Elle Fanning was teased for her Norwegian accent in new film

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00:00Every time I would think that I would, like, nail it, you know, I'd look to them and be like,

00:03yeah, yeah, and they're like, ha, ha, ha, ha, they're, like, laughing at me, like, oh, what?

00:07You play an American actor in the film who gets cast in a Norwegian film, and so,

00:12and your character is trying to decide whether or not to, like, use a Norwegian accent, so in the

00:17film, which is very similar to what you as an actor are doing, because then you have to play

00:20an actor. It's very meta. It's very meta, because then you're playing an actor who's trying a

00:23Norwegian accent, and, of course, you're surrounded by Norwegians. I am. And was that extra stressful

00:28to do the accent in front of them? It was a bit. Yeah. Yeah. And every time I would think that I

00:34would, like, nail it, you know, I'd look to them and be like, yeah, yeah, and they're, like, ha, ha,

00:38they're, like, laughing at me, like, oh, what? I thought I did it, you know? But it's much like

00:44my character, she's almost doing, like, the most cliched version of a Norwegian action. It's just,

00:49it's a little bit off, so, and I would have Joakim, our director, I would have him repeat the lines

00:54to me. I'd say, okay, can you say it? And then I will try to repeat it back to get the accent right,

01:00but, yeah, they still laughed at me. Yeah.