Should Jill or shouldn't Jill?

[Lu_valient]

There's no reason for her not to have an accent. Lewis was English and wrote The Chronicles of Narnia to sound English. It wouldn't really make sense for Jill to say the dialogue, slang, and expressions in anything but an English accent.

Lewis was actually Irish, he was born and raised in Ireland.
CharlotteRose, I like the idea of a moral like that!

[LessThanGold]

So now CS Lewis was thinking of people getting teased for accents when he wrote SC? *sighs* Well, it's better than most of what they did to VDT, anyway... and I suppose it could work. I do admit, it does sound interesting- particulary because Lewis was born in Ireland.

But an English accent is definitely the best option, at least in my opinion. There does not seem to be much point in it being otherwise. If you want to make Jill American or Irish, then why not make Digory and Polly and even the Pevensies that? (Oh, I do hope I'm not giving anyone ideas...) Why does everyone choose Jill for this discussion?

*Eyes group of her preteen peers* Nevermind, I already know...
...Has Douglas Gresham ever commented on this topic?

[JillPoleFan565]

because a lot i mean a lot of american girls want to play jill pole and can't fake a british accent so they think jill should have an american one.

[Turkish Delight]

I know I am one of those girls that can't fake an accent. My sister said I can but not well enough to fool anyone. But being Jill Pole is one of those never going to happen long lost dreams of mine. Anybody els out there like that?
Yea can"t aford an agent and never been in a movie sigh.

[Valiant]

Well if they find a GREAT American actress for Jill then I guess they use that solution. But really, truly, I want them to go with an English accent....
But an Irish accent? Now that might be interesting actually!

In all honestly, I don't care who Jill is as long as she acts well and looks like she fit the character enough.