> I’m still trying to figure out why Angelina Jolie as Alexander’s twisted mother had a thick Hungarian accent in it. I thought she was playing a Gabor sister.
If I had to hazard a guess, the producers probably modeled Jolie’s accent after the modern Macedonian accent.
I spent an interesting ANZAC dinnertime yesterday at the RSA with a table that included a fireman originally from Macedonia. He had a “-ski” surname, which led me to guess he was from Poland (nope: Macedonia). Very striking facial features, olive skin, tall and athletic, curly brown hair. The girls at the table obviously thought him to be very handsome. If you spray-painted him white and told him to stand still, he could have been mistaken for an ancient Greek statue.
Apparently, tho’, modern Macedonia is somewhat to the north of antient Macedonia, so the eastern European accent probably wouldn’t have applied back then.
Modern self styled “Macedonia” has absolutely nothing to do with any aspect of the ancient Greek Macedonia.