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Originally Posted by dworth
I'm British and I loved 'Frasier' when they showed it over here and watched it religiously every Friday on Channel 4. Frasier was very funny and witty and had clever scripts except... they had a British character. Daphne was supposed to be from Manchester in the north of England but was played by an actress from the south of England who couldn't do the accent. (British accents and dialects can vary enormously even over very short distances, drive an hour in any direction and people will speak differently).
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Interestingly, it was actually Martin Crane played by John Mahoney who was originally from Manchester/Blackpool.
The miscasting bothers me too. I don't like when an American plays a Brit and an Australian/Brit plays an American. They sound strained and lose something in their acting abilities.