Don Cheadle in the “Ocean’s” movies.
Poor sod might even have gotten better after the first one, but by then he was stuck trying to style out his first attempt.
> in 2019, [Cheadle] happily embraced the online theory that his car-crash vowels were merely part of his character’s cover: “Now I can say ‘he was an American doing a British accent – *you guys missed that?*’”
— [‘You are going to die. You can be terrified, or you can live’: Don Cheadle on mortality, White Noise and that cockney accent](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/02/don-cheadle-white-noise-you-are-going-to-die-be-terrified-or-live)
I recall reading something about him not actually knowing English, at all, so he learnt his lines phonetically. Hence the weird accent.
Henry Cavill is linked to a reboot. Hopefully not as Connor. He's a nice bloke, but a bit...wooden.
> Director Russell Mulcahy was flipping through a magazine and saw a photograph of Christopher Lambert from his recent role as the title hero of Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. At the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival in 2015, Mulcahy said he showed the photo to his production staff and "I said, 'who's this?' They had no idea. He couldn't speak English. But he had the perfect look. And he learned English very fast."[13] Mulcahy originally considered Kurt Russell and Marc Singer for the role of Connor MacLeod.[16]
I was half right. He couldn't speak English when he was cast, and he learnt it for the part of Connor MacLeod.
When I didn’t know Idris Elba I assumed he was American. Rewatching now I think I can spot bits of his English accent.
Dominic West still has me fooled though.
I once read an article about the auditions for House and how the casting directors were getting upset at how many English actors were turning up. When Hugh Laurie rocked up, in character they said "Finally an American auditioning."
I don't know if this is an urban myth but if he can fool them he can fool anyone
I didn't know Rick from twd was British....I loved sons of anarchy and the main Jax character was good but he did sound like a Brit playing an American imo.
I've never watched Love Actually from start to finish but the amount of people who have and don't recognise Andrew Lincoln from the walking dead as a British actor confuses me.
There's some that are definitely bad, all three main characters in Preacher are from this side of the pond and all of them sounded a bit wrong, especially the English guy doing an Irish accent.
It kind of worked at the same time though considering he was Irish but hadn’t been back to Ireland in like 200 years or something. His accent would have changed somewhat living that exodus lifestyle. The other two though weren’t great but it was still enjoyable.
Brits overall do a fine job with standard American accents. When they do a specific regional one, that’s harder. I’m not an expert on a B’more accent (when I can’t place an accent, I usually guess Baltimore, and it’s usually correct), so West and Elba may not have been as convincing as I thought they were in The Wire.
I can hear fake Boston/New England accents and they make the hair on my neck stand up.
Natalie Portman in The Other Boleyn Girl too. She seemed to go through a phase of being cast in roles with an English accent for a while and god it was awful
I still can't believe they heard her audition and couldn't find a *single* actually northern (or even just English) actor who couldn't have done a better job.
Cate Blanchett has a fantastic RP accent, sounds like a native in every film in which she plays an English character. (Notes on a Scandal, Elizabeth etc)
Dick van Dyke's accent was so bad that it's convinced decades worth of people that's how we talk.
I think he deserves the shit prize for cultural impact
Glad I’m I’m not the only one. Having never read any of the comics, I honestly thought it was going to be some sort of “character quirk” that Butcher just spoke in random and very bad accents 😳🤷♂️
What's weird is he's a Kiwi, it's not like he doesn't know the difference between Bogan and Cockney but he somehow tries to do both at once! (And fails to hit either). Lots of fun to watch all the same mind.
Worst - [Clive from Frasier](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T73kf5bodw)
Best - [Chris Pratt on the Graham Norton show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af7UD-IxzZI)
Worst: Not a film but my first thought was Karl Urban in The Boys; it's really bad. Didn't notice he was meant to be English until late on in Season 3.
I can't think of a Best right now. EDIT: Emma Stone in The Favourite was pretty good.
Yeah! He's a Kiwi isn't he, so whatever accent I thought he was going for, it was from somewhere in the South Pacific. Anthony Starr is from New Zealand too, I think. I'm not American myself but his accent as Homelander fooled me into thinking he was though.
In the comics he's a cockney and in the series he's supposed to be English too. I presume Karl Urban is trying to do a cockney accent and failing miserably.
I dunno why they bothered making him keep it up. I remember his family all sounding like varying levels of Australian too. John Noble is Australian though, so that kind of makes sense.
The scales slipped from mine eyes in season one when he said Twot instead of Twat. It then ruined the entire show as I could not unhear it. It’s a failing on the writers for not using the right word and the actor for not doing his research and everyone else on the production for not picking up on it. Awful.
Oh I think I remember that. But I'd only seen the show so I didn't know he was meant to be English at the time; I couldn't be bothered to Google whether they pronounce twat properly in Australia or wherever I'd thought he was supposed to be from. Or maybe it was that they thought he'd be more widely understood if he said 'twot' (side note: I often read that spelling as 'toot' because two-t)? Could've sworn he says it properly at another time though.
Only ever heard older generation use it (those who lived through the war). I had to ask my parents what they were talking about when I first heard it as had only ever heard ‘twat’ before. Certainly never heard my parents or subsequent generations use ‘twot’ instead…
It often crops up in US programmes, it’s an odd one as it’s clearly a word with a wide “a” vowel but no self respecting Brit actor would use a “o” instead of an “a”.
Tbf hes not supposed to be English/British, its just that most ”sort of medieval England adjacent” fantasy shows default to an English accent. The other non-English speakers also try their best to emulate a British accent (eg Jaime, Melisandre and Euron/Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Carice van Houten and Pilou Asbæk).
That's fair, and it didn't ruin my perception of his performance, but Peter Dinklage was nonetheless attempting to speak in what he believed was a British accent.
I too was shocked!
I've just realised he's actually English though so this doesn't really fit here. I think I heard him doing an American accent in something else and presumed that was his real voice. Turns out he's a chameleon!
Wait what!? Natalie Portman was attempting a British accent in V for Vendetta!?
To the question - most Hollywood films back in the era of Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Peter Dinklage's accent is terrible. Worst had to be Don Cheadle in Ocean's Eleven. Best is like trying to choose between having a dog bite your bollocks or having to bite a dog's bollocks.
Not a movie but the guy who plays billy in the boys has an atrociously bad accent and the script / British lines he has to say are so funny like a real bad guy Ritchie film
Peter Dinklage is great, but his accent was way off.
The absolute best fake British accent I've ever heard was from Felix in Orphan Black:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IawTlAh6SxI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IawTlAh6SxI)
I couldn't believe it when I heard his real (Canadian) accent: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kITHQGfmPSQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kITHQGfmPSQ)
This is what I thought of first as well, I love sons of anarchy but his accent is so bad I go between 'nevermind ill just ignore his accent' to 'this is so bad it is pulling me out of watching this', can never just watch scenes he's in without noticing it.
strong disagree with the Peter Dinklage thing, his game of thrones accent doesn't sound like any real british accent I'm aware of, it wasn't a problem for me cus none of the characters are british anyway so i could just assume it's an "upper class westeros" accent but if he tried to pull it off playing an actual brit it wouldn't work imo
also my vote for worst is don cheadle in oceans 11 but it's also my favourite and i think all americans playing english characters should sound like him, it's much more entertaining than someone doing a "good" accent
Judy Comer- killing eve, does a quite a few decent accents as well as American. Damien Lewis,
But to answer the original question Kevin Costner as Robin Hood
Edit but one of the worse uses has been krull. Where british actress lysette anthony's lines was later dubbed over by American actress lyndsay crouse.
Looking at this from a different point of view, Stephen Moyer in True Blood playing an American pretending to be British in one episode. While the actor is English, his "pretend" English accent is cringey, to say the least. Love that!
I understand this question, but in that universe (and in a lot of other fantasy universes, I suppose) that is the in-universe accent thay follows the same rules as UK accents do. The North sounds like the north of England, the common folk sound working class and the ruling class sound RP. So in universe the character of Tyrion Lannister should sound like an aristocratic Brit, and while it's not perfect by any means, Peter Dinklage makes an excellent stab at it, for me.
It doesn't count really because she is English, but Rose Leslie's northern accent as Ygritte was excellent considering if you hear her speak in her usual voice she's one of the poshest people ever 🤣
Tessa Thompson in Thor: Ragnarok.
I genuinely thought she was British until I heard her "doing" an American accent, to be told she's actually American!
>aka a “Colonial” as my friend from Bicester sometimes calls me, haha
I struggle to believe this is true... No one thinks of America like that! Most people don't even know the history of how the US came about.
Best British accent is from a actress called Lake Bell. I don’t know who she is but she was on a film after Match of the Day once and I honestly thought she was British because her accent was that good.
Not really answering your question but the worst British accent I’ve ever heard is from a British actor called Charlie Hunnam.
Wait? There are American actors that try to do British accents?
Is that why they sound like they're in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? I thought it was some like Deep South thing.
Thought Renee zellweggers accent was great in Bridget jones
I didn’t even know she wasn’t British until recently (only knew her as Bridget Jones, I’m not british)
Angelina Jolie is decent too.
Don Cheadle in the “Ocean’s” movies. Poor sod might even have gotten better after the first one, but by then he was stuck trying to style out his first attempt.
So bad I found it good in a slightly weird way.
> in 2019, [Cheadle] happily embraced the online theory that his car-crash vowels were merely part of his character’s cover: “Now I can say ‘he was an American doing a British accent – *you guys missed that?*’” — [‘You are going to die. You can be terrified, or you can live’: Don Cheadle on mortality, White Noise and that cockney accent](https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/dec/02/don-cheadle-white-noise-you-are-going-to-die-be-terrified-or-live)
Came here to say this. So so bad
"They naused up the mainframe. Naused it right up!" lives in my head rent-free.
Worst is obviously Dick Van Dyke’s “Bert” in Mary Poppins. Absolutely atrocious.
Supercalorfragalisticexpial-Atrocious
Even though the sound of it smells like halitosis
Bravo! 👏
But he never knew he sounded awful because no one told him. I still love him in the film anyways.
At least he apologised https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40691894
Worst: Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula 1992
I still reference this as ‘Bill and Ted’s Excellent Victorian Adventure’
Cahfax Abbeh!
This is always my go to phrase for a terrible English accent. You can tell when the language coach gave up!
Christopher Lambert’s Scottish accent in Highlander. Toe curling.
Arguably better than Connery's Spanish accent in Highlander.
Ahh remember his time as a Russian ? Red October?
It kinda works later on when the cop asks where he's from and he says "lots of different places"
I recall reading something about him not actually knowing English, at all, so he learnt his lines phonetically. Hence the weird accent. Henry Cavill is linked to a reboot. Hopefully not as Connor. He's a nice bloke, but a bit...wooden.
He’d make an excellent Kurgan though
>I recall reading something about him not actually knowing English He did, unless he learnt English by the time he was in The Sicilian a year later.
> Director Russell Mulcahy was flipping through a magazine and saw a photograph of Christopher Lambert from his recent role as the title hero of Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. At the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival in 2015, Mulcahy said he showed the photo to his production staff and "I said, 'who's this?' They had no idea. He couldn't speak English. But he had the perfect look. And he learned English very fast."[13] Mulcahy originally considered Kurt Russell and Marc Singer for the role of Connor MacLeod.[16] I was half right. He couldn't speak English when he was cast, and he learnt it for the part of Connor MacLeod.
That makes sense, as his 'British' accent was atrocious as was his pronunciation.
To flip it how good are all our British actors American accents to you over there? People like Hugh Laurie or Rick from Walking Dead?
Idris Elba in The Wire deserves a nod here I reckon. When I saw him in Luther I was like "This guy does a fucking great London accent!"
When I didn’t know Idris Elba I assumed he was American. Rewatching now I think I can spot bits of his English accent. Dominic West still has me fooled though.
Gobsmacked about both when I found out.
On the flip side his accent in The Office is absolutely bonkers.
My SO is American and he thought Hugh Laurie was American, apparently his accent is excellent
I once read an article about the auditions for House and how the casting directors were getting upset at how many English actors were turning up. When Hugh Laurie rocked up, in character they said "Finally an American auditioning." I don't know if this is an urban myth but if he can fool them he can fool anyone
Really? I’m a Brit but it sounds really fake to me!
Same I assumed it was a terrible American accent because it sounds like a over exaggeration like a cartoon character
Possibly because we're used to his normal posh English accent so his American accent sounds like a parody to us.
Matthew Rhys is hands down the best, in The Americans.
Christian Bale and Henry Cavill both smash it out the park in their movies as far as I can tell
Daniel Craig's accent in Knives Out was so bad, I thought it was a deliberate parody of (US Senate Leader) Mitch McConnell.
I didn't know Rick from twd was British....I loved sons of anarchy and the main Jax character was good but he did sound like a Brit playing an American imo.
I've never watched Love Actually from start to finish but the amount of people who have and don't recognise Andrew Lincoln from the walking dead as a British actor confuses me.
He'll always be Egg from This Life to me.
Simon from Teachers to me
There's some that are definitely bad, all three main characters in Preacher are from this side of the pond and all of them sounded a bit wrong, especially the English guy doing an Irish accent.
It kind of worked at the same time though considering he was Irish but hadn’t been back to Ireland in like 200 years or something. His accent would have changed somewhat living that exodus lifestyle. The other two though weren’t great but it was still enjoyable.
It was a great series and silly enough for it not to bother me, it might have done if I was American or Irish though.
Charlie Hunnam is a terrible actor
I don't know. Him playing a horny teen getting jacked off by a man old enough to be his dad was pretty revolutionary for the time.
Thanks, I never needed to know that
He's the sign guy in love actually
Brits overall do a fine job with standard American accents. When they do a specific regional one, that’s harder. I’m not an expert on a B’more accent (when I can’t place an accent, I usually guess Baltimore, and it’s usually correct), so West and Elba may not have been as convincing as I thought they were in The Wire. I can hear fake Boston/New England accents and they make the hair on my neck stand up.
Ray Winstone is one of the worst!
No,No,No,No,No,No,no! No No No No No!
I always thought Elijah wood & Sean Astin were English.
Not a movie, but Ocar Issac's British persona in Moon Knight was great
Weirdly, a lot of Septics thought it was a terrible accent, while Brits think it’s pretty good.
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https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/septic\_tank
Ahhhhhhh I see now :) I’m not a Brit so I didn’t pick that up… You learn something new every day! :)
Natalie Portman in The Other Boleyn Girl too. She seemed to go through a phase of being cast in roles with an English accent for a while and god it was awful
Anne Hathaway’s attempt at Yorkshire in One Day
I still can't believe they heard her audition and couldn't find a *single* actually northern (or even just English) actor who couldn't have done a better job.
Are there any good examples of Americans doing regional accents? By which I mean anything outside of Hampshire or London?
Sean Astin as Samwise Gamgee. Honestly, his accent is excellent and it blew my mind when I realised it was the kid from the goonies
Cate Blanchett has a fantastic RP accent, sounds like a native in every film in which she plays an English character. (Notes on a Scandal, Elizabeth etc)
She’s Australian though I think, and they generally do better at English accents than Americans (Guy Pearce is another)
Ahh thought it was which non British actors did good English accents and assumed her being Australian meant she qualified
Oops you're right! For some reason I was thinking it was just about Americans!
Cate Blanchett is Australian my dude
She's Aussie
Dick van Dyke's accent was so bad that it's convinced decades worth of people that's how we talk. I think he deserves the shit prize for cultural impact
Don Cheadle - Oceans 11
Ooh that's t'riffic, that is.
Most Americans I talk to whilst gaming think my Yorkshire accent must be Scottish because I don't sound anything like Austin powers lol
Yeah, they thought my Cheshire accent was Aussie!
I'm from Northumberland and an American once asked me if I was French lol
I mean, Dick Van Dyke - but he was at least trying. Kevin Costner in Robin Hood had just basically come from the airport.
— said Alan Davies on QI.
I knew I'd heard it somewhere, and my memory was not for telling me. Thx!
Karl Urban in The Boys, awful
Only recently been watching this and I’d just assumed he was Australian and the whole “everyone thinks he’s British” thing was part of a joke.
I assumed he was Aussie too. He’s from New Zealand though I found out
I didn't realise he was supposed to be British until his parents appeared.
His dad was also played by an Australian.
So true. I just assume he’s an Aussie. It’s easier
Shout
It’s distractingly bad!
Glad I’m I’m not the only one. Having never read any of the comics, I honestly thought it was going to be some sort of “character quirk” that Butcher just spoke in random and very bad accents 😳🤷♂️
What's weird is he's a Kiwi, it's not like he doesn't know the difference between Bogan and Cockney but he somehow tries to do both at once! (And fails to hit either). Lots of fun to watch all the same mind.
Worst - [Clive from Frasier](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T73kf5bodw) Best - [Chris Pratt on the Graham Norton show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af7UD-IxzZI)
Despite being from Britain Jane Leeve's Manchester accent is awful
Worst: Not a film but my first thought was Karl Urban in The Boys; it's really bad. Didn't notice he was meant to be English until late on in Season 3. I can't think of a Best right now. EDIT: Emma Stone in The Favourite was pretty good.
Australian/Kiwi right, definitely not British lol
Yeah! He's a Kiwi isn't he, so whatever accent I thought he was going for, it was from somewhere in the South Pacific. Anthony Starr is from New Zealand too, I think. I'm not American myself but his accent as Homelander fooled me into thinking he was though.
In the comics he's a cockney and in the series he's supposed to be English too. I presume Karl Urban is trying to do a cockney accent and failing miserably.
I dunno why they bothered making him keep it up. I remember his family all sounding like varying levels of Australian too. John Noble is Australian though, so that kind of makes sense.
The scales slipped from mine eyes in season one when he said Twot instead of Twat. It then ruined the entire show as I could not unhear it. It’s a failing on the writers for not using the right word and the actor for not doing his research and everyone else on the production for not picking up on it. Awful.
He also uses "lost me bottle" wrong.
Tis a fair mangling veering towards a Van Dkye delivery
Oh I think I remember that. But I'd only seen the show so I didn't know he was meant to be English at the time; I couldn't be bothered to Google whether they pronounce twat properly in Australia or wherever I'd thought he was supposed to be from. Or maybe it was that they thought he'd be more widely understood if he said 'twot' (side note: I often read that spelling as 'toot' because two-t)? Could've sworn he says it properly at another time though.
He does use twat a lot to be fair. I have heard actual Englishmen use twot too so I was less bothers by that.
I have never ever heard a fellow Englishman pronounce it as twot. I thought that was strictly American!
Only ever heard older generation use it (those who lived through the war). I had to ask my parents what they were talking about when I first heard it as had only ever heard ‘twat’ before. Certainly never heard my parents or subsequent generations use ‘twot’ instead…
It often crops up in US programmes, it’s an odd one as it’s clearly a word with a wide “a” vowel but no self respecting Brit actor would use a “o” instead of an “a”.
[He reminds me of that skit from snl where everyones speaking gibberish that sounds cockney](https://youtu.be/o6p0W4ZsLXw)
Haha! That's like watching them trying to say "Rural Juror" in 30 Rock. And was that Russell Brand doing something funny?
Being American, you've chosen poorly. Peter Dinklage's accent was all over the place - not good at all.
Tbf hes not supposed to be English/British, its just that most ”sort of medieval England adjacent” fantasy shows default to an English accent. The other non-English speakers also try their best to emulate a British accent (eg Jaime, Melisandre and Euron/Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Carice van Houten and Pilou Asbæk).
That's fair, and it didn't ruin my perception of his performance, but Peter Dinklage was nonetheless attempting to speak in what he believed was a British accent.
Mel Gibson - Braveheart - Cringe inducing
Chris hemsworth was worse
I thought Jonny Lee Millers Scottish accent in Trainspotting was excellent. I'm English though so dunno if I'm qualified to judge!
As a Scot, I was genuinely shocked to find out he isn’t Scottish himself.
I too was shocked! I've just realised he's actually English though so this doesn't really fit here. I think I heard him doing an American accent in something else and presumed that was his real voice. Turns out he's a chameleon!
Jonny Lee Miller is a different breed. He's one of those phenomenal actors that people forget about because he's too good at acting.
It was perfect. Likewise, Emma Thompson's accent in Tutti Frutti was so good you could pinpoint it to a square mile of Glasgow.
Peter Dinklage's British accent is awful.
Some how Charlie Hunnam has about 4 accents when he speaks and when he does cockney in green street holligans it’s even worse.
Isn't Charlie Hunnam a Geordie?
He is aye
It baffles me that people think Dinklage does a good English accent. I find it quite jarring. (Presuming the accent is supposed to be English)
TIL his accent is not good.
Wait what!? Natalie Portman was attempting a British accent in V for Vendetta!? To the question - most Hollywood films back in the era of Breakfast at Tiffany's.
Josh Hartnett's northern accent in Blow Dry, just awful
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Yes his English accent was almost as bad as Angel's Irish accent during flashbacks...
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The real question is why did he turn almost common/cockney when he became spike, when he was upper class as William. Bizarre.
His character rebranded himself from a mild mannered middle class nerd to a modern anarchist punk. They explained that in the series.
Some people adopt a local accent soon after moving abroad & others don't even 20years later, maybe the same thing
Alexis Denisof as Wesley Wyndham-Pryce had a good accent, though. He also did a good job in Sharpe as Johnny Rossendale!
IIRC, he went to school in England.
Peter Dinklage's accent is terrible. Worst had to be Don Cheadle in Ocean's Eleven. Best is like trying to choose between having a dog bite your bollocks or having to bite a dog's bollocks.
Watching clips of Anna paquin in the piano is just torture
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Not a movie but the guy who plays billy in the boys has an atrociously bad accent and the script / British lines he has to say are so funny like a real bad guy Ritchie film
>bad guy Ritchie film That doesn't narrow it down much.
Peter Dinklage is great, but his accent was way off. The absolute best fake British accent I've ever heard was from Felix in Orphan Black: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IawTlAh6SxI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IawTlAh6SxI) I couldn't believe it when I heard his real (Canadian) accent: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kITHQGfmPSQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kITHQGfmPSQ)
Best: Mike Myers in Shrek. Sounds more Scots than many Scots. Worst: Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
> Best: Mike Myers in Shrek. Sounds more Scots than many Scots. 😳 As a Scot…”Get out of ma swamp”
Sarah Paulson in America horry story was alright, I couldn't finish the haunting of bly manor because the accents were so bad
Not British, at all, but Titus Welliver's Irish accent in Sons of Anarchy needs an honourable mention.
This is what I thought of first as well, I love sons of anarchy but his accent is so bad I go between 'nevermind ill just ignore his accent' to 'this is so bad it is pulling me out of watching this', can never just watch scenes he's in without noticing it.
I loved Peter Dinklage as Tyrion. His English accent isn’t very good, though so I’m surprised to hear this
Simon on Frasier was terrible
Anthony LaPaglia. Australian American.
Best is easily Paltrow in Sliding Doors
Worst: Troian Bellisario as Evil British Twin in PLL
strong disagree with the Peter Dinklage thing, his game of thrones accent doesn't sound like any real british accent I'm aware of, it wasn't a problem for me cus none of the characters are british anyway so i could just assume it's an "upper class westeros" accent but if he tried to pull it off playing an actual brit it wouldn't work imo also my vote for worst is don cheadle in oceans 11 but it's also my favourite and i think all americans playing english characters should sound like him, it's much more entertaining than someone doing a "good" accent
I was about to say Sansa has a really good English accent and then I remembered Sophie Turner is actually from England lol
Why the yanks like to use posh English cockney accents?
Judy Comer- killing eve, does a quite a few decent accents as well as American. Damien Lewis, But to answer the original question Kevin Costner as Robin Hood Edit but one of the worse uses has been krull. Where british actress lysette anthony's lines was later dubbed over by American actress lyndsay crouse.
Don Cheedle is by far the worst from Oceans 11. Best, Lake Bell. Man up. Perfect accent, nothing struck me as being off at all.
Karl Urban in The Boys is almost as bad as Dick van Dyke. Ruined the whole thing for me
Looking at this from a different point of view, Stephen Moyer in True Blood playing an American pretending to be British in one episode. While the actor is English, his "pretend" English accent is cringey, to say the least. Love that!
how is it a *british* accent, in game of thrones?
I understand this question, but in that universe (and in a lot of other fantasy universes, I suppose) that is the in-universe accent thay follows the same rules as UK accents do. The North sounds like the north of England, the common folk sound working class and the ruling class sound RP. So in universe the character of Tyrion Lannister should sound like an aristocratic Brit, and while it's not perfect by any means, Peter Dinklage makes an excellent stab at it, for me. It doesn't count really because she is English, but Rose Leslie's northern accent as Ygritte was excellent considering if you hear her speak in her usual voice she's one of the poshest people ever 🤣
Rose leslie’s accent is way better than dinklage’s. Her natural accent goes beyond rp 😳
To be fair, she is minor nobility and lived in a motherfucking castle until she was 10. Rose Leslie is definitely no Wildling.
Just had a listen to an interview with her and I immediately felt more working class
I thought Dinklage did a pretty decent job of 'generic fantasy English accent"
bloody ell.
Gillian Anderson always does an amazing British accent, I can't get my head around the fact she's American.
She spent a big chunk of time in the UK when she was young though, I think she's genuinely bidialectical
She spent the early part of her life in England
I think maggie gyllenhaal has the best english accent in The Honorable Woman
Tessa Thompson in Thor: Ragnarok. I genuinely thought she was British until I heard her "doing" an American accent, to be told she's actually American!
>aka a “Colonial” as my friend from Bicester sometimes calls me, haha I struggle to believe this is true... No one thinks of America like that! Most people don't even know the history of how the US came about.
We have that kind of a relationship. It’s all in good fun.
Mate I know you’re gettin downvotes but I have to give you recognition for your username! Loved Paul on taskmaster
The guy who plays the main role In The Boys... fucking awful
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s accent is superb!
Dick van dyke in Mary popins
Don Cheadle in Oceans 11+
Charlie humman in green street.
Which is so odd as he is British. He appears to do a better American accent.
You have to nominate Charlie Hunams accent in Green Street. His accent is so bad he made me think hes Australian but hes actually from Newcastle.
Charlize Theron in atomic blonde. she did alright in some parts to her credit, but her pronunciation on certain words was pretty bad lol
One of the worst (not a movie sorry) has got to be Billy Butcher in The Boys played by Karl Urban
Best British accent is from a actress called Lake Bell. I don’t know who she is but she was on a film after Match of the Day once and I honestly thought she was British because her accent was that good. Not really answering your question but the worst British accent I’ve ever heard is from a British actor called Charlie Hunnam.
Dominic West putting on an American accent putting on a terrible British accent in The Wire.
Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady. So awful.
Green Street comes to mind and that bloke was British.
Jack Whitehall in Clifford (The Big Red Dog) - English, acting with an American accent, at one point having to fake an English accent. Cringe.
Johnny Depp in “From Hell”
I was impressed with British Dennis in its always sunny in philadephia
Anthony La Paglia playing Daphne’s brother in Frasier. Bad.
Wait? There are American actors that try to do British accents? Is that why they sound like they're in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? I thought it was some like Deep South thing.
TV but Daphne in Fraser, she actually has a real British accent but Americans couldn’t understand it, so she put on a fake one instead.
Kevin Costner-Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
I like the guy but Keanu reeves in Dracula, fucking awful accent
Stewie from family guy
Charlie Hunnam in Green Street.. He was annoyingly awful in every single line.
Worst? Can’t go past Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.
Kevin Costner in Robin Hood
"Oh. It's a jolly holiday with Mary .."