Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga contains a neat tribute to Leia's weird accent

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Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has some incredible attention to detail in Princess Leia's accent.

According to Fanbyte editor Imran Khan, Princess Leia's accent in Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga will actually change, if you've enabled voice acting while playing through A New Hope. While Leia's accent will start out as British, she'll transition to an American accent by the time she leaves the Death Star partway through the Lego iteration of the original movie. The difference is subtle, but there's a little more of an American twang to Leia's voice later in the game.

 There's a very good reason for this. Star Wars fans might not know that Carrie Fisher originally portrayed Princess Leia with a British accent in her opening scenes with Grand Moff Tarkin aboard the Death Star. There wasn't a deliberate reason for this though - Fisher was apparently so nervous while filming her opening scenes that her accent accidentally slipped into British English.

Over the rest of A New Hope though, Leia would take on an American accent as Fisher became more comfortable filming. Over the ensuing decades, some have attempted to find reason for this. For example, in the novel Bloodlines, author Claudia Gray explained the British accent as Leia mocking Grand Moff Tarkin's stiff British accent from actor Peter Cushing. 

The Skywalker Saga sort of brings things full circle then, almost paying tribute to Fisher's nervousness and Leia's strange accent with a nice little touch. Check out our Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga review-in-progress to see what we've made of the expansive game so far.

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Hirun Cryer
Hirun Cryer

Hirun Cryer is a freelance reporter and writer with Gamesradar+ based out of U.K. After earning a degree in American History specializing in journalism, cinema, literature, and history, he stepped into the games writing world, with a focus on shooters, indie games, and RPGs, and has since been the recipient of the MCV 30 Under 30 award for 2021. In his spare time he freelances with other outlets around the industry, practices Japanese, and enjoys contemporary manga and anime.