Even Johnny Depp in Black Mass had some early practice and mixed results playing a boston drug smuggler in 2001’s Blow. In Black Mass, he’s only dabbled in the accent a South Boston crime Boss, James Whitey Bulger.
Jesse Plemons and Benedict Cumberbatch are other actors that ace their performance in Black Mass .
Jesse Plemons sounds like a local fresh off a redline trade. Benedict Cumberbatch is British and gives his Boston accent a JFK sound. Although Kennedy’s blend of Harvard meets working-class Irish isn’t the average Bostonian are really talks.
The Boston accents aren’t just defined by exaggerated honks. The Boston native speaker don’t just drop “R”s, but they also insert “R”s to connect words with soft vowel sounds like Matt Damon does in Good Will Hunting. Missing the “R” sounds is one of the gaps that Julianne Moore made while playing Nancy Donovan on 30 Rock.
New Englanders can twist their vowel especially that short “O” sound in words like “Not” , it’s tough to fake.