“Many
of
yall
are
echoing
what
I
thought
as
soon
as
I
heard
the
dad
speak,”
she
wrote
in
an
Instagram
Stories
post
Feb.
24.
“‘Damn,
he
sounds
like Thomas
Ravenel!’
That
dialect
is
NOT
North
Carolina.
It’s
old
Charleston.”
Given
that
the
fictional
Ratliff
family
hails
from
Durham,
N.C.,
Jason
previously
cited
the
city
as
the
inspiration
for
his
unique—and
polarizing—onscreen
drawl,
insisting
the
local
accent
is
“very
specific.”
“It
sounds
a
lot
like
the
other
Southern
accents,
but
it’s
got
two
vowels
in
it
that
sound
like
upper
class
English,”
the
U.K.
native
explained
in
an
HBO
TikTok
video
Feb.
15.
“So,
it
is
weird
because
nobody
listening
is
used
to
it,
only
the
people
who
live
locally.”
Meanwhile,
Jason’s
onscreen
wife
Parker
Posey,
who
grew
up
in
the
American
south,
pulled
from
personal
experience
to
achieve
what
she
described
as
a
“snotty
effect.”
“I’ve
met
some
really
wealthy
people
and
Southerners
that
are
almost
affected
so
that’s
what
I
did,”
she
told
Variety
in
an
interview
published
Feb.
17,
adding,
“It
was
so
fun
to
play.”
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