Does Juliet use an Australian accent?
Chapman: Jill’s mother had actually been born in England, so Juliet didn’t want to pick up a very broad Australian accent. Also, in that era in Australia, good elocution was something middle-class people aspired to. Juliet and her dialogue coach worked on an accent that had just a slight flattening of the odd vowel. It was a very subtle thing. The film is at times lyrical, charming, and bleak. Did you give a lot of thought to the different mix of effects that you wanted to have on the audience? Chapman: We did think about that a lot, because one of the things we were concerned about from the very beginning was that we wanted the audience to be prepared to ride into the ground with Eve. You mean see her breakdown? Chapman: Yes. We wanted the audience to be prepared to go the distance with her. So in character terms one of the things we didn’t want the audience to say was, “Get over it, luv!” Part of the reason why it was important for us that the film look beautiful was that we wanted p
