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re: Foreign actors with the best American accents

Posted on 7/3/20 at 3:19 pm to
Posted by Lawyered
The Sip
Member since Oct 2016
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Posted on 7/3/20 at 3:19 pm to
Sarah snook in succession....

Listened to a podcast where she was on and I had no idea she was Australian..

Blew my mind

Edit: her arse isn’t from this planet however .. lawddd
This post was edited on 7/3/20 at 3:21 pm
Posted by Marciano1
Marksville, LA
Member since Jun 2009
19779 posts
Posted on 7/3/20 at 3:21 pm to
quote:

Idris Elba on The Wire

You could definitely hear the British in him when he got angry on the show
Posted by Buck_Rogers
Member since Jul 2013
2069 posts
Posted on 7/3/20 at 4:09 pm to
Rutger Hauer
Posted by MasonTiger
Mason, Ohio
Member since Jan 2005
18457 posts
Posted on 7/3/20 at 4:46 pm to
Saoirse Ronan
Posted by The Midnight Rider
Where the River Empties
Member since May 2015
1576 posts
Posted on 7/3/20 at 5:03 pm to
quote:

Foreign actors with the best American accents

Idris Elba as Stringer Bell in the Wire. /thread.
Posted by SG_Geaux
Beautiful St George, LA
Member since Aug 2004
80498 posts
Posted on 7/3/20 at 6:10 pm to
Yvonne Strahovski in Chuck
Posted by Corso
Atlanta
Member since Feb 2020
11789 posts
Posted on 7/3/20 at 6:35 pm to
Jason Clarke is known having a flawless American accent. He even pulled off Hyannis Port Kennedy damn well in Chappaquiddick
Posted by VoxDawg
Glory, Glory
Member since Sep 2012
75211 posts
Posted on 7/3/20 at 9:40 pm to
Three pages and no Jodie Comer?

For. Shame.

Posted by Boo Krewe
Member since Apr 2015
9810 posts
Posted on 7/3/20 at 9:55 pm to
Dominic west , Charlie human broke sometimes. They were trying to hard. Best scene was Domonic west doing a fake British accent


Gerard Butler is the worst
Posted by BasilFawlty
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Dec 2014
1271 posts
Posted on 7/4/20 at 7:13 am to
quote:

Mel Gibson who did the same.

When Mad Max was released in America, his lines were dubbed by another actor so Gibson's lines could be understood.
Posted by Jester
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
34717 posts
Posted on 7/4/20 at 7:46 am to
quote:

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




Anyone who says otherwise is a clown. It was about as bad as Keanu's British accent.
Posted by Jester
Baton Rouge
Member since Feb 2006
34717 posts
Posted on 7/4/20 at 7:51 am to
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It was obviously an intentional accent


Nobody is arguing that the accent was intentionally over-the-top. He just struggled mightily to pull it off with any consistency.
This post was edited on 7/4/20 at 7:51 am
Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
22588 posts
Posted on 7/4/20 at 9:16 am to
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Australian people


They do punch way above their weight class as do many from the UK. US actors by and large don’t get it done. Too spoiled as Hollywood is the center of the entertainment universe.
Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
9501 posts
Posted on 7/4/20 at 3:17 pm to
quote:

quote:
Idris Elba on The Wire

You could definitely hear the British in him when he got angry on the show


I remember thinking the same thing a couple of times when he played Charles on The Office.
Posted by Carson123987
Middle Court at the Rec
Member since Jul 2011
67796 posts
Posted on 7/4/20 at 5:43 pm to
quote:

Dominic West and Idris Elba on The Wire


Lol no, both of their native accents sneak out on several instances
Posted by MidnightVibe
Member since Feb 2015
7896 posts
Posted on 7/4/20 at 8:09 pm to
Hugh Laurie as House.
Posted by GreenRockTiger
vortex to the whirlpool of despair
Member since Jun 2020
58478 posts
Posted on 7/4/20 at 9:04 pm to
Yeah, poor Gerry - getting all these American films with a crappy accent
Posted by papasmurf1269
Hells Pass
Member since Apr 2005
21378 posts
Posted on 7/4/20 at 11:07 pm to
Kate Winslet
Posted by RoyalAir
Detroit
Member since Dec 2012
7259 posts
Posted on 7/5/20 at 6:43 am to
Charlize Theron and Damian Lewis are my two picks. Americans can barely do English accents, but damn near no one can pull off a South African accent. Theron sounds like an American, pretty much at all times.

Gary Oldman is in such a different weight class that even Dennis Miller made a comment that he didn't know he SAS English.
Posted by Priapus
Member since Oct 2012
1950 posts
Posted on 7/5/20 at 2:16 pm to
Worst for me is Nicolas Col... ahh screw it, the Kingslayer's accent in Black Hawk Down. It certainly improved by GOT.
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