The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

[Jedman67]

Okay, so Variety is reporting that Scorsese of all people is voicing Ardennian. In my defense, Favreau and Scorsese have the exact same accent, since they're literally both from the same neighborhood in Queens! I still have hopes that it's Rio's brother or something along those lines. Either way, I think we can safely say that an Ardennian accent is now canonically a Queens accent. I don't know why that tickles me, but it does!
Speaking of still having hope; the city planet has to be Nar Shaddaa, right?! I mean there's shots of what's clearly Nal Hutta so they at least go to the same system in this movie!

Most Queens people I know don't have quite the distinctive accent.

 

[The Wormhole]

Also works with the Knives Out films!

Spoiler: About that

I like the way the Honest Trailer for Wake Up Dead Man put it. "Look at the first three actors listed in the credits. Remove Daniel Craig and the one playing the character who assists him in the investigation, and there's your murderer."

 

[Christopher]

Spoiler: About that

I like the way the Honest Trailer for Wake Up Dead Man put it. "Look at the first three actors listed in the credits. Remove Daniel Craig and the one playing the character who assists him in the investigation, and there's your murderer."

If IMDb's credit orders are correct, that works for the first and third films but not the second.

 

[Ithekro]

I seem to recall the Mando episode about the malfunctioning droids. That one has three celebrities in it outside regulars or returning characters.

 

[The Wormhole]

I seem to recall the Mando episode about the malfunctioning droids. That one has three celebrities in it outside regulars or returning characters.

And one of those celebrities did turn out to be the villain.

 

[Crewman6]

If it was, it would have embraced TROS.

I said you were easily amused, I didn't say you were brain-damaged.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Spoiler: About that

I like the way the Honest Trailer for Wake Up Dead Man put it. "Look at the first three actors listed in the credits. Remove Daniel Craig and the one playing the character who assists him in the investigation, and there's your murderer."

There's another layer which I'm surprised Honest Trailers didn't comment on:

Spoiler

All three are also MCU actors. Mind you, Norton and Close were one-offs and they weren't the only ones in each movie, but it's still true.

 

[Starkers]

There's another layer which I'm surprised Honest Trailers didn't comment on:

Spoiler

All three are also MCU actors. Mind you, Norton and Close were one-offs and they weren't the only ones in each movie, but it's still true.

Well Norton is the star of his film, but even so in Glass Onion terms obviously Bautista is a much deeper MCU cut. Close is just a side character and again in terms of Wake Up Dead Man it's kinda MCU heavy anyway with Brolin and Renner plus Jeffrey Wright and even Washington (given she was in the second Fantastic Four film) and Haden Church (Spiderman 3).

Sorry I did have a point I think the killer being the best known actor in the film has some legitimacy, the MCU link goes more to show how pervasive MCU films have become in the last 15+ years)

 

[Reverend]

Most Queens people I know don't have quite the distinctive accent.

I've never met anyone from there so I can't speak to that, but they are both from Flushing* specifically. I can only assume based on this sample set of two that it's an accent particular to that neighborhood. Maybe they both played it up a little for the role?

* Rhetorical question: Who named it that and why, exactly?!

That trailer was a ton of fun, really looking forward to the movie.

I could have sworn we saw Embo in live action before, but I guess not.

You might be thinking of Cad Bane, the other Clone Wars bounty hunter with an enthusiasm for wearing big hats.

 

[Set Harth]

* Rhetorical question: Who named it that and why, exactly?!

I have an idea...

 

[Mage]

I said you were easily amused, I didn't say you were brain-damaged.

Considering the way you usually talk to people, I would have assumed the later, not the former.

 

[Jedman67]

I've never met anyone from there so I can't speak to that, but they are both from Flushing* specifically. I can only assume based on this sample set of two that it's an accent particular to that neighborhood. Maybe they both played it up a little for the role?

* Rhetorical question: Who named it that and why, exactly?!

Flushing encompasses a large part of Central Queens, based on nothing more than an assumption I'd guess they are from Forest Hills or Fresh Meadows.

Both neighborhoods were solid middle class (a bit more expensive nowadays lol) and both are heavily Jewish but not (at the time) significantly Orthodox.

I live in Queens myself so this is pretty close to home

 

[Reverend]

Flushing encompasses a large part of Central Queens, based on nothing more than an assumption I'd guess they are from Forest Hills or Fresh Meadows.

Both neighborhoods were solid middle class (a bit more expensive nowadays lol) and both are heavily Jewish but not (at the time) significantly Orthodox.

I live in Queens myself so this is pretty close to home

According to google, Favreau is indeed from Forest Hills, but Scorsese actually grew up on the other side of the East River in Little Italy. Apparently he was only born in Flushing, and his family moved a few times when he was a kid, but Elizabeth Street in Manhattan was the main fixture.

So maybe Scorsese is just imitating Favreau's accent? I've honestly not seen enough interview footage of Scorsese to get a sense of what his natural accent sounds like, assuming my ear could even tell the difference!

Either way, it does feel like a conscious choice to make Ardennians sound like New Yorkers.

 

[Christopher]

* Rhetorical question: Who named it that and why, exactly?!

"Flushing" is an Anglicization of the Dutch "Vlissingen," which was the original name of the settlement, after a town in the Netherlands. It dates from the 1600s, a century or two before the word "flush" began to be used in the plumbing sense.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I'd been thinking that Sigourney Weaver will turn out to the villain -- CBS procedural rules; as the Big Name Guest Star, it would be her -- and the line reading they used for her one line doesn't dissuade me from that view.

Unless it's Elsbeth, then the big star is the victim.

 

[JD]

I said you were easily amused, I didn't say you were brain-damaged.

As a big fan of The Rise of Skywalker, who is neurodivergent, I find this post highly insulting.

You might be thinking of Cad Bane, the other Clone Wars bounty hunter with an enthusiasm for wearing big hats.

That might be it.

 

[saddestmoon]

I'd been thinking that Sigourney Weaver will turn out to the villain -- CBS procedural rules; as the Big Name Guest Star, it would be her -- and the line reading they used for her one line doesn't dissuade me from that view.

Funnily enough, I’d been quietly wondering that myself… just something about the most recent trailer and previous teaser…

 

[Reverend]

"Flushing" is an Anglicization of the Dutch "Vlissingen," which was the original name of the settlement, after a town in the Netherlands. It dates from the 1600s, a century or two before the word "flush" began to be used in the plumbing sense.

Very good! Now explain to me the purpose behind prefacing a statement with "rhetorical question". I'm fascinated to learn why I did that!

 

[Jedman67]

According to google, Favreau is indeed from Forest Hills, but Scorsese actually grew up on the other side of the East River in Little Italy. Apparently he was only born in Flushing, and his family moved a few times when he was a kid, but Elizabeth Street in Manhattan was the main fixture.

So maybe Scorsese is just imitating Favreau's accent? I've honestly not seen enough interview footage of Scorsese to get a sense of what his natural accent sounds like, assuming my ear could even tell the difference!

Either way, it does feel like a conscious choice to make Ardennians sound like New Yorkers.

Aside from South Brooklyn and parts of Staten Island, and Long Island, most NYC accents are more or less the same.
Long Island has the drawl and Brooklyn has the other drawl

 

[DigificWriter]

I said you were easily amused, I didn't say you were brain-damaged.

Not a good look, dude. Not a good look.

Implying that people who actually liked The Rise of Skywalker A) have no standards when it comes to entertainment and/or B) have something wrong with their brains displays an unprecedented and unnecessary level of a-holery.