of her previously distinguished British accent.

The 20-year-old moved to Florida when she was eight, however had appeared to preserve the accent of her early childhood in Bournemouth in earlier interviews.

Now, talking to TikTok interviewer Max Balegde, Brown has supplied her perspective.

“I’m an actor,” mentioned the Stranger Things and Enola Holmes star. “I grew up in the public eye. I grew up in America. I come to set and I’m an actor and I adapt, and so I want to mimic other people!”

“I can’t help that when I’m around my fiancé, or when I’m with people like Jimmy Fallon who have a very American accent, I wanna replicate it!” she mentioned. “And now I’m in England, I wanna replicate that [accent]! I don’t do it intentional, and I’m sorry if it offends you, okay? But listen, I’m trying my best! I’m trying my best.”

Brown is engaged to Jake Bongiovi, 21, the son of rock star Jon Bon Jovi.

While showing on The Tonight Show Brown mentioned her underwater proposal by Bongiovi, and appeared to swap between accents, inflicting some followers to comment she sounded “Australian” as she flipped between American and British.

The Emmy-nominated actor informed the viewers how her and Bongiovi received their diving licences collectively, and that he’d felt it was the proper alternative to suggest whereas they have been on vacation.

“So we go under, and we’re many metres down and he gives me like, a shell. And I turn it over and it’s a ring,” she informed Fallon.

She described how she put the ring on her finger earlier than it slid off and “plummeted” deep into the water, prompting her new fiancé to swim after it.

Brown can presently be seen in Netflix’s Damsel, through which she speaks with a British accent.

In a two-star assessment of the movie for The Independent, chief movie critic Clarisse Loughrey recommended that Netflix “may have been better off just making Enola Holmes 3.”

The closing season of Stranger Things is anticipated to land on Netflix in 2024.

While the collection creators, sibling duo Matt and Ross Duffer, introduced in early 2022 that the present would conclude with a fifth season, manufacturing was halted for about seven months due to the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in 2023.