Boston Strangler star Keira Knightley explains why the film's director Matt Ruskin banned her and her co-stars from doing a Boston accent.
Keira Knightley says she was banned from doing a Boston accent on the set of Boston Strangler. Hulu’s new true crime thriller may be based on the case of the real life Boston Strangler, but the movie focuses less on the killer and more on the two female journalists who broke the story. Knightley plays reporter Loretta McLaughlin, who teams with Carrie Coon’s Jean Cole to tirelessly follow the Strangler case, even in the face of sexism and corruption.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Though Boston Strangler is based on a real-life serial killer story, there’s one detail that was left purposely unrealistic when the film was being shot. As Knightley revealed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Boston Strangler director Matt Ruskin expressly forbade her and her co-stars from trying to do a Boston accent, despite the movie being set in Boston.
I wanted to do the Boston accent. The director is from Boston. If you weren’t from the street that the character was from in Boston, you were not allowed to do the Boston accent. So every single actor went in going “Boston accent! It’s our time!” But no, we were not allowed. So it’s a standard American accent.The Boston Accent Has Defeated A Lot of Very Good Actors Many critically acclaimed actors have tried to nail the Boston accent in movies and on television, and many have failed.
Given how brutal Boston residents can be when actors try and fail to do their specific regional accent, it’s probably wise that Boston Strangler director Ruskin elected to avoid the problem altogether. For her part, Knightley seems disappointed that she didn’t get to try her hand on arguably the most perilous of all accents.
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