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Are there any American actors who can do a convincing English accent?

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DanielleX
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Question says it all. I see it in American shows quite a lot. Americans doing English accents end up sounding like Dickensian characters.

I can't make out if they really can't replicate English accents, owing to phonological reasons or whether they do accents, which reflect the American perception of what English people sound like.

Thoughts?

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Magical_felix
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I think Peter Dinklage pulls off a good accent. It's not over the top. I thought he was english at first until I found out he was born in New Jersey. I'm American though so to an English person it might not sound right.
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I think Peter Dinklage pulls off a good accent. It's not over the top. I thought he was english at first until I found out he was born in New Jersey. I'm American though so to an English person it might not sound right.


Okay, I'll have to give him a listen. What's he been in?

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Okay, I'll have to give him a listen. What's he been in?


He's the little person in the show Game of Thrones. There are scenes on YouTube but they will contain spoilers for sure.
DanielleX
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Hmmm.... okay got him. No that's not right. He sounds kind of vaguely Scottish more than anything.

Then at times he doesn't sound like anywhere. That film looks good though!

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My mom is British and she says that Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow and Claire Danes have the best English accents
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My mom is British and she says that Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow and Claire Danes have the best English accents


Paltrow's accent in Sliding Doors grates. Not because it's awful, it's not, it's just she must have chosen some awful sloaney girl to mimic for it.

Here's a good list of examples of where it goes horribly wrong...

http://www.empireonline.com/features/worst-british-movie-accents/13.asp

... though I'm sure there's a similar list of Brits doing appalling American accents
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Quote by DanielleX
Hmmm.... okay got him. No that's not right. He sounds kind of vaguely Scottish more than anything.

Then at times he doesn't sound like anywhere. That film looks good though!


He doesn't sound Scottish! He sounds like the "comedian" Michael mackintyre lol
But I think his accent is good...
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I think Peter Dinklage pulls off a good accent. It's not over the top. I thought he was english at first until I found out he was born in New Jersey. I'm American though so to an English person it might not sound right.


This!!!!! (His accent in Game Of Thrones is perfect... I too thought he was really English until I googled him... Fantastic Actor...)

xx Steph

(He also made Dwarves DAMN sexy.....)

You know, he's not even a REAL dwarf... They do it all with camera-tricks....

Everyone: "Steph, you are so fucking dumb....."
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This!!!!! (His accent in Game Of Thrones is perfect... I too thought he was really English until I googled him... Fantastic Actor...)

xx Steph

(He also made Dwarves DAMN sexy.....)

You know, he's not even a REAL dwarf... They do it all with camera-tricks....

Everyone: "Steph, you are so fucking dumb....."


I beg to differ. He doesn't sound English. He might sound British, but not English. There is a very distinct difference.

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Peter Dinklage doesn't do it for me. Not convincing. The only convincing British accent, for me as an actor and a Scotsman, is Merryl Streep.

Brits are far better at doing accents than Americans.
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I thought the best accent came from Mike Myers, a Canadian, as Austin Powers.

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I beg to differ. He doesn't sound English. He might sound British, but not English. There is a very distinct difference.



REALLY!!!!!! Like, there are REGIONAL accents all over Great Britain? Well you learn something new EVERY DAY!!!!! Because I thought they all spoke like Hugh Grant. (Even the Welsh, Scots and Northern Irish... Not to mention the Cornish.)

Differ away....

*LAUGHS!!!!*

xx Steph

In Ireland we all sound like Colin Farrell... And HE speaks American now... Which is kind of shit for diversity of local dialectic but it DOES make us easier to understand....
Buz
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Yankees, West Coasters and others sure do butcher the Southern accent. They all attempt to do the Charleston, South Carolina upper crust lowland accent. There are various Southern accents and very few people speak that one. The actors fail miserably. Growing up southern, I failed to understand that several TV shows and movies were supposed to be about the South because I didn't know where their accent was from. Actually English actors do a Southern accent better than any other non-Southerners.

So I can easily understand where the English are coming from, having to hear bad attempts at their accent by outsiders.
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Yankees, West Coasters and others sure do butcher the Southern accent. They all attempt to do the Charleston, South Carolina upper crust lowland accent. There are various Southern accents and very few people speak that one. The actors fail miserably. Growing up southern, I failed to understand that several TV shows and movies were supposed to be about the South because I didn't know where their accent was from. Actually English actors do a Southern accent better than any other non-Southerners.

So I can easily understand where the English are coming from, having to hear bad attempts at their accent by outsiders.


Irish People, (I think uniquely) suffer from THIS problem... If you're at a party in, say, ENGLAND, people when they hear your accent attempt to DO it... (And I have a REALLY posh Irish accent!!!!!)

But people go: "Oh, are you Irish???? Fiddle-ee-iddley Bejajaz diddly-idle Top Of The Morning Isn't The Pope Fantastic Riverdance Aren't The British Bastards U2 The Corrs and James Joyce!"

(And I'm like, "You're a fucking waiter, can I just have a dry white wine, please...")

xx SF

"Heores yer dry whoite woine, Sorr!"

"Fuck you..."

I'll tell you a story...

I was in a video store once with a GF and I pulled up a copy of "The Last King of Scotland" (a film about the Ugandan Dictator Idi Amin...) I, (because I am an IDIOT) in my best "African" accent, said, (loudly) "We Should Get This Movie, It Is So Good!!!!" and took it to the counter.

The girl at the counter was a Nigerian Immigrant... Now the correct thing to do would be to say NOTHING but I didn't do that.... (And BTW this young girl was STUNNINGLY pretty...) I said, (panicked and embarrassed) "You may have heard me do an African Accent just then... I hope you didn't think I was being offensive, I really wasn't, I was being funny for my girlfriend but I would have NEVER have...."

By this time the girl was PISSING herself laughing.... (My GF was by then standing outside the store pretending she didn't know me...)

Of course I've NEVER made a mistake like that again, obviously.....
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Irish People, (I think uniquely) suffer from THIS problem... If you're at a party in, say, ENGLAND, people when they hear your accent attempt to DO it... (And I have a REALLY posh Irish accent!!!!!)

But people go: "Oh, are you Irish???? Fiddle-ee-iddley Bejajaz diddly-idle Top Of The Morning Isn't The Pope Fantastic Riverdance Aren't The British Bastards U2 The Corrs and James Joyce!"

(And I'm like, "You're a fucking waiter, can I just have a dry white wine, please...")

xx SF

"Heores yer dry whoite woine, Sorr!"

"Fuck you..."



Ha! That made me laugh. Reminds me of one time at a party at uni. This one guy was trying to impress me. He said,

"I love English language. All those great authors and Playwrights. Shakespeare, Dickens, Bernard Shaw, ummmm..."

Me: "Yeah George Bernard Shaw was Irish."

Guy: "Was he? Are you sure?!"

Me: "Yup!"

Dick.

btw, Irish joke coming up.

Two Irish ducks are flying between lochs.

First duck: "Quack."

Second duck: "I'm going as quack as I can!"


Danny xxx

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Irish People, (I think uniquely) suffer from THIS problem... If you're at a party in, say, ENGLAND, people when they hear your accent attempt to DO it... (And I have a REALLY posh Irish accent!!!!


I'm going to challenge you on that word and ask an American or Englishman to do a Scottish accent.

Us Scots have a widerange of accents and dialects. I come from Shetland and now live in Aberdeen, so I have some bastard-ised Scottish/Doric slightly Scandinavian accent going on sometimes, but when I go full blown Scots I sound like I'm from Kilmarnock.

Any person attempting a Scots accent automatically does a thick, pissed South Glasweigan accent.

We are not all Glasweigan and we are not all pissed, sometimes.

That said, I do regularly toss my caber. Ahem.

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Ha! That made me laugh. Reminds me of one time at a party at uni. This one guy was trying to impress me. He said,

"I love English language. All those great authors and Playwrights. Shakespeare, Dickens, Bernard Shaw, ummmm..."

Me: "Yeah George Bernard Shaw was Irish."

Guy: "Was he? Are you sure?!"

Me: "Yup!"

Dick.

btw, Irish joke coming up.

Two Irish ducks are flying between lochs.

First duck: "Quack."

Second duck: "I'm going as quack as I can!"


Danny xxx



See, THEY DO US!!!!!!!! THEY CAN'T HELP THEMSELVES!!!!

*LAUGHS!*

xx Steph

(MWAH to DX!!!!!!!)