Julia Garner said filming "Ozark " and "Inventing Anna " at the same time made her mix up accents.- "I kind of was forgetting how I sounded," the actress told Indiewire in a new interview.
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"I kind of was forgetting how I sounded," Garner, who plays Ruth Langmore on "Ozark" and stars as real-life scammer
"There were certain things that if I was talking it would be a combination of Ruth and Anna," the actress added.
For Ruth, Garner puts on a Southern accent. But Sorokin's accent was difficult to nail down, since it's a "hybrid" of different inflections, according to the actress.
"I was like, 'What is her accent?' I didn't even know what her accent was," the "Ozark" star said of figuring out how she'd speak for her "Inventing Anna" role. "This is a girl who said that she was German, and people believed it, but she actually was born in Russia, so she's not going to have a Russian accent. And then she probably learned English in the British way because she's European [and] they don't learn American English."
Garner previously revealed that the real-life Sorokin wanted to hear Garner's accent for the new series when the actress visited her in prison.
"She's very gentle. But then her voice gets less soft-spoken when she wants something," Garner said of Sorokin, who was convicted of defrauding financial institutions of thousands of dollars in 2017.
"She's like, 'Please, let me hear it.' It got very meta," Garner revealed. Garner ended up repeating whatever Sorokin said in the accent she'd been working on with her dialect coach.