User blog comment:Mike Gilbert/Mass Effect movie?/@comment-5008642-20121024133243/@comment-4310096-20121025115417

@4Ferelden You definitely got a point with your quote. The thing is, that just like Garrus' character you can influence Ashley's in a way by interacting with her. You can encourage Garrus' hot-headedness or you can tell him to stick to the rules and he'll change accordingly. You can tell Ashley to become more tolerant towards aliens and she gradually becomes more tolerant, leading to the quote "Tali is (almost?) like a sister to me, I approve" - ME3 at the meeting on the Citadel, if you choose to romance Tali. Saying that a member of a different race is like a sister to you is far from being racist.

As for the accent, I've been told by someone who is also russian, that Tali's accent is not russian. Some other people also speculated that it could be a ukrainian one.