The Worst On-Screen Accents Of All Time
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- Опубліковано 17 лип 2024
- Great actors become great because they take big risks and make bold character choices. It makes them stand out and it prevents them from being typecast and pigeonholed into playing the same character trope throughout their career.
However, sometimes taking risks and making bold choices can lead to a star actor falling flat on their face. There are many ways it can happen. One is when a star actor takes on characters who have different accents from their own.
Actors can employ accent coaches and spend hours practicing an accent to get a feel for its cadence but if they don’t have an ear for it, it could be trouble. Here are the worst on-screen accents of all time.
#Worst #Movies #Actors
Gerard Butler | 0:00
Keanu Reeves | 1:07
John Malkovich | 2:00
Brad Pitt | 2:43
Kevin Costner | 3:21
Cameron Diaz | 3:58
Angelina Jolie | 4:31
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Mickey Rourke's Whiplash? Halle Berry's Storm? What other actors' fake accents should've made this list?
Looper Chris Pine's character in disguise during Wonder Woman.
Tom Cruise in Far and Away (Great movie and Cruise is good other than his accent) Dick Van Dyke in Marry Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (unless somewhere in England they talk like that) Dana Carvey in Master of Disguise (need I say more?) And lastly Sean Connery in Hunt for Red October. (Love this movie and love Connery in it but let's face it his "Russian" accent is no good.)
Although the fake accent is not the worst part of the performance, Mickey Rooney's accent in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" was completely wrong. Check out makeup artist Kazuhiro Tsuji's acceptance speech from this year's Oscar ceremony. That's the authentic Japanese accent. Believe me, I am a Japanese myself with the same thick accent. ;)
Sophie turner x-men apocalypse
How did Richard Gere in The Jackal not make this list?
What IS a British accent? Are we talking Glaswegian or Cornish? East Belfast or East End London?
Lol that usually bugs me too when yanks say British accent meaning English accent. I'm from Dundee, they're in for a shock if they are expecting me to sound bloody English 😂.
No such thing as "British accent" there are however British *accents*.
I see Americans confusing Britain with England all the time. If you are English, you are British.
If you're British, you could be from anywhere in Great Britain, not just England. It's that simple.
I saw an American post a meme where a bunch of countries were against GB. It showed men
pointing swords at a map & they were labelled as countries, including Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales...
@@solongsuicide9 reminds me of news reporting: if it's bad it's Britain; if it's good it's England.
Kevin Costner didn't even attempt an english accent in Robin Hood.
Not always just bad accents, but sometimes bad films too !!
Now you need to do actors whose LACK of an accent on film is so well done, when you hear them speaking off camera, you have no idea they are the same person. Hugo Weaving, Hugh Jackman, Michael Fassbender, James Mcavoy, and Tom Hiddleston are some that come to mind.
lol define "lack of an accent"? It's always an accent to somebody.
And COOOORAAAL Rick Grimes
Please add Mark Addy to this. His American accent is so good in the series Still Standing, I was shocked to learn he is British!
Gale Christensen Fassbender sucks 🤭🤪
I would say Christian Bale too. I literally thought he was American for like 5 years.
Tommy Wiseau's actual accent?
4saken404 😂😂😂
4saken404
LOL
Lmao
Brad nailed Snatch so good he could fuck up 100 accents and I still wouldn’t be mad.
Nic Cage's southern accent in ConAir. Dear lord it still haunts me to this day.
A T 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
Julia Roberts in "Mary Reilly" is a must for the top 10 worst accents. She verily sucks in that movie. She verily sucks in lots of stuff, but her Mary Reilly is uber bad.
Ian Thaddiam I forgot all about that movie but watched it all the time
Is that verily so?
You're right, Jolie didn't sound anything like an ancient Macedonian who learned to speak English but with that endearing ancient Macedonian lilt. Nothing at all.
Source: I have a number of ancient Macedonian friends who speak some English.
As an Irish person Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman's irish accents in Far and Away are absolutely diabolical
What about Jennifer Lawrence in Red Sparrow?😁
Could tell from the 30 second commercial its terrible hahaha
Secret UA-camr I swear 😂😂
Jennifer's sexy Russian accent had me going.
It's gorgeous
Secret UA-camr YES!
Brad Pitt's Belfast accent in The Devil's Own isn't actually that terrible. You can tell he at least made an effort to be accurate, rather than doing some silly, diddly dee 'Oirish' accent.
Wynona Rider's English accent was bad enough in Francis Coppola's Dracula, but Keanu Reeves was so awful it pretty much ruined the film for me.
I think Wynona's accent was actually worse; it's just that critics hate on Keanu.
Was it Family Guy that made fun of her accent (and acting I guess) with the "That would be MOUST GOOOOOD" bit ?
Naomi Malone The film really was gorgeously well made. I have no clue why Coppola didn't some one else to play Jonathon. Like Carry Elwes, for example ("unlike _some_ Robin Hoods, _I_ can speak with an English accent!" Lol) :)
oh thank god the first times I watched it I never realized it since I couldn't tell english accents apart. Now that I watched it again, it distracted me a little too much to enjoy. So sad that they did this.. I feel like if they dubbed maybe it wouldn't even sound as terrible.
Nomi Malone
LEAVE MY SWEET KEANU ALONE NOW
YOUVE BEEN WARNED
I don't agree with Angelina jolie being on this list. for one, her character, Olympia, came from a different land than her husband, therefore giving her an accent helped indicate that she was a foreigner to them. that's why she wasn't well-liked when her marriage was arranged with Philip. they didn't like that she was different. also, we DON'T KNOW what ancient Macedonians sounded like! we literally cannot be sure about that. everyone in the movie had their own accent, bc it was hard to pin down any particular accent, therefore jolie making a strong attempt to sound different was actually good of her. and I didn't think Brad Pitt sounded terrible in Devil's Own. I admit that his accent wasn't perfect, tho, but he did a strong attempt.
I would have liked to hear more of the accents than just two or three lines.
Anne Hathaway's attempt at a Yorkshire accent in "One Day."
Benedict Cumberbatch's Boston accent was pretty bad.
@Alessandro Moraldo - Oh my gosh! When did he attempt a Southern accent? I must hear this!
He briefly played a slaveowner in 12 Years a Slave for a small portion of the movie. The movie is so intense and dramatic that whether or not Benedict did a good Southern accent is not the main thing you remember.
A couple of these films were about people who didn't speak modern English in any kind of English/American/Aussie accent. Robin Hood would have spoken Old English which is close to German. The worst thing about most of the historical movies is that they don't have a standard accent for the whole cast. Robin Hood didn't have to have a received English accent. They just needed to have one agreed on accent for them all. If they wanted to have some sort of Greek accent in "Alexander" they should have developed one and taught it to everyone.
If you are going to take the piss out of Gerard Butler for his accent at least get his name right. Same with the pronunciation of Nottingham.
Fi H that’s I pronounce Nottingham that way, and to be fair, we do not know how it was said hundreds of years ago, words change🤷🏼♀️
I thought Costner wasn't even trying to do any accents in Robin Hood... Was he??!! :o
I'm pretty sure the story was that he tried to when they started filming, but it was so bad that the director told him not to bother and just use his own accent.
I was thinking this too! Lol if he was trying to do an accent, he must not've been trying very hard. If the other story is true, it's probably for the best :P
@Finn Heard the same thing.
Sean Connery in hunt for red October. Harrison Ford in Widowmaker. Seems the Jones boys can't pull off Russian accents in submarines
Sean Connery in the Red October, Untouchables, Highlander, you name it almost never played a person from a place that his accent resembled.
chrismc177 but Connery did a convincing Irish american accent, It depends on the dialect
hahah I KNEW Dracula would be in there! mind you, Winona Ryders accent in that movie makes me want to punch something.
:D
For Brits nothing quite eclipses Dick Van Dyke's attempt at a London Cockney accent in the 1965 Mary Poppins (yes, films were invented before 1990!).
LOL the way he pronances "Gerard" is hilarious!
WOW I LUV YOUR BRIDDISH ACCENT YOU SOUND JUST LIKE DANEYULL CREGG!!!
It's actually quite well known that Kevin Costner flat out refused to speak with a British accent in the movie Prince of Thieves. There was no attempt made to even try it out at the beginning of the shoot. Either way, accent or no accent, Kevin Costner was seriously miscast in the role of Robin Hood. It's a shame too because Alan Rickman is amazing in the movie. Rickman is so over the top in his performance as the Sherif of Nottingham and it's a real trip to watch.
Keanu is a fantastic actor but, in "The Devil's Advocate" I remember his character he was portraying Kevin Lomax had a southern accent but toward the end of the film the accent seems to vanish.
Kevin Costner never spoke in an English accent. That's why in Robin Hood Men in Tights there's a line that goes "unlike other Robin Hoods, I can speak in an English accent." It's making fun that Kevin Costner never even tried to do an accent.
Quentin Tarantino in Django Unchained.
Linda Roy lmao yup
He isn't an actor primarily, but yeah that was bad
Linda Roy That's bcuz he can't act..
he makes ok movies but he's kind of cucky guy
I think it me three viewings before I realised he was supposed to be Australian (I think).
Will you do one of these with actors trying to do Southern accents? A lousy Southern accent is a huge distraction for me.
🤣🤣🤣 Kevin Costner obviously did not give a shnat!! ‘I’m Robin Hood, and he’s now American!’ Great video montage 🤩
To be fair, they certainly wouldn't be speaking with modern English accents either. The English spoken would be difficult to understand. You'd need an English to English translation.
While watching Alexander when I was younger I used to wonder aswell why his mother (Jolie) sounded so different from everybody else lol
i watched that robin hood movie probably dozens of times when i was a kid and it just came out on VHS, i never knew until now he tied to fake an accent in that lmao.
What about Leo di Caprio in "The Man in the Iron Mask"?Oh,and man commentator..it's Nottingem not Nottingham .
John Malkovich's accent may not be on point, he was still an entertaining character.
Well, Macedonian is Slavic language, so she did it on point.
Zoe Kouf 😂😂😂😂 Really!? Learn history!
Ah yes Alexander Makedonski and the famous Slavonic kingdoms of his successors
You missed Cameron Diaz career ending accent in the 2013 Bomb " The Counsellor" The Studios FORCED HER BACK TO DUB OVER HER BAD JAMAICAN ACCENT!!! NOW SHE SAYS SHE'S RETIRED FROM ACTING!!! LOL!!!
Common guys, you forgot about:
- Dick Van Dyke - Mary Poppins
- Audrey Hepburn - My Fair Lady (That Cockney accent... horrible casting)
- Sean Connery - Every single movie where he played a non-Scottish character... he doesn't even tries to sound differently
- Every single american actor that ever tried for a Russian accent !!!
Anna M. Except for Mickey Rourke in IRON MAN 2. He fucking NAILED the Russian accent.
If y’all wanna hear some awful accents, go watch some Hollywood southern accents. As a southerner they make me cringe every time
One accent i have yet to hear a convincing accent of that doesn't make the person sound like they are for the most part dutch or An Australian gone wrong is the South African Accent. The accent they are usually trying going for is someone who speaks Afrikaans as their first language. Which just leave me cringing when I hear them speak.
Leo DiCaprio just did not make it in BLOOD DIAMONDS, "did he bro?" or was that "did he bru?"
technically the default south african accent should be the one spoken by the majority of people in south africa. i can never tel why its the dutch infused accent that's being used as a sample. as half southern african , i think its borderline racist.
This could've been a list about Keanu Reeves all by himself.
Charlie Hunnam in Green Street Hooligans
Interestingly, when the Brad Pitt movie came out, theater critics asked Irish Americans in a bar in Boston how accurate his accent was. They said it sucked. When they asked Irish people in an Irish pub in Ireland, they said it was fine.
I just like how Malkovich confessed his sins to Damon. Hilarious.
Katee Sackhoff, as awesome as she is,
does a TEEEEEERIBLE English accent on the Flash TV show.
her character returned in this weeks episode so its still fresh and painful on my brain. XD
Yes,Agreed about Costner's accent in "Robin Hood.." However, not everyone from SoCal talks like a surfer. In fact,we have people(& accents) from all over the world.
I laughed so much when I watched Bram Stokers Dracula. I couldn’t believe Keanus accent. So bad
Being a fan of Keanu, I do have to agree with you. It's arguably one of the worst movie accents my ears have witnessed.
Prince Of Thieves is a good movie honestly. and there was a game, that was difficult af on the NES. I loved both as a kid.
It's a fantastic film and people take it too seriously. So what if Costner isn't doing a modern English accent (which they most certainly would not be speaking at that time)? It's a fun film, and a great ride. "F*** me, he cleared it!"
"Pei tat miän his mäni." Reckon that ment: "Pay that man his money." 😄
Brads southern accent had me rolling...Pointers Hollywood our accent isn’t that thick
Haha even though it was intentionally bad, I knew they were gonna mention Brad Pitt's "Inglorious Bastards" Italian scene.
How is Norman Reedus in Boondock Saints not on this list? I love the man, but geez that was painful.
idk, playing a living human being isn't in Keanu Reeves skill set, either.
I thought Don Cheadle's British accent in Oceans was bad. Jennifer L accent in Red Sparrow sounds pretty funky as well.
sophie turner doing an american accent in x-men. jennifer lawrence's boston accent in amercan hustle and her russian accent in red sparrow
Honorable mention: Sharlto Copley in Maleficent.
And his accent in Oldboy!
The irony being that Costner's accent in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves is actually more historically accurate than any of the English accents in the film. The English accent as we know it didn't develop until long after English settlers started coming to America. The American accent came from the original English accent while the modern English accents are anachronisms that couldn't possibly exist in the Robin Hood era.
I think this is correct more or less. I read that the common British accent we know today that drops the R sounds, didn’t really exist prior to like the 1700’s or something like that, when it became fashionable to speak that way. Something about how it represented you as a higher class or something like that. And that the British accent before that was different, most likely they did pronounce their R’s like Americans do, and it might have resembled our accent more than what we commonly know of the General British accent .....but none of us will ever truly know for real unless we invent a time machine. So yeah, so called historical accuracy here isn’t so cut and dry
Gerard Butler need not worry. I'm from Ireland and couldn't do the accent from 10 miles down the road. And the only reason Robin Hood Prince of Thieves was a success, Bryan Adams and Everything I Do....That's why.
Brad Pitt’s patois accent in Meet Joe Black Wow!!!...just wow!!! 😂😂😂😂
I didn't even know he was trying to do an English accent (Prince if Thieves)
Kiefer Sutherland in Pompeii with his on again/off again accent.
😂 😂 kevin costner...I had no idea he was meant to be English.
Regarding Costner as Robin - He tried an 'english' accent and botched it so badly he was asked not to do it anymore and they RESHOT his earlier attempts. Do your research
Jolie deserves some leeway here. I teach history in college and have had students watch Alexander in the past (for what it’s worth, Stone was commendably faithful to the source material-even if the film’s flow and drama suffered as a result). Regardless, having looked into the background of the film, I feel compelled to stand up for Jolie’s accent, as well as those of Farrell, Kilmer, and (cringe) Leto. Alexander, Philip, and Hephaistion were Macedonian and, therefore, not considered proper Greeks by their Greek contemporaries (who, you will note, speak with an English accent, per the director’s vision to highlight this “civilized” disparity). The Scots and Irish accents of the Macedonians in the film were conscientious director decisions meant to do the same. As for Olympia (Jolie), she was neither Greek nor Macedonian. Her Eastern European accent was meant to highlight her outsider status. If it still sounds too much like a vampire, that’s fine-the real Olympia came from an area not too far away from modern Transylvania.
Sorry, but Teddy KGB's accent was awesome.... maybe inaccurate, but awesome. My buddies and I still say "Pay that man his Mon-ney" in Malkovich's accent all the time.
Brad Pitt, Snatch
I agree on Costner's Robin Hood. That was atrocious. I never forgot it.
Brad Pitt did manage to pull off the Tennessee accent very well in 'Inglorious Basterds' though.
What about Nicolas Cage & Ron Perlman in Season of the Witch?
Awful awful awful film 😂.
AlbaRecoil yes, and the complete lack of effort at the accents helped make it such a terrible movie!
russel crow doing any accent but recentlly in the mummy as Mr Hyde i think i was supposed to be a east end accent
any actor trying a irish accent; kevin spacy in honest decent crimial; tommy lee jones in blow up (i think thats the name) tome curise and nicole kidman in far and away and julia roberts in michael collins
Steve Martins accent in Pink Panther 1 & 2...hilarious!!
Davis Foghorn Peter Sellers,who to me was & always will be Inspector Clouseau, had a terrific ear for accents but he did a parody of the French Accent intentionally for comedic effect. Steve Martin was just doing that as well,he just wasn't funny in the part(though he's a talented comedian in his own right👍)
sure he did it on purpose
Absolutely.
I think it was meant to be funny....As it was.....Remember when they choose to evict him from the detective Elites and he came into the room and said "WHATEVER IT IS COUNT ME IN"....LOL.......
I'll dig your heart out with a spoon! About the only memorable line from the movie.
You forgot Brad Pitt's awful Austrian/German accent in Seven Years in Tibet.
Natalie Portman in V For Vendetta! LOL!
Nicolas Cage once again gets a free ride. Oh, I’m sorry, you said actors....
Chris Pine's character in disguise during Wonder Woman.
I loved Pitt's accent in Snatch :-)
Any list like this that omits Don Cheadle’s British accent is immediately invalid. Go back and do it again.
it was passable for an american. all the others just do parodies of accents. as a frenchman i have heard each of these actors do a french accent. it makes me wanna slap every english person who thinks we are pepe le pieux
As a native Londoner I have to say it was ropey. Or 'pony' as a REAL cockney would say.
Sorry frenchman, but Don Cheadle's accent is so atrociously bad in that film. Not even remotely passable.
Well Brad Pitt may have missed it in 'The Devil's Own', but he sure made up for in "Snatch"!! His Irish gypsy was a total scene stealer!!
Not one to ever defend Brad Pitt, but his Irish accent in Snatch is on point!
Is brad pitt supposed to be from belfast? Because if so then that accents spot on
Yes, he is. And, yes, his accent is spot on.
Keeping Irish accents in Alexander makes sense. They spoke Greek, but with a strange accent. Irish conveys that well.
Alexander's mother Olympias wasn't Macedonian, she was from Eprius, which was between modern day Greece and Albania. I always took the accent as a means to highlight her in the film as 'foreign' compared to the Macedonians and too add to the mystique of her apparent snake cult worship originally described by Plutarch.
Angelina was camping it up for that Greek movie.
any german accent americans tried to speak (but butchered) is missing on this list
Manuelita, who could that be !
Luca Marinelli's Roman accent on Italian fiction Il Principe Libero.
I know, it's for Italians only - but that was pretty fucking bad :(
Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins
Johnny Depp in From Hell
IRYO on Johnny's accent. While yes, his Cockney accent may not have been too bad, but Heather Graham's is just eye gauging awful.
any accents are just a breeze for Daniel Day Lewis
Charlie Hunnam in anything should have been at least in the top 2.
Jennifer Lawrence in Red Sparrow.
Tom Cruise in Far Away, and Winona Ryder's accent was worse than Keanu Reeves' in Dracula lol
Where is Al Pacino in _Revolution?_ His attempt at a Scottish accent was PAINFUL.
First reading your sentence, thought you would say Al Pacino in Scarface. Guess I am the only one who thinks so. 🤷🏻♀️
Meryl Streep playing Lindy chamberlain - eg a dingo stole my baby
what about that Korean guy from black panther
Robin Hood Prince of Thieves was camp fun. Costner did the right thing in not attempting a Northern British accent. Allen Rickman was a superb villain. One of the best in movie history.
Brad did the pikey dialect perfectly tho
How about Tom Hanks' accent in Captain Phillips? Yikes.
Never understood why Kevin Costner is included in these lists for 'Prince of Thieves'. He's not doing an accent.
Matthew Goode ; Leap Year
Ralph Fiennes: Maid In Manhattan