{"id":68679,"date":"2025-04-11T10:26:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T14:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=68679"},"modified":"2025-04-29T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T14:27:44","slug":"jason-issacs-replies-to-fans-who-werent-satisfied-with-his-north-carolina-accent-in-season-3-of-the-white-lotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/jason-issacs-replies-to-fans-who-werent-satisfied-with-his-north-carolina-accent-in-season-3-of-the-white-lotus\/68679\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Issacs replies to fans who weren\u2019t satisfied with his North Carolina accent in season 3 of The White Lotus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The White Lotus<\/em> season 3 gave fans plenty to talk about, but few things stirred up as much chatter as Jason Isaacs\u2019 portrayal of Tim Ratliff\u2014especially his character\u2019s prosthetic genitals and distinctive accent. While social media buzzed about the explicit detail, many were just as focused (and confused) about the accent Isaacs used for his Southern character, who hails from Durham, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent appearance on <em>The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon<\/em>, Isaacs leaned into the absurdity of the situation with humor. Joking about the accent and all the attention on his prosthetics, he quipped, \u201cI was wearing a prosthetic tongue to do the accent. Durham, North Carolina, is hard to get your lips around.\u201d He doubled down on the joke, adding that his real tongue is \u201csmall, green, shriveled, and shaped like a pretzel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Getting serious for a moment, the <em>Harry Potter<\/em> actor explained why his Southern drawl may have thrown off some viewers. The Durham accent is quite specific, he said\u2014it doesn\u2019t sound like the accents in neighboring regions like South Carolina or Charleston. Isaacs pointed out that while some vowels in the Durham dialect may resemble certain British tones, that doesn\u2019t make it wrong or out of place.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, he noticed people online criticizing his accent, with many claiming he didn\u2019t sound Southern\u2014or even confusing it for an Australian or English accent. \u201cA lot of people were saying, \u2018He doesn\u2019t sound Texan!\u2019 And I\u2019m like, of course not\u2014I\u2019m not supposed to be from Texas!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Isaacs took it all in stride, especially after some folks from Durham reached out and said his accent reminded them of their own dads. That validation seems to have put him at ease now that the season has wrapped, and thankfully, he won\u2019t have to deal with weekly critiques of either his onscreen anatomy or his accent anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White Lotus season 3 gave fans plenty to talk about, but few things stirred up as much chatter as\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":68680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[26253],"class_list":["post-68679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-jason-issacs"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}