Where is Jerome supposed to be from?
In Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac, Shia Lebouf plays a character called Jerome, who has an unidentifiable accent.
I don't know if he is supposed to be English, but as an Englishman myself I can confirm it definately isn't an English accent. It's not even a dialect, it sounds like a South-African Australian Hybrid.
Is this intentional? is there any evidence anywhere to confirm or deny that the character is supposed to be anything other than English?
At my cinema we had 12 people walk out of the film last night, 9 of them citing his performance as a point of ridicule meaning they could no longer take the film seriously. Ouch.
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I had a quick browse on the official website and looked at a few interviews with the cast members, but no one ever actually says where he is from.
I am pretty convinced however that he is supposed to be English (especially given the amount of websites/videos mocking him for his attempt at an English accent) and so I think it's just another example of an actor getting an accent horribly, horribly wrong (see Russell Crowe in Robin Hood).
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Wikipedia's entry lists Shia as Jerôme Morris, taking into account the spelling suggests the person to be originary from France.
Jérôme(French), Jerome (English)
Also this entry may suggest the origin of Jerome:
It’s not exactly a spoiler to note that the main male part in “Nymphomaniac,” the person who poses the threat of falling in love with Joe or being loved by her goes by the very French name of Jerôme — and that the child Joe and Jerôme will have together, the proof of their love, is called Marcel, also the first name of a certain French novelist.
Based on this, I would suggest Shia's accent to be french.
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