Yanks think its the only thing hes ever done, I saw an interview with Stephen Fry and Robert Downy Jr on Graham Norton and when Stephen talked about Hugh, RDJ asked Fry, "Oh you know Hugh do you", I recall thinking, You've no idea, Robert
Minor?? He did 8 seasons of 23 episodes per season. That's a huge landmark in any actor's career. Not to mention it probably earned him 100 times all of his other acting roles combined.
Christian Bale was born in Wales to English parents, who moved back to England, he doesn't speak with a Welsh accent, and doesn't consider himself Welsh. That clip of him is very clearly an English accent. They obviously didn't have a British fact checker when they put this compilation together. Btw, if you've ever seen Band of Brothers at least 4 of Easy Company are Brits, including the main charecter Dick Winter
Like Dave said, there's way more than 4. One of them grew up in the neighbourhood next to mine in Bradford, along with his sister who is also an actress.
You can hear Christian Bale at 13 years old speak in an English accent in Steven Spielberg’s 1987 film “Empire of the Sun” He played the lead character Jim, a young, privileged British boy who is separated from his parents and imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Such a brilliant movie!
Henry Cavill who played superman is also British. So is Dan Stevens, Alex pettyfer, Theo James, Nicholas Hoult, Dominic Cooper, Ralph Fiennes, Millie Bobby Brown, etc etc
Robert Pattinson and Christian Bale have been batman, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland are spiderman, the brits love being heroes, Doctor Strange too! Loki, the list goes on
Bale doesn’t have a Welsh accent. He has an English accent, because he’s English (his words, not mine). He was born in Haverfordwest, Wales, but his parents are English and he grew up in England. His family left Wales when he was 2.
Some other British actors include.....Idris Elba, Orlando Bloom, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Cavill (Superman) Tom Holland, Tom Hiddleston, Damian Lewis, Daniel Day Lewis, Rachel weisz, Emilia Clarke, Gemma Arterton, Kate Beckinsale, Emily Blunt, Felicity Jones and Kate Winslet to name just a few.
@@DeanMoxley87 Because the ones he lists have done American accents in American productions and yours have not you fool they are local soap performers 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
11:24 Christian Bale was born in Wales to English parents and considers himself to be English. That is not a Welsh accent by the way, it’s more London East End Cockney!
It sure as heck is!!! When I first heard him speak years ago I could only imagine what it must have been like when he and Michael Caine were together shootin’ the breeze. Lol.
@@mhm8922 I had only seen him in Empire of the Sun where he had his posh accent, and next was in Reign of Fire which was a stark contrast and I thought he was only using it for the character until later movies/interviews 🤪
If you want to see just how British Hugh Laurie is you might want to check out Jeeves and Wooster, a British comedy drama made in the 1990s but set in the early 1930s. Laurie plays an incompetent aristocrat while Stephen Fry plays his valet, the gentleman who always rescues him from every difficult situation. It's a very enjoyable show.
When I first saw House it was such a massive shock seeing Hugh Laurie with a flawless American accent. Especially as I was so used to him in Blackadder when he spoke in such a posh accent. Mind you he was humble when being praised for it as he said as we’re exposed to so much American tv and films, it’s not hard to imitate the accent. I was already a fan as he is superb in Blackadder but when I saw him in House I realised just how talented he was. Him and his best mate Stephen Fry are national treasures.
So true, the cast in blackadder, especially my favourite series blackadder goes forth was incredible, Rowan atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, plus appearances from Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson 😀. Purely my opinion but was right up there with only fools and horses and Dad's Army
@@markdevonshire6052 Yeh definitely up there with Only Fools for sure. Rik Mayall was a force of nature. Only in two episodes but no-one who has seen them will ever forget them.
Fry and Laurie were perfect as Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. Americans who only know Hugh from "House" would get a huge surprise to see him play an upper-class English twit .
Hi, Damien Lewis has done many roles with an American accent, including Homeland. My favourite Andrew Lincoln role was Egg in This Life, his 1st tv role. A brilliant programme, it was like Friends for grown ups. An amazing cast, that have all went into to bigger things.
I loved This Life. I was so like Millie but wanted to be more like Anna. Still put the theme tune on cuz it takes me back to when I was young and gorgeous 😊
Quite a few actors in the Walking Dead are British, Lennie James who was also in Fear the Walking Dead, Lauren Cohan has duel US/UK citizenship, and David Morrissey who played Governor are British.
@@johnburns4017 Then there's the more recent The Batman, filmed in Glasgow, Scotland, with another English Batman (Robert Pattison) and an Irish Penguin (Colin Farrell).
Also Cary Grant (real name Archibald Leach) Errol Flynn was Australian. Boris Karloff was English (William Henry Pratt) Peter Cushion, Christopher Lee, James McAvoy, Dominic Purcell, Kiefer Sutherland
On a different note Gillian Anderson from The X Files is American but came over to live in the UK when she was a child speaks with a generic English accent in real life as she still lives in London. I had 2 of my American friends here recently and they came across her on a TV commercial she does in the UK for a bed company, speaking in her British accent and it blew their minds!
A city called, "Staffordshire"???that’s a county!!!! … Stafford is a city … but he was born in Stoke on Trent …. Famous for pottery … Wedgwood …. Known as, "The Potteries ….
@@duncbee I'm sure I read somewhere that he was only born in Wales, his parents were English and he grew up in England. But I'm definitely not an accent expert - although I love Welsh accents - so there could be a Welsh twang I'm not hearing. :)
I never watched The Walking Dead, but I always remember Andrew Lincoln from a British tv show called Afterlife. He played a university lecturer, and Lesley Sharp played a medium haunted by her 'gift'.
Gillian Anderson moved to the UK when she was about 3 then moved back to the states around 11, so a lot of her formative years were in London which is why her accent is very natural 😊
American actors Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer played very convincing English rockers in This Is Spinal Tap. Especially Harry Shearer. I really thought he was English
Tom Hardy has read the Bedtime Story on Cbeebies a couple of times... Fortunately for me, my youngest grandson gives me the perfect excuse to sit and watch as Tom makes me, and a few million other women go all soft and mushy ..😅
I'm stunned you didn't know Christian Bale was British. You should watch Empire under the sun. It's an incredible film about a child pow in china captured by the Japanese during WW2, he has a British accent in that and must only be around 13. Also Christian Bale doesn't have a welsh accent at all. It's certainly more generic English sounding
Or more recently, if you watch Le Mans (I think it was called Ford vs. Ferrari in America) - he plays the race driver Ken Miles and puts on a pretty decent Brummie accent.
As a Scot I always find it amusing when I hear folk, especially Americans talking about this because we know these actors already! How you didn't know about Christian Bale when he has been acting since he was a child!! I think Brits have to become good at accents because we are constantly being told nobody outside the UK can understand us (especially the Scots)!
Yeah, that channel’s research wasn’t the best. I think they looked him up on Wikipedia and assumed that his place of birth meant that his accent had to be Welsh. Also that bit about someone being from the “town” of Staffordshire.
You can't be born in one place and be a different nationality from another place that's not even possible. if you are born in a certain place that's your nationality it has nothing to do with where your parents are from or how you think of yourself its actually where you were literally born, that's how it is in law. He's only got his English accent as he began living there from the age of 2 which is young enough to pick that accent up plus hearing his parents speak, but it does NOT make him English.
@@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo A person born in Wales doesn't make him English either. You can not change where you were born, it's on you birthday certificate. You can only change gender and your name. He says he's English as he grew up there it's all he's known, still doesn't make him actually English. I can say I'm cat doesn't make me one lol. So your example is wrong lol. It's sounds like it offends you that he was born in Wales.
You need to see some of the Blackadder comedy series to see Hugh Laurie in his Englishness. Tom Hardy played both of the London gangster twins in a film The Krays. Christian Bale began as a child actor in the film Tears of the Sun, in captivity under the Japanese in WW2.
James Marsters that played Spike off Buffy the vampire slayer had an amazing British accent as Anthony Head that played Giles on the show made him talk properly for it. I didn’t realise he was American till I saw an interview. That’s the best British accent I’ve heard from any American actor
@@akaped It got better but some inaccurate colloquialisms slipped in after Anthony Head left, like when Spike tells someone to "W*nk off!", as in, go away. 😂
I was thinking that too. I was so convinced that when he flubbed the occasional word, I'd blame it on the producers making him say it wrong. Then there's Gillian Anderson, an American who was raised in England, and who legitimately has two accents. If she's interviewed in the UK, she's English, if she's interviewed in the US, it's American.
5:15 'Born and bred in a city called Staffordshire, England'. Isn't Staffordshire a county? Would be a bit like saying 'This actor was actually born in a city called Texas, USA'
There's a new accent every 5 miles or so in the UK. Our accents are so varied that we can not only pinpoint what British county someone is from but the city in that county and sometimes even the specific suburb/area of that city. My best friend is from a village 7 miles away from my street. Her accent is massively different to mine. She does 'tidy' up her accent more to accommodate us townies but when I go to her village it's like going to a foreign land 😂
You know something, one day, you will be going about and minding your own business, then someone will shout "CUT!" and you will find out that you were actually just a role in a story being played by Gary Oldman... That's how great an actor he is.
@@jaxcoss5790mostly a generic British accent rather then regional ones though. When do you hear US actors put on a Geordie or Scouse accent or black country? Lol. Never really. Yet UK actors can imitate a vast range of US accents from heavy southern drawl to thick NY etc
@@sarahbetts2219 Lauren Cohan was actually born in the US and spent her childhood up until age 13 in New Jersey. After age 13 her family moved to the UK (where her mom is from), and that is why when you hear her speak in interviews, her accent kind of flip flops between American and British.
@@vaseline69 - Yes, I'm sure that ,"This Life" a bit of a dram-com was Andrew's initial main break into TV acting on BBC2 (1980's?) - I think I was only in my 20's about then - and it was where he was called Egg, and lived in an upper flat with 3-4 others who may have been studying at Uni, or were solicitors, or something of the kind . . . it's all that I've actually seen him in really and probably why I can remember it more . . .???
11:15 Gary Oldman played Commissioner Gordon in The Dark Knight Rises, Scarecrow makes an appearance played by Irishman Cillan Murphy, Aidan Gillen(Irish)the cia op, Burn Gorman(USA born English) as Stryver, Juno Temple(English) Catwomans roommate and you can’t forget Michael Caine as Alfred plus and honourable mention to Tom Conti (Scottish)
Hi Steve and Lindsay Hugh Laurie is actually one of the new wave comedians who came out of the Cambridge University set and first started in the Blackadder comedies of the late 1980s he was one of the British middle classes who changed UK comedy he left Cambridge with the likes of Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry and Rik Mayal, all of which starred in Blackadder. There are actually loads of actors and actresses who've started out acting in the UK then after a few successes fly to the USA because the Hollywood film business has more opportunities than the UK film industry.
Not completely accurate. Hugh Laurie started in UK TV comedy, with "A little bit of Fry & Laurie", followed by "Jeeves & Wooster". He actually rowed for Cambridge in the 1980 Boat Race! There' a "Hidden" joke about that in "Black Adder goes Forth".
@@nigellusby8256 I was going to mention Fry & Laurie. I think Stephen Fry is fairly well known in America so Steve & Lindsay should check out A Bit Of Fry & Laurie.
The one that surprised me the most at the time was Idris Elba in the wire. He was unknown to me at the time and I couldn’t understand when making a series that was so raw and authentic that they’d use anyone not from the hood 🤷
three amazing American performances from British actors are Millie Bobby Brown, Joseph Quinn and Jamie Campbell Bower. Eleven, Eddie and Henry Creel/Vecna from Stranger Things
Naomi watts, Naomi Harris , Damian Lewis ( Band of brothers, Homeland ) Rebecca Hall ,Will Poulter, Matthew Rhys, Stephen Moyer, Mischa Barton, Aaron Taylor Johnson , Arizona Ahmed, Alfred Enoch,
Teachers was filmed at an old school in Bristol that was used as an arts and community education centre. They would be leaving from filming just as I was arriving for rehearsals with Bristol Opera. @@peterdavy6110
It's like learning any language...it becomes so natural that you even think in it. For my school exams in French my mother made me talk Totally in the language for 10 days before my oral exam....so that I actually Thought in it rather than English.. Great fun! (and got top marks!)
The best part of the batman trilogy with the British Christian bale is that the first films villain scarecrow is played by an Irish man. The second films villain is played by an Australian. And the third films villain is played by an English man even detective Gordon is played by an English man 😄
You should totally check out some Fry and Laurie on the channel. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, both such smart and funny people and burst onto the UK comedy scene in the .... 80s and then were in shows such as Black Adder with Rowan Atkinson (another person you should look into as he's done so much more than just Mr Bean).
@@TanyaRando I know , but so many outside of the UK have no idea of his other work. Not the nine o'clock news with Mel smith, Griff Rhys-,Jones and Pamela Stephenson. Awesome
@@chelliebellie4443 I wasn’t a huge fan of the first series of blackadder, but when the writers changed it was a big hit with me. I loved not the 9 o’clock news, loved Mel Smith. I even love Rowan when he talks to uni students and conferences, political stuff etc. I’m a big Monty Python fan, The Goons, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. Absolutely loved Spikes war memoirs etc.
@@Venti1388 it was very appealing to children. Also as there was hardly any dialogue it didn't need translating. I lived in Costa Rica, Taiwan, the Middle East - all the kids knew Mr Bean and enjoyed him. Hence the movies and cartoon.
She considers it her natural accent. She's said so in interviews, and she also considers herself American. She chose to actually adopt a Mid-western accent after she got teased at school for having a British one.
One underconsidered advantage that (most) British actors have over American ones is the relative vowel inventory of British vs American English. Both have relatively high numbers of vowels, but British English has more: approximately 16 versus approximately 20. Americans doing British accents often mess this up as two vowels which are the same in the US may be articulated differently here. There’s also a more complicated prosody system in British English with more variety of syllable lengths, which often trips up Americans (e.g. one, two, three, and four are all distinctly different lengths in British and Australian English but more or less the same in the US). Going the other way, British actors can struggle with remembering to not mutate most unstressed vowels to schwa (short, unstressed ‘uh’ sound). It’s often a dead giveaway.
The British actors tend to be good at accents because of the rigorous training they tend to receive at the UK dramatic academies. Thank you for the video! 👍
Everytime I hear a comment about American actors attempting a British accent brings on a severe PTSD as memories of Dick Van Dyke springs straight back into my mind.......Aaaaagh!
What's interesting is nobody actually complains about Dick Van Dyke's accent as the senior Mr Dawes though either in the Original Mary Poppins or the younger Mr Dawes in the new Mary Poppins returns. It was his cockney accent that wasn't great. His elderly RP accent apparently did fool lots of people.
5:06 As far as I can tell, Hugh Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, one of the larger towns IN the county of Staffordshire (the county town of which is Stafford, hence the name).
Stoke-on-Trent is a city, not a town. It was formed by amalgamating 6 towns together: Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent (note the difference between it and the city name), Fenton, and Longton. The nearby town of Newcastle-under-Lyme refused to join, even though there is not any apparent countryside between it and the city. It was formed in 1910, and took its name from the town where the railway station was placed. Its main shopping centre is placed in the town of Hanley.
Although Stafford is not a city, and most of Staffordshire is in the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield. Captain Smith of the RMS Titanic was born in Hanley (part of Stoke on Trent), but his memorial sculpture is in Lichfield because Hanley is in the Diocese of Lichfield.
@@jerry2357used to be a big mural of him on the potteries shopping centre staircase from car park in Hanley for absolutely years. As a kid really stood out.
he also became great friends with the guy that played hannibal, when they both starred in the 'king arthur' film with clive owen and ray winston(i think keira knightly was in it aswell...)
Did you also know that Kim Cattrall was British she was born in Liverpool!! 😊 Also if you want to watch a film with Christian Bale, watch Empire of the Sun, it was his movie debut and he was just a child still with his British accent!
Sounded fine to me, great to have you back on, should definitely check out blackadder (goes forth, is best in my opinion) the difference in hugh laurie from his character in house just shows the variation and talent he has
Will have to check and see if that's one we can do, as I know you've mentioned it in the past as well. :) Hope you and your family have an awesome weekend, Mark!
@@reactingtomyroots Blackadder (except series 1) is regarded by many Brits as the greatest British comedy of all time, so you certainly should check it out mate, even if just for fun
Hi. I love your reactions. As I left the UK when I was very young and recently returned, a lot of what you react to is also new and interesting for me. I therefore found this video quite difficult as I couldn't hear properly what was being said on the video you were watching. I personally would prefer that you guys and the video are at the sane volume, and that you pause when you want to comment. That way we get to enjoy the video as well as your reaction. Hope that makes sense. Love you guys. 💜🤗
You two need to watch “Empire of the Sun”, as soon as you can find it! Christian Bale was 13 in that movie, and I saw it before he ever left the UK, so his move to the US wasn’t until he was an adult. Before he filmed Batman Begins, he accepted the lead role in The Machinist, which had us all rather worried for his health! So far, so good, but it wouldn’t surprise me if some side effects from making that film hit him in later life.
2 notable performances from British actors I think are Dominic West in the wire! And Kelly macdonalds brilliant southern accent in No country for old men.
The most amazing thing about Hugh Laurie is that he played Bertie Wooster a posh 1920s British playboy comedy with an amazing aristocratic accent. You can't get a more British accent.
Are you thinking of Afterlife ? The series set in Bristol and he’s a psychiatrist/ professor at the University ……and a woman ( Lesley Sharp) who sees dead people , including HIS dead son and he’s a TRUE sceptic of people like her ……becomes his patient ? Very brilliant series , acting off the scale superb , dark , moving , emotional and SO good , I bought the dvd box set .!!! 👋
Great video and love watching you guys react. You may be surprised that many of the main cast in The Walking Dead are Actually British. Us Brits don’t necessarily have much to be proud about our country these day but for a tiny little island our contribution to the world of movies, music & arts in general is unrivalled. Keep up the great work and keep well. 😀🙏
Re the Walking Dead question: we’re just all zombies with polite police officers using their calming tone and community knowledge to keep us from being too rambunctious “Now now, let’s talk about this desire for human flesh over a cup of tea a nice digestive biscuit”
Really enjoy watching some of these, our 2 nations forget how much we have in common, really enjoyed it when he said "programme" instead of "show" but then I found it amusing because you guys would spell it "program" 😂
Also 2 from iconic US shows Idris Elba (The Wire) Damian Lewis(Band of Brothers/Homeland) Kate Winslett (Mare of Eastown) or movies Daniel Day-Lewis in anything Michael Sheen played Nixon (he's Welsh)
@@Bikergirl_40 Michael Sheen may be a good actor but he's also a massive douchebag. Pity, since I discovered that, everything he's in is ruined for me. I'm utterly unable to separate the art from the artist, which sucks.
I watched an old programme from the 50s called the adventures of Jim Bowie. Now I'm a old man I've just discovered that the man who portrayed Bowie is actually British.
If you want to find out who all these actors that are with British accents then watch the Graham Norton show. They all use their native accents when they’re on the show plus it’s a fun show.
If you keep in mind that an actor is only using his/her selected accent for only a few hours a day when working, falling back into their native language is not much of demand to make. Also they are only using the assumed language when working, not at home with family and friends.
Im also really impressed with the guy hosting the video you're watching, for pronouncing "Staffordshire" properly, as Staffordsher (no hard R, lol) and not Staffordsheer or Staffordshyer
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watch the magic film , plus bale has a London accent not Welsh
what gillian Andersons scully, xfiles
The actress that plays Maggie in the walking dead is Scottish
There were quite a few British actors in TWD.
Risk, Grimes, The Governor, Maggie, Jesus, Alpha, Morgan, Yumiko, Jadis
It's weird, because here, House is such a minor part of Hugh Laurie's career.
Yanks think its the only thing hes ever done, I saw an interview with Stephen Fry and Robert Downy Jr on Graham Norton and when Stephen talked about Hugh, RDJ asked Fry, "Oh you know Hugh do you", I recall thinking, You've no idea, Robert
he will always be bertie wooster to me :)
Hugh Laurie always has me cracking up as the Prince of Wales in Black Adder III
Hugh Laurie's best part was in Blackadder.
Minor?? He did 8 seasons of 23 episodes per season. That's a huge landmark in any actor's career. Not to mention it probably earned him 100 times all of his other acting roles combined.
Christian Bale was born in Wales to English parents, who moved back to England, he doesn't speak with a Welsh accent, and doesn't consider himself Welsh. That clip of him is very clearly an English accent. They obviously didn't have a British fact checker when they put this compilation together. Btw, if you've ever seen Band of Brothers at least 4 of Easy Company are Brits, including the main charecter Dick Winter
Way more than 4 most of them are British as it was filmed in the uk. Most of the casting was done in the uk
They could have used Matthew Rhys as an example of an actual Welsh accent doing a great American accent😂
@@ticketyboo2456 the Americans was a fantastic show
Like Dave said, there's way more than 4.
One of them grew up in the neighbourhood next to mine in Bradford, along with his sister who is also an actress.
You can hear Christian Bale at 13 years old speak in an English accent in Steven Spielberg’s 1987 film “Empire of the Sun” He played the lead character Jim, a young, privileged British boy who is separated from his parents and imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Such a brilliant movie!
Henry Cavill who played superman is also British. So is Dan Stevens, Alex pettyfer, Theo James, Nicholas Hoult, Dominic Cooper, Ralph Fiennes, Millie Bobby Brown, etc etc
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Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland
@@deadkenny6105 Robert Pattinson doesn't count cause he was in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Henry Cavill 🫠
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Robert Pattinson and Christian Bale have been batman, Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland are spiderman, the brits love being heroes, Doctor Strange too! Loki, the list goes on
Bale doesn’t have a Welsh accent. He has an English accent, because he’s English (his words, not mine). He was born in Haverfordwest, Wales, but his parents are English and he grew up in England. His family left Wales when he was 2.
Some other British actors include.....Idris Elba, Orlando Bloom, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Cavill (Superman) Tom Holland, Tom Hiddleston, Damian Lewis, Daniel Day Lewis, Rachel weisz, Emilia Clarke, Gemma Arterton, Kate Beckinsale, Emily Blunt, Felicity Jones and Kate Winslet to name just a few.
To be fair, I've never heard Tom Hiddleston do an American accent in any of his roles so that one isn't surprising
@@Thezion1111 Oh ok i thought he did some American roles. Actually Tom Hiddleston did play American singer Hank Williams in the movie I saw the light.
You've basically run of a list of British Actors, why not include Gail Platt, Dot Cotton ?
@@DeanMoxley87 Sorry, i should have! 🙄
@@DeanMoxley87 Because the ones he lists have done American accents in American productions and yours have not you fool they are local soap performers 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
11:24 Christian Bale was born in Wales to English parents and considers himself to be English. That is not a Welsh accent by the way, it’s more London East End Cockney!
It sure as heck is!!! When I first heard him speak years ago I could only imagine what it must have been like when he and Michael Caine were together shootin’ the breeze. Lol.
@@mhm8922 I had only seen him in Empire of the Sun where he had his posh accent, and next was in Reign of Fire which was a stark contrast and I thought he was only using it for the character until later movies/interviews 🤪
He’s still Welsh tho 😂
If you want to see just how British Hugh Laurie is you might want to check out Jeeves and Wooster, a British comedy drama made in the 1990s but set in the early 1930s. Laurie plays an incompetent aristocrat while Stephen Fry plays his valet, the gentleman who always rescues him from every difficult situation. It's a very enjoyable show.
Or Blackadder, or a Bit of Fry & Laurie
Was about to say the same!
Or Blackadder the Third.
He was actually very good at being an aristocrat! 😂😂
If memory serves it ran for 4 series and won a lot of awards
I’m shocked they didn’t include Idris Elba and his iconic performance in “The Wire”
A lot of people know he's British that's why
Best English accents by Americans in a movie are the cast of THIS IS SPINAL TAP. Spot on.
Ha Staffordshire is a county!! As for Tom Hardy, cor what a man!! 😁🇬🇧🏴
Aye, that jumped out... the city of Staffordshire 😂😂😂
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I remember the sign en route to the towers of Alton 😁
That was funny!
Yes I also winced.
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When I first saw House it was such a massive shock seeing Hugh Laurie with a flawless American accent. Especially as I was so used to him in Blackadder when he spoke in such a posh accent.
Mind you he was humble when being praised for it as he said as we’re exposed to so much American tv and films, it’s not hard to imitate the accent.
I was already a fan as he is superb in Blackadder but when I saw him in House I realised just how talented he was.
Him and his best mate Stephen Fry are national treasures.
@@thomasfrost3087 hear hear
So true, the cast in blackadder, especially my favourite series blackadder goes forth was incredible, Rowan atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, plus appearances from Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson 😀. Purely my opinion but was right up there with only fools and horses and Dad's Army
@@markdevonshire6052 Yeh definitely up there with Only Fools for sure. Rik Mayall was a force of nature. Only in two episodes but no-one who has seen them will ever forget them.
It was a shock seeing him playing it straight for once, or was he ?
Fry and Laurie were perfect as Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. Americans who only know Hugh from "House" would get a huge surprise to see him play an upper-class English twit .
Hi, Damien Lewis has done many roles with an American accent, including Homeland. My favourite Andrew Lincoln role was Egg in This Life, his 1st tv role. A brilliant programme, it was like Friends for grown ups. An amazing cast, that have all went into to bigger things.
Loved that programme , most of the actors in THIS LIFE have gone on to play loads of different characters.
I loved This Life. I was so like Millie but wanted to be more like Anna. Still put the theme tune on cuz it takes me back to when I was young and gorgeous 😊
So many great British actors out there, it still boggles my brain why they cast Karl Urban (a Kiwi) as Billy Butcher in The Boys.
He certainly butchered the Cockney accent 😅
Cockneys butcher the accent too. @ianhowarth6799
Quite a few actors in the Walking Dead are British, Lennie James who was also in Fear the Walking Dead, Lauren Cohan has duel US/UK citizenship, and David Morrissey who played Governor are British.
Never seen Sons of Anarchy but I remember Charlie Hunnam from Queer As Folk over here about 25 years ago. He's done well for himself lol.
He definitely has haha
Auden Guillen also went along way.
He was brilliant in green street
Fantastic in The Gentleman
You can tell he's spent a lot of time in the US. His accent sounds half American now.
The whole Batman trilogy is full of British actors, directed by a Brit, (Christopher Nolan), and mostly made in UK with British crews.
Barman filmed mainly in Liverpool.
@@johnburns4017 Then there's the more recent The Batman, filmed in Glasgow, Scotland, with another English Batman (Robert Pattison) and an Irish Penguin (Colin Farrell).
@@johnburns4017 A lot was done at the old airship hangars at Cardington, Bedfordshire.
Colin Farrell is an Irish actor but he's not a British actor.
Gotham City Hall is St George's Hall in Liverpool.. You can see the number 10 bus stop in the foreground
Charlie Chaplin was British and so was Stan Laurel from Laurel and Hardy.
So was Bob Hope
Also Cary Grant (real name Archibald Leach)
Errol Flynn was Australian.
Boris Karloff was English (William Henry Pratt)
Peter Cushion, Christopher Lee, James McAvoy, Dominic Purcell, Kiefer Sutherland
@@LazmanarusPeter Cushing.
@@Lazmanarus Peter Cushion? sofa, so good.
@@ashleyhoward8926 JD's fave actor.
Gary Oldman, who costars in the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy as Commissioner Gordon, is a British actor
On a different note Gillian Anderson from The X Files is American but came over to live in the UK when she was a child speaks with a generic English accent in real life as she still lives in London. I had 2 of my American friends here recently and they came across her on a TV commercial she does in the UK for a bed company, speaking in her British accent and it blew their minds!
Christian Bale does not have a Welsh accent! It's a generic non-posh Southern English accent.
Gareth Bake plays foitball for Wakes (!)
A city called, "Staffordshire"???that’s a county!!!! … Stafford is a city … but he was born in Stoke on Trent …. Famous for pottery … Wedgwood …. Known as, "The Potteries ….
As my wife is Welsh but spent most of her life in Kent he does have Welsh twang to his accent.
@@duncbee I'm sure I read somewhere that he was only born in Wales, his parents were English and he grew up in England. But I'm definitely not an accent expert - although I love Welsh accents - so there could be a Welsh twang I'm not hearing. :)
True. He was born in Wales to English parents and has an English accent. Plus he states that he's English.
I never watched The Walking Dead, but I always remember Andrew Lincoln from a British tv show called Afterlife. He played a university lecturer, and Lesley Sharp played a medium haunted by her 'gift'.
That show was superb.
I remember him from This Life which was must see TV when I was a student.
Excellent series
@@hat9172 yeah when we started watching TWD we were like "It's EGG!!!" :D
Afterlife was a terrific show , he and Lesley Sharpe were mesmerising .
Daniel Day-Lewis probably worth a mention
Daniel Day-Lewis is Irish.
@@vickytaylor9155 It says in his bio Daniel is an English Actor born in London.
@@vickytaylor9155 Nope, Sir Daniel Day Lewis is British, the Irish can not be awarded a Knighthood.
@@vickytaylor9155 He was Born and raised in London.
@@george-ev1dq They can actually, Bob Geldof got one.
Gillian Anderson is one of the only American actors who has been so successful at the British accent we forgot she was American.
Gillian Anderson moved to the UK when she was about 3 then moved back to the states around 11, so a lot of her formative years were in London which is why her accent is very natural 😊
She's a Scouser(Liverpudlian)
She talks with an American accent in American interviews, but in great Britain, she has a british accent.
I'm not kidding. It's weird.
Gillian is a special case - she is genuinely “bi-accented”. Because of her upbringing in the UK and Canada, neither of those accents is fake with her
@@sjb2471 she is a rare case where because of her upbringing she sounds equally natural doing both.
American actors Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer played very convincing English rockers in This Is Spinal Tap. Especially Harry Shearer. I really thought he was English
great point. they really nailed it in that movie, but I think Christopher Guest is part English and lived in the UK for years.
Tom Hardy could speak Vulcan and I’d still be swooning! 😍
Tom Hardy has read the Bedtime Story on Cbeebies a couple of times... Fortunately for me, my youngest grandson gives me the perfect excuse to sit and watch as Tom makes me, and a few million other women go all soft and mushy ..😅
😂
@@JoBrady-q8ponly time I enjoyed Jackanory 😜 and my kids are well past story time age 😉
He doesn’t need to speak…
@@dianedavid3052 yes, 🙌
Kate Winslet is one of my favourite British Actresses that does mainly American tv/movies
Watch her in the new film "Lee" which is a bio-pic about Photographer Lee Miller, who was American
@steveclarke6257 I've been searching to watch that. Do you know where I can please?
@sarahbetts2219 well I have no idea where you are in the world, it's on general release in the UK as far as I'm aware
@steveclarke6257 I am in the UK. Thank you. I've seen 90% of her tv/movie career so far, so I will defo be checking that one asap
Emily Blunt also does some great work in an American accent.
I'm stunned you didn't know Christian Bale was British. You should watch Empire under the sun. It's an incredible film about a child pow in china captured by the Japanese during WW2, he has a British accent in that and must only be around 13. Also Christian Bale doesn't have a welsh accent at all. It's certainly more generic English sounding
Definitely not Welsh, it's a London accent if anything.
He did a fine Birmingham accent in Ford v Ferrari.
Or more recently, if you watch Le Mans (I think it was called Ford vs. Ferrari in America) - he plays the race driver Ken Miles and puts on a pretty decent Brummie accent.
Empire of the Sun based on a true experiences of the man who wrote it.J Ballard.
The song too. Omg I cannot remember the name of it but it’s a Welsh song
@@Bikergirl_40 Suo Gan
Hugh Laurie; Best remembered here (UK) for being Bertie Wooster, Jeeves and Wooster and Black Adder, but I am over 70 😂😂
As a Scot I always find it amusing when I hear folk, especially Americans talking about this because we know these actors already! How you didn't know about Christian Bale when he has been acting since he was a child!! I think Brits have to become good at accents because we are constantly being told nobody outside the UK can understand us (especially the Scots)!
Christian Bale is English, born in Wales to English parents who moved back to England when he was 2 years old he has a London accent.
yep sounds funny them describing him as welsh with a welsh accent when he sounds like a cockney lol
Yeah, that channel’s research wasn’t the best. I think they looked him up on Wikipedia and assumed that his place of birth meant that his accent had to be Welsh. Also that bit about someone being from the “town” of Staffordshire.
You can't be born in one place and be a different nationality from another place that's not even possible. if you are born in a certain place that's your nationality it has nothing to do with where your parents are from or how you think of yourself its actually where you were literally born, that's how it is in law. He's only got his English accent as he began living there from the age of 2 which is young enough to pick that accent up plus hearing his parents speak, but it does NOT make him English.
@@emmahowells8334 You can change your nationality legally but more importantly he says he's English, a dog born in a stable doesn't make it a horse.
@@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo A person born in Wales doesn't make him English either. You can not change where you were born, it's on you birthday certificate. You can only change gender and your name. He says he's English as he grew up there it's all he's known, still doesn't make him actually English. I can say I'm cat doesn't make me one lol. So your example is wrong lol. It's sounds like it offends you that he was born in Wales.
The American actress who does a convincing British accent IMO is Renée Zellweger in Bridget Jones.
She adopted a false posh English accent.
@@emilymccartney1593 I wouldn't have called it false. Posh, yes, but not false.
All snobby accents are fake/false ..tell me what dialect it is ?
@@jennymichelle81 It's Received Pronunciation (RP)
Agreed! I was amazed to find she was American!
You need to see some of the Blackadder comedy series to see Hugh Laurie in his Englishness.
Tom Hardy played both of the London gangster twins in a film The Krays.
Christian Bale began as a child actor in the film Tears of the Sun, in captivity under the Japanese in WW2.
The movie Tom Hardy starred in was called Legend. The Krays was the 90s version starring the Kemp brothers.
Think it's "Empire of the Sun"
Empire of the Sun, based upon the autobiographical novel by J G Ballard about his experience as a schoolboy in Shanghai during WW2.
I'm english and Andrew Garfield being british was news to me.
I'm from the UK and I thought the guy in Ella Enchanted was American acting with a British accent. So, it goes to show, you can never tell.
James Marsters that played Spike off Buffy the vampire slayer had an amazing British accent as Anthony Head that played Giles on the show made him talk properly for it. I didn’t realise he was American till I saw an interview. That’s the best British accent I’ve heard from any American actor
Noooo! It was awful 😂 Although to be fair, it did get better as time went on
That’s true. I grew up thinking James masters was British 😂
@@akaped It got better but some inaccurate colloquialisms slipped in after Anthony Head left, like when Spike tells someone to "W*nk off!", as in, go away. 😂
I was thinking that too. I was so convinced that when he flubbed the occasional word, I'd blame it on the producers making him say it wrong. Then there's Gillian Anderson, an American who was raised in England, and who legitimately has two accents. If she's interviewed in the UK, she's English, if she's interviewed in the US, it's American.
James Masters was basing his accent on Sid Vicious as it fitted that character!
5:15 'Born and bred in a city called Staffordshire, England'. Isn't Staffordshire a county?
Would be a bit like saying 'This actor was actually born in a city called Texas, USA'
Yes Staffordshire is a county here in U.K.
Staffordshire isn't a city
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire
Dude told us he knows nothing about the UK without telling us he knows nothing about the UK.
hugh laurie, clearly never seen Blackadder
The Good Doctor actor Freddie Highmore is British too. Fantastic series 👏
Something similar to "The Walking Dead" in the UK?
Yes. It's called "The House of Lords".
😂😂😂
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@@summit7051 pmsl you’re not wrong hun x
Re accents, I recommend Bill Bryson's 'the mother tongue ' the UK has a ridiculous number of accents compared to the US.
There is over 20 accents in my home state of Vermont
There's a new accent every 5 miles or so in the UK. Our accents are so varied that we can not only pinpoint what British county someone is from but the city in that county and sometimes even the specific suburb/area of that city. My best friend is from a village 7 miles away from my street. Her accent is massively different to mine. She does 'tidy' up her accent more to accommodate us townies but when I go to her village it's like going to a foreign land 😂
Thanks for the suggestion! :)
It's criminal that Gary Oldman is often left out of these lists.
He's just that good
True say bruh.
Adore Gary oldman
You know something, one day, you will be going about and minding your own business, then someone will shout "CUT!" and you will find out that you were actually just a role in a story being played by Gary Oldman... That's how great an actor he is.
I really expected Gary Oldman to be on this list. I was shocked when I found out he was English.
British actors are usually just the best tbf
Americans are pretty poor at doing British accents.
@@jaxcoss5790mostly a generic British accent rather then regional ones though. When do you hear US actors put on a Geordie or Scouse accent or black country? Lol. Never really. Yet UK actors can imitate a vast range of US accents from heavy southern drawl to thick NY etc
If you’ve seen Ozark, then many people don’t know Jacob Snell (Peter Mullin) is Scottish and Helen Pierce (Janet McTeer) is english
The Governor from The Walking Dead is also from Liverpool.
Morgan in the Walking Dead and the Governor in the Walking Dead are also British actors. Lennie James and David Morrissey.
and Maggie is British Lauren Cohen
Also Alpha (Samantha Morton) and Jesus (Tom Payne)
@sarahgreen653 omg yes, Samantha is such a great actress
@@sarahbetts2219
Lauren Cohan was actually born in the US and spent her childhood up until age 13 in New Jersey. After age 13 her family moved to the UK (where her mom is from), and that is why when you hear her speak in interviews, her accent kind of flip flops between American and British.
David Morrisey, absolute great Scouser so not really English😉
Andrew Lincoln came to fame in the UK with a comedy on channel 4 called Teachers ,very funny
he was in This Life before Teachers, and This life was Huge at the time
@@vaseline69 - Yes, I'm sure that ,"This Life" a bit of a dram-com was Andrew's initial main break into TV acting on BBC2 (1980's?) - I think I was only in my 20's about then - and it was where he was called Egg, and lived in an upper flat with 3-4 others who may have been studying at Uni, or were solicitors, or something of the kind . . . it's all that I've actually seen him in really and probably why I can remember it more . . .???
@@KGardner01010 it was 96, you are a bit early
@@vaseline69 - Wow, I was older than I thought when I watched it then, lol . . .
And afterlife
British actors are trained actors on the whole.
And most have good theatre experience, unlike most American actors.
@@TryptychUK So very true. They also do go under the knife so often. 🤣
@@TryptychUKKeegan Michael Key is a trained shakespearean actor so clearly not true for most American actors.
@@jackwhitbread4583 So "one" equals "most"?
@@jackwhitbread4583 see below fool
You should watch Andrew Lincoln in Teachers a British comedy series! Hilarious!!! Done during the 90s! 👍😂🤣😂🤣
11:15 Gary Oldman played Commissioner Gordon in The Dark Knight Rises, Scarecrow makes an appearance played by Irishman Cillan Murphy, Aidan Gillen(Irish)the cia op, Burn Gorman(USA born English) as Stryver, Juno Temple(English) Catwomans roommate and you can’t forget Michael Caine as Alfred plus and honourable mention to Tom Conti (Scottish)
Hi Steve and Lindsay
Hugh Laurie is actually one of the new wave comedians who came out of the Cambridge University set and first started in the Blackadder comedies of the late 1980s he was one of the British middle classes who changed UK comedy he left Cambridge with the likes of Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry and Rik Mayal, all of which starred in Blackadder.
There are actually loads of actors and actresses who've started out acting in the UK then after a few successes fly to the USA because the Hollywood film business has more opportunities than the UK film industry.
Rik Mayall wasn't at Cambridge, he was at Manchester University where he met Ade Edmondson.
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 really I didn't know that. Ade Edmondson is another brilliant comedic actor too
Not completely accurate. Hugh Laurie started in UK TV comedy, with "A little bit of Fry & Laurie", followed by "Jeeves & Wooster".
He actually rowed for Cambridge in the 1980 Boat Race! There' a "Hidden" joke about that in "Black Adder goes Forth".
@@nigellusby8256 He actually started on BBC Radio 4....
@@nigellusby8256 I was going to mention Fry & Laurie. I think Stephen Fry is fairly well known in America so Steve & Lindsay should check out A Bit Of Fry & Laurie.
In a city called Staffordshire...
Americans.
Oh dear.
Don’t……… 😁
I was born in a city called Merseyside. It’s great!!😂
Christian Bale doesn’t have a Welsh accent. He has a London accent!
He was Born in Wales, then must have moved to London then America.
@@jessieb7290 Correct! Two years in Wales then moved to Portugal then Oxfordshire then Bournemouth. He moved to America when he was 17
@@jessieb7290 his parents are English.
@@jpwartist I know, thanks
The one that surprised me the most at the time was Idris Elba in the wire. He was unknown to me at the time and I couldn’t understand when making a series that was so raw and authentic that they’d use anyone not from the hood 🤷
Renee zellwegger does a brilliant British accent
three amazing American performances from British actors are Millie Bobby Brown, Joseph Quinn and Jamie Campbell Bower. Eleven, Eddie and Henry Creel/Vecna from Stranger Things
Naomi watts, Naomi Harris , Damian Lewis ( Band of brothers, Homeland ) Rebecca Hall ,Will Poulter, Matthew Rhys, Stephen Moyer, Mischa Barton, Aaron Taylor Johnson , Arizona Ahmed, Alfred Enoch,
RIP Eddie 😭
Damian Lewis and most of the cast of Band of Brothers.
Yes ! 👍
For real. Hearing DL in his native accent just sounds unnatural now lol
Just to shock you more, Andrew Lincoln's real name is Andrew Clutterbuck, and his brother is a head teacher at a local school in Bristol UK.
A school in Bristol! Hope it's not like the one in Teachers!
@@peterdavy6110 He was actually my Son's head Teacher, and the school was pretty good.
Teachers was filmed at an old school in Bristol that was used as an arts and community education centre. They would be leaving from filming just as I was arriving for rehearsals with Bristol Opera. @@peterdavy6110
It's like learning any language...it becomes so natural that you even think in it. For my school exams in French my mother made me talk Totally in the language for 10 days before my oral exam....so that I actually Thought in it rather than English.. Great fun! (and got top marks!)
The best part of the batman trilogy with the British Christian bale is that the first films villain scarecrow is played by an Irish man. The second films villain is played by an Australian. And the third films villain is played by an English man even detective Gordon is played by an English man 😄
You should totally check out some Fry and Laurie on the channel. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, both such smart and funny people and burst onto the UK comedy scene in the .... 80s and then were in shows such as Black Adder with Rowan Atkinson (another person you should look into as he's done so much more than just Mr Bean).
Yes, I'm not a fan of Mr Bean, but I LOVE Blackadder.
@@TanyaRando I know , but so many outside of the UK have no idea of his other work. Not the nine o'clock news with Mel smith, Griff Rhys-,Jones and Pamela Stephenson. Awesome
@@chelliebellie4443 I wasn’t a huge fan of the first series of blackadder, but when the writers changed it was a big hit with me. I loved not the 9 o’clock news, loved Mel Smith. I even love Rowan when he talks to uni students and conferences, political stuff etc. I’m a big Monty Python fan, The Goons, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. Absolutely loved Spikes war memoirs etc.
I will NEVER understand why Mr Bean went down so well in the USA. It was vaguely entertaining but the novelty wore off pretty quickly here.
@@Venti1388 it was very appealing to children. Also as there was hardly any dialogue it didn't need translating. I lived in Costa Rica, Taiwan, the Middle East - all the kids knew Mr Bean and enjoyed him. Hence the movies and cartoon.
To reverse it, Gillian Anderson of X files fame, does a brilliant British accent.
She lived in London until she was 11 and then spent every Summer in London, after her family moved back to the US.
She lived London for most of her first 11 years.
Gillian is bidialectic. She can switch effortlessly.
That's a bit of a cheat though, since she spent some of her childhood in Britain and has lived here as an adult for over 20 years.
She considers it her natural accent. She's said so in interviews, and she also considers herself American. She chose to actually adopt a Mid-western accent after she got teased at school for having a British one.
Hugh Laurie (House) is one of the main characters in 'Blackadder' comedy and several others.
Haha I always think of him playing upper class toffs!
He is the quintessental Prince Regent.
HE was also in the live action version of 101 Dalmations
Used to love Andrew Lincoln in this life back in the 90s great english drama
Andrew Lincoln has been in loads of films and programmes, his accent is VERY British
One underconsidered advantage that (most) British actors have over American ones is the relative vowel inventory of British vs American English. Both have relatively high numbers of vowels, but British English has more: approximately 16 versus approximately 20. Americans doing British accents often mess this up as two vowels which are the same in the US may be articulated differently here. There’s also a more complicated prosody system in British English with more variety of syllable lengths, which often trips up Americans (e.g. one, two, three, and four are all distinctly different lengths in British and Australian English but more or less the same in the US). Going the other way, British actors can struggle with remembering to not mutate most unstressed vowels to schwa (short, unstressed ‘uh’ sound). It’s often a dead giveaway.
"Daughter" is One word that is a dead giveaway when an American is faking a British accent.
Doing an American accent is like doing Geordie light, soften the consonants and express the vowels. Just don't add the Danish. 😉
There's 2 syllables in "mirror" not 1.
Staffordshire is not a city 😂
Thank you. I was about to post that!! As we know Staffordshire is a county not a city. Maybe they mean Stafford.
He was born in Stoke. I think the narrator just slipped up. Surely even Americans know most countys are shires?
And England and Britain are not the same! [Half English/Half Scotish].
Don't forget Gary Oldman! He played Commissioner Gordon in the Batman movies. Superb actor.
He also played Sirius Black in Harry Potter ❤
Check him out in "State of Grace", "Romeo is Bleeding" and "Leon the Professional" 3 great movies 3 great performances.
@@stevebinning977 love him in Slow Horses.
Although Michael Caine played an English butler, weren’t Caine, Oldman, Hardy and Bale all in the same Batman movies?
@@charlottehardy822 Yes!
No It's just that Americans don't think that no one else or nothing else exists outside of America 😂
The British actors tend to be good at accents because of the rigorous training they tend to receive at the UK dramatic academies. Thank you for the video! 👍
Everytime I hear a comment about American actors attempting a British accent brings on a severe PTSD as memories of Dick Van Dyke springs straight back into my mind.......Aaaaagh!
Have you never watched "Bridget Jones"? Renee Zellweger's English accent is amazing.
Yes I was thinking the same.
Dick's British accent was so bad, you just love it 😁
I have to give Peter Dinklage a mention as he was virtually the only American on "Game of Thrones", and I found him to be totally convincing.
What's interesting is nobody actually complains about Dick Van Dyke's accent as the senior Mr Dawes though either in the Original Mary Poppins or the younger Mr Dawes in the new Mary Poppins returns. It was his cockney accent that wasn't great. His elderly RP accent apparently did fool lots of people.
Hi guys, audio quality is good and its good to see you both back ❤
5:06 As far as I can tell, Hugh Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, one of the larger towns IN the county of Staffordshire (the county town of which is Stafford, hence the name).
The Creative County
Stoke-on-Trent is a city, not a town. It was formed by amalgamating 6 towns together: Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent (note the difference between it and the city name), Fenton, and Longton. The nearby town of Newcastle-under-Lyme refused to join, even though there is not any apparent countryside between it and the city. It was formed in 1910, and took its name from the town where the railway station was placed. Its main shopping centre is placed in the town of Hanley.
Although Stafford is not a city, and most of Staffordshire is in the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield. Captain Smith of the RMS Titanic was born in Hanley (part of Stoke on Trent), but his memorial sculpture is in Lichfield because Hanley is in the Diocese of Lichfield.
@@jerry2357used to be a big mural of him on the potteries shopping centre staircase from car park in Hanley for absolutely years. As a kid really stood out.
he also became great friends with the guy that played hannibal, when they both starred in the 'king arthur' film with clive owen and ray winston(i think keira knightly was in it aswell...)
Did you also know that Kim Cattrall was British she was born in Liverpool!! 😊 Also if you want to watch a film with Christian Bale, watch Empire of the Sun, it was his movie debut and he was just a child still with his British accent!
Andrew Lincoln started off playing a lawyer over 30 yes ago called This Life. And played a teacher in the comedy drama Teachers. !
Peace love from England ❤
The Wire had two major stars who were Brits, Dominic West and Idris Elba. The star of Homeland, Damien Lewis is also British
Sounded fine to me, great to have you back on, should definitely check out blackadder (goes forth, is best in my opinion) the difference in hugh laurie from his character in house just shows the variation and talent he has
Will have to check and see if that's one we can do, as I know you've mentioned it in the past as well. :) Hope you and your family have an awesome weekend, Mark!
@@reactingtomyroots Blackadder (except series 1) is regarded by many Brits as the greatest British comedy of all time, so you certainly should check it out mate, even if just for fun
Hi. I love your reactions. As I left the UK when I was very young and recently returned, a lot of what you react to is also new and interesting for me. I therefore found this video quite difficult as I couldn't hear properly what was being said on the video you were watching. I personally would prefer that you guys and the video are at the sane volume, and that you pause when you want to comment. That way we get to enjoy the video as well as your reaction. Hope that makes sense. Love you guys. 💜🤗
It's the way Rick is so light spoken that got me
You two need to watch “Empire of the Sun”, as soon as you can find it! Christian Bale was 13 in that movie, and I saw it before he ever left the UK, so his move to the US wasn’t until he was an adult. Before he filmed Batman Begins, he accepted the lead role in The Machinist, which had us all rather worried for his health! So far, so good, but it wouldn’t surprise me if some side effects from making that film hit him in later life.
Brilliant movie also do-starring John Malkovich
I liked him in Henry V with Kenneth Branagh.
2 notable performances from British actors I think are Dominic West in the wire!
And Kelly macdonalds brilliant southern accent in No country for old men.
If you’re going to mention Dominic West in the Wire, then you have to mention Idris Elba too.
Honourable mention is John Mahoney, who played Frasiers dad Martin Crane.
Funnily enough the actor playing Frasier's son in the new series is British.
I believe they had to remove the word Wednesday from his dialogue because he couldn’t say it in an American accent.
And born in my home town of Blackpool.
No way! I didn't know this. I only know him from Frasier and also the voice of General Rogard from the Iron Giant 😅 who is a general in the US army!
Good box this month. Nice products. Looking forward to cosy nights in and keeping warm lol
The most amazing thing about Hugh Laurie is that he played Bertie Wooster a posh 1920s British playboy comedy with an amazing aristocratic accent. You can't get a more British accent.
Christian Bale does not have a Welsh accent 😂 how can they not hear that
Yep. it's a generic South of England accent.
Can the average Brit tell the difference between New York and Boston accents?
@@DesertRoamerUKyes
@@DesertRoamerUKAbsolutely I can.
@@DesertRoamerUK Speaking only for myself but yes, I think so.
Andrew Lincoln was in a programme call This Life years ago... its well worth a watch.
did you watch Teachers? first thing i seen him in, pretty funny
Are you thinking of Afterlife ? The series set in Bristol and he’s a psychiatrist/ professor at the University ……and a woman ( Lesley Sharp) who sees dead people , including HIS dead son and he’s a TRUE sceptic of people like her ……becomes his patient ?
Very brilliant series , acting off the scale superb , dark , moving , emotional and SO good , I bought the dvd box set .!!! 👋
Egg in This life was brilliant I loved that show, and he was my favorite.
@@ruks-yl4utteachers was brilliant
@@Fanackapan101-hh5elAndrew Lincoln was in both Afterlife and This Life
Great video and love watching you guys react. You may be surprised that many of the main cast in The Walking Dead are Actually British. Us Brits don’t necessarily have much to be proud about our country these day but for a tiny little island our contribution to the world of movies, music & arts in general is unrivalled. Keep up the great work and keep well. 😀🙏
Really? I find them moronic.
Re the Walking Dead question: we’re just all zombies with polite police officers using their calming tone and community knowledge to keep us from being too rambunctious
“Now now, let’s talk about this desire for human flesh over a cup of tea a nice digestive biscuit”
Really enjoy watching some of these, our 2 nations forget how much we have in common, really enjoyed it when he said "programme" instead of "show" but then I found it amusing because you guys would spell it "program" 😂
4:11 err Spider-Man???? Probably his most famous role
Also 2 from iconic US shows
Idris Elba (The Wire)
Damian Lewis(Band of Brothers/Homeland)
Kate Winslett (Mare of Eastown)
or movies
Daniel Day-Lewis in anything
Michael Sheen played Nixon (he's Welsh)
Michael Sheen played David Frost, a Brit, in Frost/Nixon. But Sheen did play William Masters in The Masters of Sex, who was American.
Michael Sheen is an amazing actor. He lives not far from me and often he will be seen in the local supermarket
Tom Hiddleston, playing Hank Williams in 'I Saw The Light', even _sings_ with a strong US accent.
@@Bikergirl_40 Michael Sheen may be a good actor but he's also a massive douchebag. Pity, since I discovered that, everything he's in is ruined for me. I'm utterly unable to separate the art from the artist, which sucks.
Andrew Lincoln first appeared on our screens in a show called this life.
I loved this life and teachers 🤗
I absolutely ADORED Egg!
As Egg. I loved that show
I watched an old programme from the 50s called the adventures of Jim Bowie. Now I'm a old man I've just discovered that the man who portrayed Bowie is actually British.
Sorry forgot to say, just recently started watching you guys and I think you are fab! ❤🇬🇧
If you want to find out who all these actors that are with British accents then watch the Graham Norton show. They all use their native accents when they’re on the show plus it’s a fun show.
If you keep in mind that an actor is only using his/her selected accent for only a few hours a day when working, falling back into their native language is not much of demand to make. Also they are only using the assumed language when working, not at home with family and friends.
Im also really impressed with the guy hosting the video you're watching, for pronouncing "Staffordshire" properly, as Staffordsher (no hard R, lol) and not Staffordsheer or Staffordshyer
Shame he then called it a city (or town?)
You two are great.One of my favourite UA-cam channels.