How Julia Garner Mastered Anna Delvey’s Unusual Accent

The first thing you notice about Julia Garner’s performance as Anna Delvey, the conwoman at the heart of the new Netflix series Inventing Anna, is her character’s difficult-to-place, vaguely European accent. (In real life, Delvey was born in Russia and grew up in Germany. Later on, according to writer Chloe Malle, she “mimicked American English by watching shows like Gossip Girl.”) It was a way of speaking that didn’t come easily for Garner. In fact, in an interview for Town & Country’s February cover story, the actress, who is also known for playing Ruth Langmore in Ozark and Kimberly Breland… Read Full Article