Not trying to be a dick here but it is not widely known because she came to prominence in The X-Files on American TV playing an American character and so was obviously using an American accent, but although she was born in Chicago, her parents moved to London while she was still a baby. Her family then returned to America not long before her teens but they still kept a home in London and used to spend summers here and then in the early 2000s when in her mid-30s, she moved here to London by herself and married a Briton and had two boys with him, so she seems to be able to switch between the two accents.
@@MrLunarlander When Gillian played Thatcher in The Crown, I wanted to hate her (character) because she was so good at that role...but... _I can't_ hate Gillian Anderson!! (But, I still hate M.H.Thatcher ).
Robert Downey jr in Sherlock Holmes Angelina Jolie in Maleficent Elijah wood in lord of the rings Also bridget jones. I cant spell the actress surname All were pretty convincing.
I think acting for the most part is lost in America and I don't think it's a skill issue, it's a culture issue. In America the Actor is the star and actors who have a style like for instance "Christopher Walken" (As a Case study) Has a very unique rhythm and style to his lines delivery and that's what America's love, the people behind the roles. In the UK we are not like that, we don't care about the actors style, we like to see them change themselves into something different. So I think that's the key difference and why you see more and more UK actors landing big roles in movies.
I agree with this, in America it's about the star. Also I read an article from an american director that said American actors are more likely to have an ego, wanting to question decisions, make changes to the character and script. Whereas English actors are more modest, professional and happy to take direction, so directors like to work with them.
Perhaps it stems from our long and illustrious theater history , Shakespeare is about the language , emotions and conveying an idea and story , many layered and subtle at times , the actor is a vehicle for the words , the content is more important than the actor . You serve the words .
I'd personally say that Walken is a very unique case. It's his parent's German that gives his speech such a flavour & we do have that type of actor in Richard Ayoade. The way The Rock & Jack Black for example have been playing roles in the past decade I think highlight your point a lot more.
@@charlielouise2428 I read somewhere once, something alone the lines of.. The British allow famous people to walk on red carpets, while in the US you become famous by walking on one. The concepts of fame between the two are quite dissimilar.
Christian Bale wasn't talking in a cockney accent in that clip. It was more Boston. They just put the wrong clip up. Mojo intentionally do this, so get people like me to comment to the contrary & boost their algorithm
Cary Grant did not hate his Bristolian heritage. He just needed to lose is hard Bristol burr when speaking. He visited home often to visit his mother and for his favourite Fish'n'Chips when back in Bristol. I am a Bristolian and i can still hear a slight Bristol burr when Cary is talking in films
@@hilarymiseroy yes, he's one of the few American actors who can pull off a fairly reasonable generic British accent. He was very good in the two Guy Richie Sherlock Holmes films. I kind of wish they'd do some more Holmes films, they were highly entertaining.
You are correct about Garfield and Elba. Let me just say that, when you said you had "no idea" who Cary Grant is, I almost choked to death. Cary Grant! Bale's accent is more American in that clip.
I think the best American that did a British accent was the guy who played Higgins in the old Magnum PI series. I nearly choked on my cuppa when I found out out he's a Texan.
@@gagada124 Unfair, there are a lot of excellent American actors, it's just the UK ones that make it as far as Hollywood have to have already risen to the top in the UK first
Some British actors are the exception that proves the rule. Sean Connery as the (Scottish) Russian captain in The Hunt for Red October springs to mind.
It’s where the big industry so it attracts the best from around the world. There is an actual reason why it’s infinitely easier for British or Australia actors to put on an American accents, than the other way around. It’s about how sounds are formed - I’m not knowledgeable enough on the subject, but there is plenty of reference available. I have never seen an American put on a respectable Australian accent; and can’t think of one pulling off a successful British accent (lots of British accents to choose from too). This is not the fault of the actor, rather just how they learnt to form sounds.
I have a friend who loved Teachers. I mentioned the donkey once and she was like 'what donkey, I've never seen a donkey'. Funnily enough she was a teacher 😅
Lauren Cohan, who played Maggie, was an odd one. She's American, but spent a lot of her life in England, so she has this weird combination accent of English and American that kinda sounds Australian.
British accents can change quite a bit in just a few miles, even less. I live in Wales and my Welsh accent sounds nothing like my Welsh friend's accent and we're separated by only a few meters in width by a river flowing through adjacent towns, connected only by a couple of bridges between us.
As a Brit I can only name 4 American actors that did perfect British accents and I’m not talking posh English accents that most American actors do and is a dead giveaway as most British people speak with some form of regional twang to their accents. Sean Astin in Lord of Rings is an amazing accent because it is a real regional accent that makes him sound native. Johnny Depp in pirates of the Caribbean does a perfect London cockney accent, Meryl Streep as Margret Thatcher was a perfect imitation of the real woman and Gillian Anderson in sex education, but she now lives in England and speaks with an English accent in real life now.
When I was 19 I spent the summer in the US, working on a summer camp. I picked up the accent pretty quickly, by the time I returned home most Americans who didn't know simply assumed I was American. When I returned to the US the next year it was like a switch went off my head, I flipped from an English accent to American. Even Brits were surprised to learn that I was actually not an American. To this day I can still flip that switch, it makes a great party trick. For me anyway an American accent is particularly easy to imitate. Jeez, we were brought up watching American films, and I watched a lot of films growing up.
I think it's a lot easier for us (Brits) to do an American accent than for an American to sound convincingly British. So much of our entertainment is produced in America that we spend a lot of our lives listening to American accents and picking up the nuances. I think this familiarity probably helps British actors a lot when it comes to doing it themselves, whereas I imagine the amount of exposure Americans get to British accents is comparatively small. Couple that with the fact that the UK has such a ridiculous amount of diverse accents for somewhere so small. If you travel ten miles in any direction they'll be talking in a different accent and have a different word for bread roll.
It’s not that its easier as we have been producing actors who can nail American accents from before we really got that big influx of US content in the late 90’s. Before then it was rare to see a us tv show in prime time on bbc1 or itv1. BBC2 and C4 would have a few more but most US tv wouldnt make it to the uk and when it did was often cheap late night filler. Satellite tv saw more make itsway across as these channels were looking for cheap content but even then mny prefered uk reruns for primetime as us shows outside prime time. So exposure wasnt that great. What plays a bigger part is almost certainly training,. The US system cares way too much about looks and the acting classes they get sent to are almost about creating clones who can just say lines which doesant push their art forward. UK actors have usually done alot of shakespere which is a great training ground and encourage more indivdiuality than gets encouraged in the US. Even Soaps which is often a start in both countries are vastly different, US Soaps especially the daytime ones but also what they call prime time soaps are silly over the top fantasy things that rarely have to call on a serious subject done with seriousness BUT UK soaps constistntly deal with heavy subjects so all actors are constantly pushed to delve deep into themsleves and pull out a performance. They are just encouraged across the board more to take whats on the page and find the charahcter rather than just read out the lines. So they end up being way more adapatable with both accents and finding more than is on the page which makes the charahcter more believable. It’s why the likes of Meryl Streep is so applauded in the US, she approaches things much more like the UK way which makes her perforamces better while so many of those around her are just reading their lines
Couple more for you. The Battlestar Galactica reboot had Jamie Bamber as Apollo he's a Brit. In Sons Of Anarchy the lead character Jax Teller was played by Charlie Hunnam who is also a Brit. Also a lot of the actors in Band Of Brothers where Brits too. Damien Lewis - Dick Winters, Dexter Fletcher - Sgt. Martin, Simon Pegg - First Sgt. Williams, Marc Warren - Pvt. Blythe, Michael Fassbender - Tech Sgt. Christensen, James McAvoy - Pvt. Miller. A hell of a lot of the supporting cast were Brits. Altho to be fair it was filmed in Ireland so there is that.😉 'edited cos I'm a crappy typist'
Idris Elba was raised in Hackney east London, so he has a down to earth East london (Almost Cockney) accent... that's probably what you're picking up on. Andrew Garfield on the other hand was raised in Epsom,Surrey which IS quite a posh and affluent area west of London.
One film with a selection of unusual accent choices is Bram Stoker's Dracula. American Winona Ryder is convincingly English while Canadian Keanu Reeves attempts 'Bloody Hell Mary Poppins' accent. While on the Brit front you have Gary Oldman doing 'Vampire accent' and Anthony Hopkins doing 'Somewhere else in Europe' accent.
@ I wasn’t being shitty. I am however ‘surprised’ by the ‘surprise’ of someone watching a video entitled ‘ 10 Brits who tricked American with Fake Accents’ to the then see the surprise on someone’s face. The clue was in the title.
I’m 35 years old and I never for the life of me knew Kate Winslet’s character in Titanic was supposed to be American! No wonder it ‘wasn’t well received’ 😂😂
when the auditions for Superman were being held, they had actors wear Christopher Reeve's outfit. Henry Cavill was on the only one the team didn't laugh at, he filled it admirably..
As a Brit myself, have got to admit that the (US) American actor *Forrest Whitaker* actually had me fooled into thinking he really was a(n) - ¨MLE-speaking¨ - proper true Londoner, in his role as ( Jaye Davidson´s character ) Dil´s boyfriend Johnnie, a UK soldier stationed in Belfast, in the movie *The Crying Game.* ~💖/💖
I've seen a few Christian Bale interviews and sometimes he sounds American, sometimes completely English and other times a mixture of the two. Apparently he's another actor who keeps a character's accent in between scenes- maybe it's hard to just switch an accent off as soon as filming for a movie ends.
Cary Grant is iconic and in 100 years time people will still be saying his name, unlike the rest of the other actors and actresses featured in this rundown.
It's worth pointing out that this is a Mojo video and as such there's always a bug or two. For example the short clip where Hugh Laurie is speaking in his British accent, he is discussing another show (Avenue 5) in which he plays a Brit masquerading as an American.
I knew Idris was English and the first time I heard his American accent I thought it was one of the worst I’d ever heard. Surprised it fooled actual Americans
Someone mentioned Meryl Streep below.......and there was also Renee Zellwegger in Bridget Jones's Diary and Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love, both of whom did superb British accents.
Idris isn't really "street". But he's more street than posh. So you are right, Loner dude. I actually think that American accents are often easier to do than some fellow British accents because there is often a greater openness in the way many Americans speak. Half the Brit accents are over the top and half are understated. Coming out of the same mouth at the same time. Personally, despite being English, I love Scottish accents because they have so much solidity, enunciatiion and passion.
There are a lot, truth be told. No Americans have succeeded as far as I know - Dick van Dyke 🤣😂? Worth checking out how many of the cast of the Walking Dead or Band of Brothers were Brits. Damien Lewis should be in this list.
Andrew accent is a PR accent, the usual accent you'll hear on BBC news and its best known from London and the counties surrounding London, its also more middle class and upper class, and tends to be from "posher" areas, Surrey is a posher area. I have a PR accent as well, I'm from a county next to London. While Idris sounds more like a cockney accent but also from London but tends to be seen as a "working class" accent. But saying all this, its not like we just go, I'm from this working class area so I'll speak like this, it just depends on who you grew up with. I don't speak, trying to sound "posh" and I don't hear it either, since my accent sounds normal to me, and I see a different accent, which is seen as a "upper class" accent as posh, not my own or Andrews, who could also be described as a "middle class" accent as well.
16:00 Americans playing brits or Irish generally just sound wrong.. there are definitely compilations of bad accents done by many. Not sure about good ones, then again I'm not great at identifying celebrities so im sure if there were many I would have just missed them😂
You need to see Kevin Kline in 2024's Apple TV series Disclaimer, it wasn't until the end of the first episode when I saw the credits did I realise it was him I was watching. I've always thought he was underrated but in this his British accent fooled me completely.
He recently said he wished he had spent more time getting the cockney accent of Bert in 'Mary Poppins' right. But it's regarded with some affection in the UK, so I don't think it matters. I can't imagine the film without it, tbh.
I'd say one of the most successful Americans to pull off the British accent is renée zellweger in bridget Jones diary series of films, not only has she done 4 now (4th one is being released soon) but she also narrates them and you're right that brits normally can (and will) call out people who are faking... especially if they're doing a bad job HOWEVER I will say that she has the typical RP accent in the films which is a lot easier and isn't an accent that is from a certain location so is easier for people to do, even brits who struggle with other accents lol Gwyneth Paltrow has also done the English accent including the film sliding doors. Johnny Depp has done certain roles with exaggerated versions of more local accents due to the actual characters he is playing but he actually speaks with an English twang when talking normally these days, maybe due to being around so many brits in his team and his friends, he also spends a lot of time here and from the small amount people got to know about him during the depp v heard trial we can all see he likes British humour and watches a lot of British comedy. He would easily be able to pull off a serious role with a local dialect in my opinion. What a lot of Americans don't understand is how many accents we have here and people aren't exaggerating when they say in some areas you can tell which side of the street you grew up on, northern Ireland especially. Accents can change every few miles and people from my closest city 14 miles away speak completely different to me, accents also change with class, education and age too so for any actors out there who are wanting/planning on doing a British accent ask a few simple questions. 1. Which town (not area) is the character from? 2. When is the show/play/film set? Accents changed on the era 3. The class and age of the person.
What! Personally I thought Peter Dinklage English accent was barely two steps up than Dick Van Dyke’s English accent. Ok, maybe three steps up as it was that bad.
It's a bit of a meaningless troll comment, since half of the British population doesn't even have decent command of the English language -- nor do Americans for that matter.
if you are an Idris Elba enjoyer i suggest watching the magnificent British show Luther , boy that is good. (Idris from London so he does have what we call ''Cockney Slang")
7:20 Absolutely, Idras v much has a commoner London accent.. Different areas have different accents. I think NY has similar with Queens/Bronx, though there is less seperating the different areas of London and more accents.
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As a Brit, if you want an American actor who does a really convincing British accent - Gillian Anderson
Not trying to be a dick here but it is not widely known because she came to prominence in The X-Files on American TV playing an American character and so was obviously using an American accent, but although she was born in Chicago, her parents moved to London while she was still a baby.
Her family then returned to America not long before her teens but they still kept a home in London and used to spend summers here and then in the early 2000s when in her mid-30s, she moved here to London by herself and married a Briton and had two boys with him, so she seems to be able to switch between the two accents.
@@MrLunarlander
When Gillian played Thatcher in The Crown,
I wanted to hate her (character) because she was so good at that role...but... _I can't_ hate Gillian Anderson!!
(But, I still hate M.H.Thatcher ).
Robert Downey jr in Sherlock Holmes
Angelina Jolie in Maleficent
Elijah wood in lord of the rings
Also bridget jones. I cant spell the actress surname
All were pretty convincing.
@@danf3576 you misses Charlie Hunnam who played Jax Teller in sons of anarchy
@@OriginalOwner777 isnt that the other way around though? Charlie hunam is english playing an american
They really left out James McAvoy who’s Scottish but goes through about 4 different American dialect in one single scene in Split and did it perfectly
James Mcavoy is so underrated!
@@loners4life Also Charlie Hunnam who played Jax Teller was one they missed
Also They missed Damien Lewis from Band Of Brothers (British) as was half the cast! 😆
I was in NYC 2016, And spotted him walking around ground zero by himself.
He went to the same school as the Prince of Wales, Eton college.
@@Casshern2010 I saw Bob Langley in Central Park in 1979...
I re-watched the series recently, and was shocked to see Simon Pegg in it (first couple of episodes).
His scouse accent is atrocious
I think acting for the most part is lost in America and I don't think it's a skill issue, it's a culture issue.
In America the Actor is the star and actors who have a style like for instance "Christopher Walken" (As a Case study) Has a very unique rhythm and style to his lines delivery and that's what America's love, the people behind the roles.
In the UK we are not like that, we don't care about the actors style, we like to see them change themselves into something different.
So I think that's the key difference and why you see more and more UK actors landing big roles in movies.
I agree with this, in America it's about the star. Also I read an article from an american director that said American actors are more likely to have an ego, wanting to question decisions, make changes to the character and script. Whereas English actors are more modest, professional and happy to take direction, so directors like to work with them.
Perhaps it stems from our long and illustrious theater history , Shakespeare is about the language , emotions and conveying an idea and story , many layered and subtle at times , the actor is a vehicle for the words , the content is more important than the actor . You serve the words .
I'd personally say that Walken is a very unique case. It's his parent's German that gives his speech such a flavour & we do have that type of actor in Richard Ayoade.
The way The Rock & Jack Black for example have been playing roles in the past decade I think highlight your point a lot more.
@@charlielouise2428 I read somewhere once, something alone the lines of.. The British allow famous people to walk on red carpets, while in the US you become famous by walking on one. The concepts of fame between the two are quite dissimilar.
I was not aware of this perspective - very interesting stuff - thanks for the insight 👏
Christian Bale wasn't talking in a cockney accent in that clip. It was more Boston. They just put the wrong clip up. Mojo intentionally do this, so get people like me to comment to the contrary & boost their algorithm
i think the term you are looking for to describe Idris Elba's accent is working-class
Idris is great an' 'e's a Lunduner, inny?! 💕
Cockney. Eastender.
If I were to guess, Idris has an MLE accent.
I describe it as East London Bouncer or East London Drug dealer.
@@ianstopher9111no not at all lmao I would just say working class i guess, mle is quite different to his accent
Meryl Streep gave a superb performance in the French Lieutenant's Woman. Her English was spot on!
Cary Grant did not hate his Bristolian heritage. He just needed to lose is hard Bristol burr when speaking. He visited home often to visit his mother and for his favourite Fish'n'Chips when back in Bristol.
I am a Bristolian and i can still hear a slight Bristol burr when Cary is talking in films
Check out 'A bit of Fry and Laurie' to see Hugh Laurie's earlier work - it was the top comedy sketch show on British TV in its day.
Robert Downey Jr playing the English Charlie Chaplin comes to mind for the reverse.
Renee Zellweger
and when he played Sherlock Holmes. Johnny Depp is another actor who springs to mind.
@@hilarymiseroy yes, he's one of the few American actors who can pull off a fairly reasonable generic British accent.
He was very good in the two Guy Richie Sherlock Holmes films.
I kind of wish they'd do some more Holmes films, they were highly entertaining.
But what was his accent in"Dr Dolittle"?😂
@ Beats the shit outta me, I've never seen it.
You are correct about Garfield and Elba.
Let me just say that, when you said you had "no idea" who Cary Grant is, I almost choked to death. Cary Grant!
Bale's accent is more American in that clip.
Haha, guess they then also have never heared from Humphrey Bogart.
Calm down.
7:22 i think you mean Andrew sounds more formal, and Idris sounds more informal.
Yea it is that but also u can sound pretty formal with out sounding posh tho especially that post lol
I think the best American that did a British accent was the guy who played Higgins in the old Magnum PI series. I nearly choked on my cuppa when I found out out he's a Texan.
British actors can act, US actors just play themselves.
@@gagada124 Unfair, there are a lot of excellent American actors, it's just the UK ones that make it as far as Hollywood have to have already risen to the top in the UK first
Some British actors are the exception that proves the rule. Sean Connery as the (Scottish) Russian captain in The Hunt for Red October springs to mind.
@@GrumpyOldGit-zk1kwto be fair though, he’s a Scot playing a Russian in that 😂
There are numerous great actors from America but there are film stars and there are actors.
It’s where the big industry so it attracts the best from around the world.
There is an actual reason why it’s infinitely easier for British or Australia actors to put on an American accents, than the other way around. It’s about how sounds are formed - I’m not knowledgeable enough on the subject, but there is plenty of reference available.
I have never seen an American put on a respectable Australian accent; and can’t think of one pulling off a successful British accent (lots of British accents to choose from too). This is not the fault of the actor, rather just how they learnt to form sounds.
The show they mentioned called 'Teachers' that Andrew Lincoln was in was brilliant, well worth a watch for anyone who's never seen it.
I am surprised that This Life was not mentioned, as it was one of the earliest programmes he was in on British television.
good shout
@@seanscanlon9067 It was a great show too
I have a friend who loved Teachers. I mentioned the donkey once and she was like 'what donkey, I've never seen a donkey'. Funnily enough she was a teacher 😅
He'll always be egg from this life for me
The governor in The Walking Dead was British, too. And the woman who used the mask made of skin.
Morgan too.
Lauren Cohan, who played Maggie, was an odd one. She's American, but spent a lot of her life in England, so she has this weird combination accent of English and American that kinda sounds Australian.
Jesus and Jadis are also British :)
@ Jesus. I didn’t know that
British accents can change quite a bit in just a few miles, even less. I live in Wales and my Welsh accent sounds nothing like my Welsh friend's accent and we're separated by only a few meters in width by a river flowing through adjacent towns, connected only by a couple of bridges between us.
As a Brit I can only name 4 American actors that did perfect British accents and I’m not talking posh English accents that most American actors do and is a dead giveaway as most British people speak with some form of regional twang to their accents. Sean Astin in Lord of Rings is an amazing accent because it is a real regional accent that makes him sound native. Johnny Depp in pirates of the Caribbean does a perfect London cockney accent, Meryl Streep as Margret Thatcher was a perfect imitation of the real woman and Gillian Anderson in sex education, but she now lives in England and speaks with an English accent in real life now.
Do you watch Yellowstone? Beth is British too.
When I was 19 I spent the summer in the US, working on a summer camp. I picked up the accent pretty quickly, by the time I returned home most Americans who didn't know simply assumed I was American. When I returned to the US the next year it was like a switch went off my head, I flipped from an English accent to American. Even Brits were surprised to learn that I was actually not an American. To this day I can still flip that switch, it makes a great party trick. For me anyway an American accent is particularly easy to imitate. Jeez, we were brought up watching American films, and I watched a lot of films growing up.
I think it's a lot easier for us (Brits) to do an American accent than for an American to sound convincingly British. So much of our entertainment is produced in America that we spend a lot of our lives listening to American accents and picking up the nuances. I think this familiarity probably helps British actors a lot when it comes to doing it themselves, whereas I imagine the amount of exposure Americans get to British accents is comparatively small.
Couple that with the fact that the UK has such a ridiculous amount of diverse accents for somewhere so small. If you travel ten miles in any direction they'll be talking in a different accent and have a different word for bread roll.
It’s not that its easier as we have been producing actors who can nail American accents from before we really got that big influx of US content in the late 90’s. Before then it was rare to see a us tv show in prime time on bbc1 or itv1. BBC2 and C4 would have a few more but most US tv wouldnt make it to the uk and when it did was often cheap late night filler. Satellite tv saw more make itsway across as these channels were looking for cheap content but even then mny prefered uk reruns for primetime as us shows outside prime time. So exposure wasnt that great.
What plays a bigger part is almost certainly training,. The US system cares way too much about looks and the acting classes they get sent to are almost about creating clones who can just say lines which doesant push their art forward. UK actors have usually done alot of shakespere which is a great training ground and encourage more indivdiuality than gets encouraged in the US. Even Soaps which is often a start in both countries are vastly different, US Soaps especially the daytime ones but also what they call prime time soaps are silly over the top fantasy things that rarely have to call on a serious subject done with seriousness BUT UK soaps constistntly deal with heavy subjects so all actors are constantly pushed to delve deep into themsleves and pull out a performance. They are just encouraged across the board more to take whats on the page and find the charahcter rather than just read out the lines. So they end up being way more adapatable with both accents and finding more than is on the page which makes the charahcter more believable. It’s why the likes of Meryl Streep is so applauded in the US, she approaches things much more like the UK way which makes her perforamces better while so many of those around her are just reading their lines
Couple more for you.
The Battlestar Galactica reboot had Jamie Bamber as Apollo he's a Brit.
In Sons Of Anarchy the lead character Jax Teller was played by Charlie Hunnam who is also a Brit.
Also a lot of the actors in Band Of Brothers where Brits too.
Damien Lewis - Dick Winters, Dexter Fletcher - Sgt. Martin, Simon Pegg - First Sgt. Williams, Marc Warren - Pvt. Blythe, Michael Fassbender - Tech Sgt. Christensen, James McAvoy - Pvt. Miller.
A hell of a lot of the supporting cast were Brits.
Altho to be fair it was filmed in Ireland so there is that.😉 'edited cos I'm a crappy typist'
Idris Elba was raised in Hackney east London, so he has a down to earth East london (Almost Cockney) accent... that's probably what you're picking up on.
Andrew Garfield on the other hand was raised in Epsom,Surrey which IS quite a posh and affluent area west of London.
'ackney 😁
'ackney.😁
Yeah, Surry is a posher suburb outside of South London whereas South London is more 'streetwise'
One film with a selection of unusual accent choices is Bram Stoker's Dracula. American Winona Ryder is convincingly English while Canadian Keanu Reeves attempts 'Bloody Hell Mary Poppins' accent. While on the Brit front you have Gary Oldman doing 'Vampire accent' and Anthony Hopkins doing 'Somewhere else in Europe' accent.
‘He’s British?’
Watching a video about British actors who are playing Americans.
Ffs
It's called being 'surprised'. No need to be shitty ffs
@ I wasn’t being shitty. I am however ‘surprised’ by the ‘surprise’ of someone watching a video entitled ‘ 10 Brits who tricked American with Fake Accents’ to the then see the surprise on someone’s face.
The clue was in the title.
Gillian Anderson always surprises being posh english
I’m 35 years old and I never for the life of me knew Kate Winslet’s character in Titanic was supposed to be American! No wonder it ‘wasn’t well received’ 😂😂
How you just dismissed Cary Grant who was a fantastic Actor!
Top class.
when the auditions for Superman were being held, they had actors wear Christopher Reeve's outfit. Henry Cavill was on the only one the team didn't laugh at, he filled it admirably..
R.I.P. Christopher Reeve.
Garfield:Middle class southern counties accent
Elba:Working class London accent
As a Brit myself, have got to admit that the (US) American actor *Forrest Whitaker* actually had me fooled into thinking he really was a(n) - ¨MLE-speaking¨ - proper true Londoner, in his role as ( Jaye Davidson´s character ) Dil´s boyfriend Johnnie, a UK soldier stationed in Belfast, in the movie *The Crying Game.* ~💖/💖
I've seen a few Christian Bale interviews and sometimes he sounds American, sometimes completely English and other times a mixture of the two. Apparently he's another actor who keeps a character's accent in between scenes- maybe it's hard to just switch an accent off as soon as filming for a movie ends.
Ironic really, since he's Welsh!
Did you actually say you didn't know who Cary Grant was?!!!?
I'm hoping they meant they didn't know who Kate Winslet was!
Cary Grant is iconic and in 100 years time people will still be saying his name, unlike the rest of the other actors and actresses featured in this rundown.
Bob Hope was born in London
the actor i didn't know that
How about Charlie Chaplin? Not that he said much in many of his movies, but a lot of people think he was american, being such an icon for Hollywood.
John barrowman can swap between his American accent and his Scottish accent at the drop of a hat.
In the walking dead…
Rick is British
Maggie is British
Morgan Jones is British
And don’t forget the governer..
Jesus too..
My deer lady, the actor played twins he’s name is Tom Hardy this film called Legend.
That’s such a good movie!
British actors=talent
American actors=looks.
7:40 100%. We would say his accent was "more common".
You’re right mate. Garfield sounds more middle class, Elba has more of a common working class sounding accent.
It's worth pointing out that this is a Mojo video and as such there's always a bug or two. For example the short clip where Hugh Laurie is speaking in his British accent, he is discussing another show (Avenue 5) in which he plays a Brit masquerading as an American.
Yeah, just talk all over the video in your Alaskan Puerto Rican accents
im a Brit and even i didnt know that Rick Grimes was played by an Englishman haha dammm
I knew Idris was English and the first time I heard his American accent I thought it was one of the worst I’d ever heard. Surprised it fooled actual Americans
'Tricked'? Lol! It's called frigging 'acting'!
Damson Idris who played Snowfall is from Peckham and has Nigerian parents
There are lots of British actors in Tv and movies that people think are American.
Lead actor for House MD.
@@gerardflynn7382 That was Hugh Laurie who was last to be mentioned on this video.
Someone mentioned Meryl Streep below.......and there was also Renee Zellwegger in Bridget Jones's Diary and Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love, both of whom did superb British accents.
what you were trying to say is the garfield sounds middle/upper class,elba sounds working class.
Idris Elba has quite a “ posh” London accent… the UK has many many local accents.
There were a couple of Brits in The Wire, as there was in the Walking Dead, Band of Brothers.
Aboslutely, Damian Lewis, James McAvoy, Dexter Fletcher, Michael Fassbender. The Wire, had Idris Elba, Dominic West, Aiden Gillen
More than a couple
@@KC-gy5xw Not sure Aiden will appreciate being called British as he is from Dublin, but he did play a mean mayor.
@@KC-gy5xw Fassbender and Gillen are Irish, not British
Andrew Lincoln was Egg in This Life, a huge UK drama series about a group of lawyers that did loads of drugs.
Tricked?
Those pesky tricksters. Remember when Harrison Ford tricked us into thinking he was an archaeologist?
Idris isn't really "street". But he's more street than posh. So you are right, Loner dude. I actually think that American accents are often easier to do than some fellow British accents because there is often a greater openness in the way many Americans speak. Half the Brit accents are over the top and half are understated. Coming out of the same mouth at the same time. Personally, despite being English, I love Scottish accents because they have so much solidity, enunciatiion and passion.
There are a lot, truth be told. No Americans have succeeded as far as I know - Dick van Dyke 🤣😂? Worth checking out how many of the cast of the Walking Dead or Band of Brothers were Brits. Damien Lewis should be in this list.
Like the way Fanny flicks her eyebrow up.
Tessa Thompson and James Marsters both American and do fantastic British accents
Andrew accent is a PR accent, the usual accent you'll hear on BBC news and its best known from London and the counties surrounding London, its also more middle class and upper class, and tends to be from "posher" areas, Surrey is a posher area. I have a PR accent as well, I'm from a county next to London.
While Idris sounds more like a cockney accent but also from London but tends to be seen as a "working class" accent. But saying all this, its not like we just go, I'm from this working class area so I'll speak like this, it just depends on who you grew up with. I don't speak, trying to sound "posh" and I don't hear it either, since my accent sounds normal to me, and I see a different accent, which is seen as a "upper class" accent as posh, not my own or Andrews, who could also be described as a "middle class" accent as well.
youre right about idris and andrew idris is from london and more street than andrew who probably grew up in the burbs.
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Americans playing brits or Irish generally just sound wrong.. there are definitely compilations of bad accents done by many. Not sure about good ones, then again I'm not great at identifying celebrities so im sure if there were many I would have just missed them😂
Yeah, well what about Dicky Van Dyke in Chitty? It's like he was from Poplar or Plaistow. A true cockney geezer..
You need to see Kevin Kline in 2024's Apple TV series Disclaimer, it wasn't until the end of the first episode when I saw the credits did I realise it was him I was watching. I've always thought he was underrated but in this his British accent fooled me completely.
Please Please don't mention Dick Van Dyke
DVD😂
He recently said he wished he had spent more time getting the cockney accent of Bert in 'Mary Poppins' right. But it's regarded with some affection in the UK, so I don't think it matters. I can't imagine the film without it, tbh.
Talk about low energy 😂
My first experience of seeing Eddie Marsan was in Ray Donovan. I had no idea he was British until seeing an interview with him.
I'd say one of the most successful Americans to pull off the British accent is renée zellweger in bridget Jones diary series of films, not only has she done 4 now (4th one is being released soon) but she also narrates them and you're right that brits normally can (and will) call out people who are faking... especially if they're doing a bad job HOWEVER I will say that she has the typical RP accent in the films which is a lot easier and isn't an accent that is from a certain location so is easier for people to do, even brits who struggle with other accents lol
Gwyneth Paltrow has also done the English accent including the film sliding doors.
Johnny Depp has done certain roles with exaggerated versions of more local accents due to the actual characters he is playing but he actually speaks with an English twang when talking normally these days, maybe due to being around so many brits in his team and his friends, he also spends a lot of time here and from the small amount people got to know about him during the depp v heard trial we can all see he likes British humour and watches a lot of British comedy. He would easily be able to pull off a serious role with a local dialect in my opinion.
What a lot of Americans don't understand is how many accents we have here and people aren't exaggerating when they say in some areas you can tell which side of the street you grew up on, northern Ireland especially. Accents can change every few miles and people from my closest city 14 miles away speak completely different to me, accents also change with class, education and age too so for any actors out there who are wanting/planning on doing a British accent ask a few simple questions. 1. Which town (not area) is the character from? 2. When is the show/play/film set? Accents changed on the era 3. The class and age of the person.
You never saw Titanic? .. Holy shit ... watch it immediately lol :-)
American actors that Brits thought were British, the complete list:
and that's all of them.
I've heard quite a few people thought peter dinklage was british after seeing him in game of thrones, that is the only one i can think of though.
What! Personally I thought Peter Dinklage English accent was barely two steps up than Dick Van Dyke’s English accent. Ok, maybe three steps up as it was that bad.
Renee Zellweger was really good. Loads of Brits thought she was actually British.
William Hurt didn't cut the mustard huh?
It's a bit of a meaningless troll comment, since half of the British population doesn't even have decent command of the English language -- nor do Americans for that matter.
technical point. Lynda's mic level? She sounds like she's in the next room compared to yours.
Gwenyth Paltrow did a good English accent in sliding doors.
MOST BRITISH PEOPLE, HAVE SEEN MANY OF THESE ACTORS ON BRITISH TV OR FILMS, YES THEY CAN CLOCG IT, OR WHATEVER YOU SAID.
We're sending in a search party to rescue him.
You should watch North By Northwest (Cary Grant). It's a classic thriller by Alfred Hitchcock.
‘Fake accents’ …acting. You’re thinking of acting
if you are an Idris Elba enjoyer i suggest watching the magnificent British show Luther , boy that is good. (Idris from London so he does have what we call ''Cockney Slang")
You're right, both the English Spidermen are from Surrey - stockbroker country
Lets not forget Morgan,Maggie,Alpha,Jesus,The Governor ,Nick(fear the WD,) Jadis and probably quite a few more are all British.
Have you checked out the Brit Ren - Hi Ren yet? It's a 9 minute video about mental health.
That Christian Bale interview is not his own accent
I think the term to use to describe Idris Elba as in British slang would be geezer
Lincoln, walking dead he was in Love Actually.
Freddie Highmore in The Good Doctor? He's a Brit actor
reality check the world is not from new york to california hahahahahha
Idris Elba is an East London guy of West African parents. He sounds like a Londoner while Holland is from the Home Counties.
The narrators accent in the watch mojo video is from Newcastle, England
catherine zeta jones she is Welsh. people think she is American
Mare of Easttown is the best series I have ever watched. I have watched it four times I think.
his early work , check out human traffic .4:00 not main charictur tho
BRITISH ACTORS IS VERY RECENT, 15 YEARS, BEFORE THAT YOU WOULD OT SEE A BRITISH ACTOR ITH AN AMERICAN ACCENT.
Check out Daniel Ezra who plays Spencer James on All American.
Good to see you yawning again Linda. Have you ever checked out Hugh Laurie (House) in Blackadder?
What about Dominic West who played Jimmy McNulty in The Wire?
Idris Elba is from Hackney in East London. It's certainly not a posh area.
I remember following 'Big Driiis' on MySpace when he was still a DJ!
Henry Cavill was in The Witcher TV series.
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Absolutely, Idras v much has a commoner London accent.. Different areas have different accents. I think NY has similar with Queens/Bronx, though there is less seperating the different areas of London and more accents.
Gareth bale father wasn't English he was south African so Gareth bale is Welsh not English
but South African .
Robert Patterson
You don't know who Cary Grant is? Weird.
THE CRAY TWINS, TOM HARDY, BRITISH GANGTERS.
Kray.