An interesting point on accents - the first time I watched the new Transformers movie, I spent half the movie trying to figure out what was wrong with Maggie's voice before I realised she was the only Australian accent in a movie full of American ones.

I'm so used to hearing American (Hollywood) accents that to throw an Aussie in the mix it came off really weird to my ears, and it seems that it's only Aussie accents that throw me like that. The problem doesn't exist in an Australian production - that all Aussie accents - but in something American, especially since I wasn't at all familiar with the actor - it'd probably be different if it was a well-known Australian actor... and it seems to apply only to Aussie accents too - if it'd been say a British accent thrown into the mix then it probably wouldn't have had me boggled like that.