Alec Baldwin has something to say about Gillian Anderson using her American accent while accepting a Golden Globe on Sunday for “The Crown,” a play seemingly confusing to fans of his British work.
“Change the accent? Sounds … fascinating,” Baldwin, 62, tweeted on wednesday.
He was just one of many who debated Anderson’s normal Yank voice, with some hardly able to believe that the 52-year-old Chicago-born X-Files star was even American.
“It simply came to my notice then @GillianA it doesn’t really have an English accent in real life ” wrote a fan, with another addition, “I feel very uncomfortable knowing that Gillian Anderson is American and not British.”
Anderson took a long time to perfect his British accent, as he spent several years living in London, and has said in the past that he often slips between accents.
“Even over the phone, my accent will change,” he told the British newspaper The Telegraph in 2009.
Baldwin’s decision to put Anderson’s accent is possibly an attempt by the actor to shrewdly defend his wife Hilaria Baldwin.
The six-year-old mother, 37, was called in December for her fluctuating Spanish accent shortly before admitting her real name was Hillary. She was also raised in Boston, unlike Mallorca, Spain, as it deliberately made people believe.
More recently, the couple surprised the audience by welcoming child number six just five months after a son, Eduardo, joined their offspring.