{"id":11935,"date":"2025-01-03T00:56:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T00:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/?p=11935"},"modified":"2025-01-03T03:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T03:01:10","slug":"11935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/?p=11935","title":{"rendered":"Noticed Something Weird About the Accent in the Yellowstone Finale? Here\u2019s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Does that accent at the end of the\u00a0<em>Yellowstone<\/em>\u00a0finale sound funny to you?? There is a good reason why.<\/p>\n<p>In the\u00a0<em>Yellowstone<\/em>\u00a0Season 5 finale, Elsa Dutton\u2019s\u00a0 (Isabel May) narration marks the end of the Dutton family\u2019s time on the ranch, but the accent has some real-life Southerners scratching their heads.<\/p>\n<p>Elsa\u2019s accent in this narration actually was a \u201clearned\u201d\u00a0accent. May, who isn\u2019t from the South, had to master a Tennessee accent to authentically portray Elsa, with the help of studying\u00a0Philip Seymour Hoffman\u2019s Southern preacher character in\u00a0<em>Cold Mountain.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is where her voice came from in the\u00a0<em>Yellowstone<\/em>\u00a0finale, concluding Taylor Sheridan\u2019s prophecy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c141 years ago, my father was told of this valley, and here\u2019s where we stayed. Seven generations. My father was told they would come for this land, and he promised to return it. Nowhere was that promise written. It faded with my father\u2019s death, but somehow lived in the spirit of this place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the hit\u00a0<em>Yellowstone<\/em>\u00a0prequel\u00a0<em>1883<\/em>, Isabel May portrays Elsa Dutton, a young woman from Tennessee who travels West with her family to settle in Montana. The Duttons eventually establish the Yellowstone ranch.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/1883Series\/comments\/rzn3j5\/isabel_may_aka_elsa_dutton_does_a_lousy_southern\/?rdt=50445\">Reddit thread<\/a>\u00a0started by someone frustrated with her accent has many Southerners coming to her defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe does no wrong in my eyes. \ud83d\ude02\u201d commented one user coming to her defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like her accent just fine. I am a Tennessean and I can tell you that once you hit the Cumberland Plateau straight over to the Smokies, old, old families (think very late 1700s North Carolina Territory) talk like that!\u201d said another user in agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had wondered if the Southern accent in Tennessee was different then than it is now. I\u2019m thinking that it has changed.\u201d agreed another user.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the reaction:<\/p>\n<p>People may be torn on the accent, but we can all agree we\u00a0love\u00a0<em>Yellowstone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Does that accent at the end of the\u00a0Yellowstone\u00a0finale sound funny to you?? There is a good reason why. In the\u00a0Yellowstone\u00a0Season 5 finale, Elsa Dutton\u2019s\u00a0 (Isabel May) narration marks the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[582],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-yellowstone-verse","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11935"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12173,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11935\/revisions\/12173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news4you.fit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}