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A clip from Julia Garner’s recent interview with Jimmy Fallon surfaced overnight whereby she breaks down exactly how she nailed Anna Sorokin’s hybrid accent for her role as the titular character in Inventing Anna.

“This is a girl who is saying that she’s German but she’s really Russian, so she’s not gonna have a Russian accent,” said Garner, shifting her accent as she spoke. “So first I had to do like a European, like a German accent, right, you know? But it’s very subtle, it’s like, you know, have a vocal fry at the end of it.”

“And then you know I had to add like a little Russian for certain words, it was a very bad Russian accent,” she added. “And then it gets Americanised, because you know how Americans kind of add a question at the end of everything, like, ‘you know what I mean’? Like, Europeans don’t do that, right?”

Take a look below. Skip to 4.29.

 

Anna Sorokin is Russian-born. Between 2013 – 2017, she moved to New York City and pretended to be a wealthy German heiress under the name of Anna Delvey and defrauded banks, hotels, restaurants, and wealthy acquaintances. Fake bank statements claiming she had million in Swiss bank accounts were submitted to banks for loans, and booked restaurants using fake credit cards.

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In February 2017, she booked into 11 Howard in SoHo (a fabulous hotel and bar if you find yourself in New York City), Sorokin became known as a generous cash tipper, reportedly frequently giving staff member a hundred dollar bull for simple tasks. Her bill exceeded $30,000 and there was no credit card on file. According to the New York Times, Sorokin settled this bill by “depositing bad checks and withdrawing funds before the bank realised what was happening.”

She managed to book at The Beekman down the road, again without a credit card on file, and racked up an $11,500 bill. She would persuade those around her to cover her bills.

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The Manhattan District Attorney cited $275,000 in unpaid bills. At just 28 years old, Sorokin was sentenced to 12 years in prison for four counts of theft of services, three counts of grand larceny and one count of attempted grand larceny. Yesterday, ahead of Netflix releasing the nine-part series Inventing Anna, Sorokin released an essay on her experience in prison and her thoughts on the show.

Inventing Anna hits Netflix on February 11.