Jeremy Strong spoke in Polish accent for seven months while prepping next film role

Former Succession star Jeremy Strong has revealed he spoke in a Polish accent for seven months while preparing for a film role. The actor is known for his embrace of method acting, where he inhabits his role for the entirety of the production. In a new interview with GQ, promoting his forthcoming role as Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning, he is described as speaking with a Polish accent, something he had been doing for seven months while shooting a TV miniseries, a remake of the War classic The Boys From Brazil. When addressing the decision, he told the outlet: “I don’t want it to feel like an accent. I want it to just be a person, and that’s their voice—and our voice is the most individual thing about us.” The article spoke with collaborators of Strong’s who confirmed he would speak to them in the accent without explanation. “He called me six or eight weeks ago,” said Aaron Sorkin, the writer and director of The Social Reckoning, “and without any introduction, he was just speaking as an Eastern European Nazi hunter, talking to me about the movie we had just made, without saying, ‘Hey, listen, this is going to sound strange, but.…’ ” Bradley Cooper, Strong’s frie...