re: Foreign actors with the best American accents

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IMDb actually. I looked him up while watching bloodline to see where he was from.

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Daniel Craig in Knives Out was so bad that it was distracting from an otherwise fantastic movie.

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He was basically foghorn leghorn but I think that was by design.

Domhnall Gleeson does a great job sounding American.

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John Mahoney

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Hy f-ing hell I had no idea he was English. It's astounding, he's got like a true blue American gruff accent with a hint of Chicago.

To be fair though, I would assume he naturally and totally lost his British accent because he moved to America in 1958 at 18 and lived here for another 60 yrs. He's just like Anthony LaPaglia, who admitted to totally losing his Aussie accent in America...or Mel Gibson who did the same.

Mel until Lerhal Weapon had a thick Aussie accent. You can actually still hear hints of omit in lethal weapon. By the early 1990s it was totally gone and didn't even come out when he was yelling on those old tapes. That's how you know you've totally lost your old accent.

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Today I learned Damien Lewis isn’t American

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It’s crazy right!

What’s funny to me is that he plays a decorated American Soldier in two different shows

On the one hand it’s astounding they couldn’t find an American to play Dick Winters, on the other hand he owns that role and I can’t imagine anyone else in it (except for the real guy i guess )

This. Came to post Robert Taylor (Longmire). He's Australian.

He gets better but early seasons he does the same American naisaly accent a lot of British actors
Do.

Cumberbatch does it in Dr. Strange

Emilia Clarke and Jai Courtney.
Terminator Genisys.
May or may not have been a driver in a scene in a paddy wagon. They shot the scene over and over for about 21/2 hours. Between takes they seamlessly switched from native Aussie/Kiwi accents to American English. They even joked about it. Between sets saying “ok we are bout to speak American” with a twang. Didn’t engage or talk to them but they seemed pretty down to earth. The director Alan Taylor came and chatted with me. He was cool. he directed a season of game of thrones.

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Daniel Craig in Knives Out was so bad that it was distracting from an otherwise fantastic movie.

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It was obviously an intentional accent.