Spanish accent?

Tasia Valenza is an American actress who plays Shaak Ti in the season three of The Clone Wars television series. Today, in starwars.com, they publish a short interview regarding her work in that series. One of its questions comes to my attention (bolds are mine):

What kind of direction were you given for your character?

That she is very calm, subdued, and has a Spanish accent. She was written to have an accent with a Spanish flavor, maybe something on the Brazilian side. They definitely wanted to add that Latin dimension to her[...]

Let's imagine that the show was made in Spain and that Tasia Valenza was Spanish. The question of the interview would be something like this:

What kind of direction were you given for your character?

That she is very calm, subdued, and has an British accent. She was written to have an accent with an British flavor, maybe something on the Mexican side. They definitely wanted to add that Australian dimension to her [...].

Sounds pretty stupid, right?