Tammin Sursok has addressed curiosity over her combined Aussie-American accent, admitting she “selected” to lose her pure approach of talking.
The previous Residence and Away star instructed The Jimmy & Nath Presentshedding her Australian accent was an intentional determination.
“I used to be really skilled to love, lose it for a job that I would spent 4 years doing,” she instructed the radio hosts.
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Explaining that she stored slipping again into her Australian accent whereas filming a challenge within the States, Sursok says the choice was made in an effort to maintain her job.
“I used to be going to get fired and I used to be going to lose my inexperienced card,” she mentioned.
The challenge in query was her position as Colleen Carlton within the in style cleaning soap opera The Younger And The Stressed.
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The actor had moved to the States to construct her profession and did not need her accent to danger her probability for achievement.
“I really selected to lose it for a job,” she mentioned.
“I had left every little thing to go to America after which, I simply did not wish to get fired as a result of my accent stored popping out.”
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Sursok can be not alone in her determination to ditch the Aussie twang, with Morgan Evans not too long ago telling 9honey why he ditches his ‘unnatural’ Australian accent to sing
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Nonetheless, Sursok’s combined Australian-American accent has obtained heavy criticism from fellow Australians.
She told reporters final 12 months that “individuals get very upset about it”, then clarified it was “simply Australians” who had been bothered by her altering accent.
Whereas it might have irked some, her option to ditch the accent and save her profession appears to have paid off.
After her time on The Younger And The Stressed, Sursok moved on to numerous profitable roles together with recurring appearances on Hannah Montana and as Jenna Marshall on the extremely in style Fairly Little Liars.
At the moment, Sursok is focussed on her new podcast which is because of drop quickly.
