I don't know where you got that from, but the writer of True Detective said that his accent was due to him teaching himself how to speak again after his dad burnt his face. He learned how to speak again from watching those old TV shows.
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There was this idea that when he talks in his real voice, it’s very slurred because of the scarring. My background for him was that he learned how to enunciate properly through watching all these old VCR movies.
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