Where Is ‘Selling the OC’ Polly Brindle From? Star’s Accent Explained - Netflix Tudum
- She’s been Stateside for 11 years.Aug. 24, 2022
A particular dinner during Selling the OC’s first episode goes from pizza party to gossip fest faster than you can say “escrow.” In the center of the conversation is Oppenheim Group agent Polly Brindle, who is desperately trying to retell the failed moment she tried to “bond” with co-worker/frenemy Alexandra Jarvis. “I thought you said ‘bone,’” says co-star Kayla Cardona over a glass of wine. This might be the first time someone mishears British expat Polly’s accent during Selling the OC’s Season 1. But it’s certainly not the last.
“I get told pretty often actually that people don't understand — not my accent, but certain words that I say,” Polly tells Tudum. While mixups aren’t happening daily, they’re a “weekly” occurrence. Even ordering a simple glass of water is apparently difficult. “It's not just the office unfortunately. It's a little bit irritating but I'm used to it at this point. I've been here for 11 years,” she says.
Polly was born and raised in the North of England, which is where she says the bulk of her accent hails from. “But I left when I was very young so maybe there's a touch of London in there,” she theorizes, saying she is “covering a lot of England” with her current accent. “When I go back home, people do think I sound American.”
It’s not particularly shocking Polly sounds a bit American, even when she’s in her hometown. While the former model has previously lived in Paris, Milan and Barcelona, she spent the bulk of her adult life in California. Polly lived in Los Angeles for nine years and jokes she even has a bit of a “Valley Girl” accent, if anything. She only moved to Orange County, where Selling the OC is filmed, when the pandemic made her life in LA untenable. “I was working three jobs at the time and the pandemic made me lose them all,” she explains. “I was quarantining by myself in my apartment and it got very, very dangerous pretty quickly in the area where I lived.”
So, she packed up and moved to the OC. Soon enough, Polly saw the O Group was opening an office five minutes from her new digs and contacted boss Jason Oppenheim. The next day, she was touring the office and having coffee with Jason. Polly joined the team quickly after.
Although Polly’s colleagues are still getting tripped up by her everyday speech, she is, at least, very confident in one other particular mode of communication. “I actually did [the love language] test. I thought it was going to be physical touch but it's quality time, which makes sense. I like to spend time with people that I love,” she says. That, at least, is thankfully a language anyone can understand.
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