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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 8:15 am    Post subject: English Actors on American Accents Reply with quote

Vid From Vanity Fair. Charming!
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 9:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

What a delight!
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very interesting and fun. They're mostly too young to have heard my nominee for worst British accent by an American: Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. WHEN he was doing a British accent, which was about half the time, it were awrful (as some of our British friends might say).




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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 10:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gee, while we're on the topic, what's with some Brits throwing half the consonants away much of the time?

As in "what's the matter with him?" is delivered as "wha's 'e mah-uh wi' 'im?"

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 17, 2018 2:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Same reason Queensland Aussies can only ask questions.

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Kevin Kline in a Fish Called Wanda, and Don Cheadle in the Oceans 11 movies....ugh.
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

They don't call the improv game "Dick Van Dyke" for nothin'.

I tend to agree with Bruce. Costner could almost seem to change accents in one scene.

+1 for Don Cheadle too. What's the deal with Cockney accents? (please tell me you just heard that in Seinfeld's voice)
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 28, 2018 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 01, 2018 11:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love it!

In a few weeks I'm going to take a dialect class and see if I can upgrade mine from "not attempted" to at least "poor, with some chance of identifying a path forward. Sarcastic
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 9:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fabulous. When I visited the UK I loved it there...the accents are what makes it!
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