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What did they learn from playing mirror universe versions of themselves?

By Alan Sepinwall Saturday, Jul 30, 2011 9:00 PM

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Time for the last of the video interviews I conducted with the "Fringe" cast at Comic-Con, this time a duet between John Noble and Anna Torv.

Here you get to enjoy them sounding very Australian(*) as they discuss what (if anything) they learned about their regular characters from playing their mirror universe versions, how the show and Walter and Olivia's dynamic will be changed now that Peter has been erased from existence, and more.

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(*) As Walter Bishop, Noble does this amusing upper-crust Boston accent that always sounds like it's going to veer into being purely English, but I think Torv does one of the better invisibly American accents of any foreign-born actor on TV. If she's not in the Damian Lewis/Hugh Laurie class, I'd say she's at the top of the next tier.

Hope you enjoyed these. As with the "Chuck" interviews, they're all short (with the exception of one set of interviews I'll be posting at some point soon, Comic-Con isn't structured to allow anyone to have a long conversation), but I tried to get to the heart of what interested me about each performer/character, especially given that no one can talk about what's going to happen with Peter.

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Alan Sepinwall has been reviewing television since the mid-'90s, first for Tony Soprano's hometown paper, The Star-Ledger, and now for HitFix. His new book, "The Revolution Was Televised," about the last 15 years of TV drama, is for sale at Amazon. He can be reached at sepinwall@hitfix.com
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    passing

    Good questions, Both Anna Torv and John Noble are great,amazing actors and wonderful people. I am so pleased that Anna Torv finally gets the recognition, she was great from the start, people failed to see that, a groundbreaking character, and season 3 was really carried by Anna Torv. I agree with what you say about how good she gets the American accent and then with all the different characters and on top of that Bell.
    That she does not get the Emmy, is only because her american competitors were overwhelmed by all that talent I guess.

    July 30, 2011 at 9:38PM EST Reply to Comment
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    Monterey Jack

    "Are you *tripping*, Agent Dunham...?"

    July 30, 2011 at 10:24PM EST Reply to Comment
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    GuanoLad

    You really think Hugh Laurie does a good accent? I think it's horribly transparent, because he does it so deliberately and carefully.

    I think the best US accents are in The Mentalist, by Simon Baker and Owain Yeoman.

    July 30, 2011 at 10:59PM EST Reply to Comment
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    Mulderism

    Any Aussie or New Zealander can pull off an american accent. Lots of Brits too (Jamie Bamber). Not a big feat.

    Torv is nothing special. I think any actress could have done her role just as well.

    July 31, 2011 at 12:48AM EST Reply to Comment
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      Rob i completely disagree. I think she is doing a great job and I can't imagine anyone else playing Olivia.

      July 31, 2011 at 1:01AM EST
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      Rolf While I agree that lots of Aussies seem to be able to pull off the accent, I definitely disagree about Bamber being able to.
      Granted, I'm only basing it off of BSG, but I thought his accent was pretty off.
      I think Idris Elba did a damn fine accent on The Wire.

      July 31, 2011 at 2:06PM EST
    • Jeff_avatar_2_talkback_profile

      Mulderism Good example with Idris Elba. I forgot McNulty too (Dominic West).

      For Bamber I saw an interview with him and I was amazed he was British.

      July 31, 2011 at 5:39PM EST

    • I should be patriotic, and nod vigorously but that's not quite true. Any Australian or Kiwi actor who had a lot of good voice training, a decent ear, and theatre (plenty of US and British plays) in their background can pull off a decent accent. OTOH, from what I've seen of 'The Iron Lady' (admittedly not much) Meryl Streep is making a good fist of Margaret Thatcher's voice.

      August 1, 2011 at 3:50PM EST

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