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Why does Princess Leia have a British accent only when she’s talking to Grand Moff Tarkin? Carrie Fisher has told the behind the scenes story, about how she was simply nervous to be acting with Peter Cushing, and that anxiety manifested in mimicking his accent. But the book Bloodline by Claudia Gray gave us an in-universe answer as well. Leia meets another character who she notes, “Had the same sort of aristocratic accent Grand Moff Tarkin had spoken in, the one so many senior Imperial officers affected, the one she’d mocked when she and Tarkin last stood face-to-face.” So the nineteen year old Leia Organa was simply mirroring the Grand Moff in an attempt to get under his skin.
Why does Princess Leia have a British accent only when she’s talking to Grand Moff Tarkin? Carrie Fisher has told the behind the scenes story, about how she was simply nervous to be acting with Peter Cushing, and that anxiety manifested in mimicking his accent. But the book Bloodline by Claudia Gray gave us an in-universe answer as well. Leia meets another character who she notes, “Had the same sort of aristocratic accent Grand Moff Tarkin had spoken in, the one so many senior Imperial officers affected, the one she’d mocked when she and Tarkin last stood face-to-face.” So the nineteen year old Leia Organa was simply mirroring the Grand Moff in an attempt to get under his skin.
