And then you can't talk about actors and say "Oh there accent is the same in all the movies.... except for this one and that one, pretend those are not there"
What? No mention of Keanu Reeves attempting an English accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula? How about Bela Lugosi never shedding his natural Transylvanian-Hungarian accent?
Well, Keanu has done English, surfer dude, and southern accents more than once. Apart from his old surfer accent, the only one he probably nailed was his accent in The Gift. Yeah, he's not known for doing accents, but he's surprisingly done more than any of the actors mentioned on this list.
StrasbergProtégé I get that, I saw Red Heat. But all the other ones on the list are native English speakers asked to do an accent while speaking English and he isn't.
antrazi taj yep that's fair speaking as someone whose cousin is married to an austrian which is what Arnold is English is not their first language so I agree ☝️
Actually, Michael Caine has done accents, though not always well: he did an upper-class accent in Zulu, a Scottish accent in Kidnapped, the drawling acccent of the American south in Hurry Sundown and a New England Accent in The Cider House Rules. Sean Connnery is well placed on this list, although he did have a slight Irish accent in The Untouchables.
Haman Karn the video says actor who CANT do accents and he cant do other accents but French even when most of the times he plays US characters such as Guile and Frank Dux.
True fact, my old voice teacher on my Drama course told me his friend (also a voice teacher) worked with Sean Connery to perfect a Russian accent for "Hunt for Red October" and he actually did it perfectly. But for some unknown reason he dropped it when it came to filming the movie. Much to his coach's annoyance.
Concerning Michael Caine, you’re wrong! He played an amazing role in Secondhand Lions as a Texan and put on the accent so well, it sounded completely authentic.
she is also wrong that Sean Connery begin his career as James Bond being his first movies although his break through role was as James Bond he did a handful of lower budget films. Michael Mcbride a character from Darby O'Gill and the little people was a much earlier character from a much earlier movie then bond
Actually, Arnold went through speech therapy to ensure that he wouldn't lose his trademark accent, rather than it being because he learned it as an adult. Also his crowning bodybuilding achievement is that he was 7x Mr Olympia, the biggest bodybuilding award, not Mr Universe.
Michael Caine HAS done accents on numerous occasions. Southern Accent in Secondhand Lions. If memory serves, he put on an accent in Sleuth when he disguised himself as a detective. And Connery put on a rather posh English accent for the early Bonds.
I'm 21 years old, so I've never seen a film with Christopher Walken and this video made me feel so ashamed of that fact because with what little acting they showed of his in this video I can tell he is a remarkable actor!
Anyone else start doing Arnie and Sean voices when they popped up on screen? LOL Others to add Liam Neeson, Jason Statham, Stallone, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere and Bill murray And anyone trying to do eastern european/middle eastern accents ;D
disagree with jason and willis cause jason statham most of the time uses hes natural uk accent but has quite a lot of movies where he uses the cockny accent and willis has a lot of movies where he changes he's accent too for example in vice im sure there are more
gingergreek UK/Aus -> US: 1. Hugh Jackman 2. Daniel Day Lewis 3. Hugh Laurie 4. Andrew Garfield 5. Tom Hardy 6. Cate Blanchett 7. John Boyega 8. Helena Bonham Carter 9. Andrew Lincoln 10.Idris Elba Christian Bale and Russell Crowe probably both should be on here also.
"playing a Nazi officer without a German accent" WELL THANK GOD HE DID! Jesus. Why do people always do this, it's so terrible. Firstly, the accents they put on are usually straight up offensive. Secondly, get this: A German wouldn't be speaking to another German in English with a German accent. They wouldn't be speaking English at all, they would speak German. So, basically everyone is pretending they were all talking in their mother tongue, meaning for the length of the movie English=German, right? And we don't have any kind of foreign accent when we speak our own language, so why would they have an accent in the movie? It just makes it seem like they're actually foreigners and confuse you about whether or not the character is actually German. They ruined entire movies with that horrible notion that "hey every actor in this movie that takes place ENTIRELY IN GERMANY where ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE GERMAN should speak like an embarrassing old bavarian German politician trying to communicate with other nations" - this is how they ruined The Book Thief... Don't blame Tom Cruise for being the only one who got the concept right!
Sir Michael did fantastic with his Texan accent in Secondhand Lions. What these celebs on that list should do is work on accents from dialect coaches and other things.
Also, Tom Cruise in American Made (2017). It's not that his southern accent is bad, but it's just sounds so weird hearing him talk like that. We're just so used to him talk like, well, Tom Cruise.
Which is strange in Connery's case because I actually did hear him use a fluent American accent in an interview once (I'm trying to find it) but he said that no one wanted him to change his accent at times... Though maybe I could have dreamed it all up and need to check myself into a loony bin. I'll see what comes XD
Keith David doesn't really do accents. He's the actor that played Shadowman in "The Princess and the Frog" and Lester Wallace in "Barbershop." He currently plays Bishop Greenleaf on the TV show "Greenleaf."
This video is off the mark completely on Schwarzenegger. Guys like him and Van Damme actually had their own personal (language) coaches to make sure they did NOT lose their accents from living in America. Their accents were their bread and butter and they knew it. They weren't afraid of their accents, it was the other way around - they were afraid of losing the accent and losing branding.
to be fair to Kevin Cosner, the English accent in the middle ages was likely closer to the American accent than the Current British accent since that came into common use in the UK during the early 19th century. The accent came from the Nobles in southern England.
This is a pretty stupid list, especially since I only clicked it because the title is "actors who can't do accents" and it turned out to be "actors who don't do accents." It's actually a big difference since one implies a bunch of actors attempting accents and failing, and one is more about actors who refuse to do accents. You guys must really be running out of content at this point...
List any American stars from the forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies, and you won't find them doing accents. Can you imagine John Wayne, James Stewart, or Henry Fonda doing an accent? Not me.
Good point. Later actors like Steve McQueen and Paul Newman rarely did. I don't think McQueen did in Papillon though the character was French. Would be pointless anyway since French people speak French to each other not English with a French.accent. Same goes for Tom Cruise.in Valkyrie. No need for a German accent
Being from Texas who lpst their accent, I love listening to Tommy Lee Jones, Matthew McCougnhey & Woody Harrelson talk. All 3 should be in a drama that takes place in Texas.
No mention of Nicholas Cage's terrible southern accent in Con-Air? How about Keanu, with the exception of his attempt of a British accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula?
Jason Statham should be on the list. Despite that he has doing films in the US for many years, I haven’t seen him doing an American accent. He always uses his British accent in US films.
What a moment you're missing one of Connery's roles where he sort of did a Irish accent.. that be the movie darby o'gill and the little people.. Connery played Michael McBride
Kevin Costner is from ...about a mile from where I'm setting, Villa Park High (I think he went there) so it's sorta cool to know what I sound like when I talk if he has a 'california accent' lol.
WatchMojo.com can you do a list of the top 10 reasons why the Alpha and Omega sequels might be the worst animated movies and a list of the top 10 reasons why Stinky, Claudette and Runt from the Alpha and Omega sequels are some of the worst characters in fiction. Also can you do a list of the top 10 most delicious cake and pie flavors and a list of the top 10 Death Row inmates with the most gluttonous, biggest and most extravagant lasted meal requests.
Well in case of tom cruises portrayal of stauffenberg it simply makes no sense, stauffenberg was talking german to his comrades not english, so either film the whole flick in german or just in standard english, would have been totally stupid to have a stauffenberg talking broken english with a german accent.
Sean Connery may not do accents but he does sing in a movie! It was before he was Bond and his accent is still... pretty much the same. Darby O'Gill and the Little People is what it's called. If you like old movies you may like this one, too.
Lucas black, from the fast and the furious: Tokyo drift, he declined a film directed by Robert Redford because required a different accent since he has a very thick accent from Alabama
If musicians count I would have thought that Sir Jagger as Ned Kelly would have at least gotten a dishonorable mention. Also, Walken already has a distinctive voice and accent, it's just his is all his and it's what is called a 'Walkeny' accent.
I have a film theory, Men In Black exists in every movie universe. It's just that in some universes they are better at covering it up than in other universes. I luv that franchise so much. I want them to make a fourth installment.
Watching movies has taught us that it isn't necessary to learn a foreign language. Just fake a foreign accent and anyone who speaks the language will be fooled into thinking that you're a native. That technique is especially common in movies with Russians and Germans. With the exception of "Inglorious Basterds," it has fooled them every time.
Arnold is a wonderful "presence" does great in physical roles but it's best if you don't let him speak much. I would say the same about Clint Eastwood. Few actors can pull off different accents, successfully. Meryl Steep and Daniel Day Lewis come to mind as two of the best.
another easy #1 this time around. saw arnie in the thumbnail and knew who would top the list. didnt disappoint.. not like that time in the zombie killing games list where doom, the game that basically started the zombie killing wasnt even mentioned.
Matthew McConaughey, in his defense, is from Texas. In the Director's Comments from the film Frailty, director Bill Paxton recruited native Texans for the lead roles: McConaughey, Powers Boothe, and himself. But in other films, only Paxton doesn't have a Texas accent. Another actor that could have been mentioned here is Cary Elwes. A good actor, notably from The Princess Bride and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, when he tried to be an American, such as in Liar, Liar, Twister, and Glory, he really fails.
I thought Connery's James Bond accent was a British accent. also Tommy Lee Jones attempted an Irish accent in one of his flicks, Blown Away, albeit not very convincingly. He even portrayed Gen MacArthur with a Texas accent, in "The Emperor."...so a tourist is traveling through texas, and says to a Texan, "your accent is very noticeable." the Texan replies, "what accent? your is the only accent i hear."
Interesting topic but kind of inaccurate . Caine has pulled off American accents fairly convincingly for movies like The Cider House Rules (for which he won an Oscar) and Secondhand Lions, and Cage has done the American Southern accent in a few movies. 1-6 are pretty spot-on though.
if you gonna mention Micheal Caine, at least mention that the man won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for using an New England accent in The Cider House Rules. I mean, c'mon
What about Jean Claude Van Damme a Belgian actor he never speak in an American accent no matter what movie or who he play as. He always speak in the same Belgian French accent.
Watchmojo should do a little bit of research. Tom Cruise does pretty decent french accent in Interview with the vampire which I actually think is his best performance. Also didn't Michael Caine win an Oscar playing an american?
I'm quite surprised you didn't say anything about Nicolas Cage's abysmal attempt at a Southern accent in ConAir. However, the title would then be about actors who SHOULDN'T try to do an accent.
Schwarzenegger IS the accent
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) no its his voice
nau plein zeroo
PUT DA COOKIE DAUWN!
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Get to the chopper
AGREED
Where the fuck is Samuel L. Jackson. That dude was a jedi and still sounded like he was about to kill some snakes on a plane.
Hockey Life he was standing next to Matthew McConaughey in a clip....
Arnold doesnt need to do Accent.
HE IS THE ACCENT!!
Ferdy Hoshigaki Tube total mind fuck
I'll be back
I read that with his voice in mind
I chuckled
Lol and he’s 72 and still cute
By "can't do accents" I would've thought you meant, "tried to do an accent & failed", not that "won't".
Guernicaman That's what I thought too. I was expecting to hear a bunch of actors attempting and failing to do accents. But this list was cool too
They probably don't because they can't. And some of them have tried and failed. Um, Kevin Costner.
Kali Maxine one person doesnt qualify as some.
Actos who don't do accents and actors who can't do are different things Watchmojo, change the title
And then you can't talk about actors and say "Oh there accent is the same in all the movies.... except for this one and that one, pretend those are not there"
THIS I came here to say THIS!
What? No mention of Keanu Reeves attempting an English accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula? How about Bela Lugosi never shedding his natural Transylvanian-Hungarian accent?
Amanda Pike Sean Connery isn't alone. Gerard Butler is an evident example of inability to make accents.
Keanu should have been on the list, or at least had an honourable mention.
Keanu Reeves in Dracula was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the title of this video
Well, Keanu has done English, surfer dude, and southern accents more than once. Apart from his old surfer accent, the only one he probably nailed was his accent in The Gift. Yeah, he's not known for doing accents, but he's surprisingly done more than any of the actors mentioned on this list.
BoingTarash1960s EXCELLENT "air guitar"
jack Nicholson always sounds like jack Nicholson
Naming Arnold Schwarzenegger is a bit unfair. You try to do an accent in a language that's not native to you
+antrazi taj
Some of his attempted accents have sounded incredibly forced though, like his supposed Russian accent
StrasbergProtégé
Yes, a Russian accent while speaking English. Lets hear his Russian accent while speaking German and then we can compare
antrazi taj
I meant that he has attempted to do a Russian accent, but failed miserably
StrasbergProtégé
I get that, I saw Red Heat. But all the other ones on the list are native English speakers asked to do an accent while speaking English and he isn't.
antrazi taj yep that's fair speaking as someone whose cousin is married to an austrian which is what Arnold is English is not their first language so I agree ☝️
These should've been on the list:
Sylvester Stallone
Michael Douglas
Robert Duvall
Those three have amazing and distinctive voices and accents
Jodie foster, jack Nicholson , joe pesci
Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Jet Lee and Jean Claude Van Damme
Jason Statham should be top of this list lol, the guy never changed his English accent in any of his movies.
Darth FatCow he doesn’t need to
Christoph Waltz as well
Same thing I said
Please have Keanu Reeves in the Top 3! His "performance" in Dracula still disturbes me.
Awfully Romanian accent
they forgot Samuel L Jackson
The mutha fuckers
he doesn't do accents. he did a lisp once tho
His is more a decibel level than an accent
Actually, Michael Caine has done accents, though not always well: he did an upper-class accent in Zulu, a Scottish accent in Kidnapped, the drawling acccent of the American south in Hurry Sundown and a New England Accent in The Cider House Rules. Sean Connnery is well placed on this list, although he did have a slight Irish accent in The Untouchables.
Caine can't do an American accent.
Clark Gable's most iconic roles were an Englishman (Spencer Christian), and a Southerner (Rhett Butler); and both done in his natural Ohioan accent.
You forgot Jason Statham. Oh wait, he can't act.
Sal3600 Are you dumb?
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Biagio Marcello I am.
Hummingbird/redemption is a great movie that makes you feel sorry for him at the end
Sal3600 True story lol.
Jean Claude Van Damme??? How come you left him out??
Cain Nuke ohhhh fuck off
He always plays a French or Belgian guy so it's not like he has to go out of his way for his roles.
Try me bitch
Haman Karn
the video says actor who CANT do accents and he cant do other accents but French even when most of the times he plays US characters such as Guile and Frank Dux.
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Before watching the video:
Ahnold
Keanu Reeves
Sylvester Stallone
Samuel L Jackson
Kevin Costner
Should be on there.
Jarallah you got 2 of them
True fact, my old voice teacher on my Drama course told me his friend (also a voice teacher) worked with Sean Connery to perfect a Russian accent for "Hunt for Red October" and he actually did it perfectly. But for some unknown reason he dropped it when it came to filming the movie. Much to his coach's annoyance.
Concerning Michael Caine, you’re wrong! He played an amazing role in Secondhand Lions as a Texan and put on the accent so well, it sounded completely authentic.
she is also wrong that Sean Connery begin his career as James Bond being his first movies although his break through role was as James Bond he did a handful of lower budget films. Michael Mcbride a character from Darby O'Gill and the little people was a much earlier character from a much earlier movie then bond
He can't do an American accent.
Actually, Arnold went through speech therapy to ensure that he wouldn't lose his trademark accent, rather than it being because he learned it as an adult.
Also his crowning bodybuilding achievement is that he was 7x Mr Olympia, the biggest bodybuilding award, not Mr Universe.
Adrian yup
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Um excuse me Watchmojo. Michael Caine can do a convincing posh British accent.
Zulu
He is British
@@Royanexus6 Yes, and he wasn't bad in Educating Rita, and passed as a Doctor from Maine in the Cider House rules.
that texas thing in "second hand lions." nuff said
Sean Connery can do plenty accents. He does
Scottish Russian
Scottish Irish
Scottish English
Scottish American e.t c
When he was James Bond he only sounded slightly Scottish.
Michael Caine HAS done accents on numerous occasions. Southern Accent in Secondhand Lions. If memory serves, he put on an accent in Sleuth when he disguised himself as a detective. And Connery put on a rather posh English accent for the early Bonds.
I'm 21 years old, so I've never seen a film with Christopher Walken and this video made me feel so ashamed of that fact because with what little acting they showed of his in this video I can tell he is a remarkable actor!
Sean Connery, Hunt for the Red October.
"Scuttle the ship until the fleet arrives"
Anyone else start doing Arnie and Sean voices when they popped up on screen? LOL
Others to add Liam Neeson, Jason Statham, Stallone, Bruce Willis, Richard Gere and Bill murray And anyone trying to do eastern european/middle eastern accents ;D
Ooooh could you guys do 10 best/ seemless American accents by British/Australian actors? and vice versa?
disagree with jason and willis cause jason statham most of the time uses hes natural uk accent but has quite a lot of movies where he uses the cockny accent and willis has a lot of movies where he changes he's accent too for example in vice im sure there are more
gingergreek
UK/Aus -> US:
1. Hugh Jackman
2. Daniel Day Lewis
3. Hugh Laurie
4. Andrew Garfield
5. Tom Hardy
6. Cate Blanchett
7. John Boyega
8. Helena Bonham Carter
9. Andrew Lincoln
10.Idris Elba
Christian Bale and Russell Crowe probably both should be on here also.
That's the opposite
very nice list
No honorable mentions. Are you serious? Not even for Liam Neeson? That guy is a great actor, but he just can't get rid of his Irish accent.
bereta94 the fact that John Wayne couldn't even get an honorable mention is just sad.
Donovan Dinkins Legend.
Jubilee Gabriel Mateo Yes, I have. And his Irish accent did not escape my notice. xD
Ra's al Ghul didn't sound very Irish
i didn't even know he was irish till i saw the lego movie.
"playing a Nazi officer without a German accent" WELL THANK GOD HE DID!
Jesus. Why do people always do this, it's so terrible. Firstly, the accents they put on are usually straight up offensive.
Secondly, get this: A German wouldn't be speaking to another German in English with a German accent. They wouldn't be speaking English at all, they would speak German. So, basically everyone is pretending they were all talking in their mother tongue, meaning for the length of the movie English=German, right? And we don't have any kind of foreign accent when we speak our own language, so why would they have an accent in the movie? It just makes it seem like they're actually foreigners and confuse you about whether or not the character is actually German.
They ruined entire movies with that horrible notion that "hey every actor in this movie that takes place ENTIRELY IN GERMANY where ALL THE CHARACTERS ARE GERMAN should speak like an embarrassing old bavarian German politician trying to communicate with other nations" - this is how they ruined The Book Thief...
Don't blame Tom Cruise for being the only one who got the concept right!
Sir Michael did fantastic with his Texan accent in Secondhand Lions. What these celebs on that list should do is work on accents from dialect coaches and other things.
No Jason Statham and/or Owen Wilson? Vince Vaughn? Mark Wahlberg?
Last time I was this early America still had a future
Michael Cain can do an upper class English accent too, as proven in Zulu. The only film I liked him in :P
Kaine actually did put a Scottish accent on for the adaptation of Kidnapped. And did a half decent job
Also, Tom Cruise in American Made (2017). It's not that his southern accent is bad, but it's just sounds so weird hearing him talk like that. We're just so used to him talk like, well, Tom Cruise.
Which is strange in Connery's case because I actually did hear him use a fluent American accent in an interview once (I'm trying to find it) but he said that no one wanted him to change his accent at times... Though maybe I could have dreamed it all up and need to check myself into a loony bin. I'll see what comes XD
Honorable mention: Jean Claude Van Damme!
And Steven Seagal!!
And Jackie Chan.
For their defense, Jackie Chan is Chinese and JCVD is Belgian ^^
And Arnold Schwarzenegger is Austrian...so what? He made the list.
Superibis which means his accent has French undertones because last time I checked Belgians spoke French as well as Dutch and flemish
Keith David doesn't really do accents. He's the actor that played Shadowman in "The Princess and the Frog" and Lester Wallace in "Barbershop." He currently plays Bishop Greenleaf on the TV show "Greenleaf."
What I learned: If you're from Texas, forget accents
in Texas, outsiders have accents, we dont
When i see the title it remind me Terminator.
miceal kaine played a southern american in second hand lions.
This video is off the mark completely on Schwarzenegger. Guys like him and Van Damme actually had their own personal (language) coaches to make sure they did NOT lose their accents from living in America. Their accents were their bread and butter and they knew it. They weren't afraid of their accents, it was the other way around - they were afraid of losing the accent and losing branding.
michael caine won an Oscar playing an American in The Cider House Rules
if i don't see James Earl Jones then im disliking
to be fair to Kevin Cosner, the English accent in the middle ages was likely closer to the American accent than the Current British accent since that came into common use in the UK during the early 19th century. The accent came from the Nobles in southern England.
In the middle age they speak like westcountry accent.
This is a pretty stupid list, especially since I only clicked it because the title is "actors who can't do accents" and it turned out to be "actors who don't do accents." It's actually a big difference since one implies a bunch of actors attempting accents and failing, and one is more about actors who refuse to do accents. You guys must really be running out of content at this point...
English coffee accent, hahahhahahahahhhahghahahahah.....didn't know it was a term used
They used the term cockney!
Michael Caine in Secondhand Lions
got it!!!
Tommy Lee Jones did the Irish accent when he played a crazy bomber in the movie Blown Away.
so yeah.
this is a list of amazing actors I love it!
List any American stars from the forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies, and you won't find them doing accents. Can you imagine John Wayne, James Stewart, or Henry Fonda doing an accent? Not me.
Good point. Later actors like Steve McQueen and Paul Newman rarely did. I don't think McQueen did in Papillon though the character was French. Would be pointless anyway since French people speak French to each other not English with a French.accent. Same goes for Tom Cruise.in Valkyrie. No need for a German accent
Being from Texas who lpst their accent, I love listening to Tommy Lee Jones, Matthew McCougnhey & Woody Harrelson talk. All 3 should be in a drama that takes place in Texas.
Rcker31BDrinkN yup
Woody Harrelson played a good Germany woman...galaxia!!!
No mention of Nicholas Cage's terrible southern accent in Con-Air?
How about Keanu, with the exception of his attempt of a British accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula?
incorrect, Michael Cain in Second Hand Lion, good southern accent he had
Hongers1 He did it was good.
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Jason Statham should be on the list. Despite that he has doing films in the US for many years, I haven’t seen him doing an American accent. He always uses his British accent in US films.
What a moment you're missing one of Connery's roles where he sort of did a Irish accent.. that be the movie darby o'gill and the little people.. Connery played Michael McBride
Kevin Costner is from ...about a mile from where I'm setting, Villa Park High (I think he went there) so it's sorta cool to know what I sound like when I talk if he has a 'california accent' lol.
Sean Connery in Darby o'gill and the little people. He even attempted singing in an Irish accent.
WatchMojo.com can you do a list of the top 10 reasons why the Alpha and Omega sequels might be the worst animated movies and a list of the top 10 reasons why Stinky, Claudette and Runt from the Alpha and Omega sequels are some of the worst characters in fiction. Also can you do a list of the top 10 most delicious cake and pie flavors and a list of the top 10 Death Row inmates with the most gluttonous, biggest and most extravagant lasted meal requests.
Well in case of tom cruises portrayal of stauffenberg it simply makes no sense, stauffenberg was talking german to his comrades not english, so either film the whole flick in german or just in standard english, would have been totally stupid to have a stauffenberg talking broken english with a german accent.
John Goodman. Richard Dreyfuss. Will Ferrell. David Cross. Paul Giamanti.
I'm surprised you overlooked Harrison Ford. He's one of the biggest movie stars in the world for the last 40 years and he hardly ever does accents.
Sean Connery may not do accents but he does sing in a movie! It was before he was Bond and his accent is still... pretty much the same. Darby O'Gill and the Little People is what it's called. If you like old movies you may like this one, too.
I would replace Nicholas Cage with someone like Antonio Banderas or something. let's not forget Nicholas Cage's southern accent in Con-Air.
Lucas black, from the fast and the furious: Tokyo drift, he declined a film directed by Robert Redford because required a different accent since he has a very thick accent from Alabama
If musicians count I would have thought that Sir Jagger as Ned Kelly would have at least gotten a dishonorable mention. Also, Walken already has a distinctive voice and accent, it's just his is all his and it's what is called a 'Walkeny' accent.
I have a film theory, Men In Black exists in every movie universe. It's just that in some universes they are better at covering it up than in other universes. I luv that franchise so much. I want them to make a fourth installment.
well, Michael Caine did try a Texan accent in second hand lions, maybe not that much.
Sir Michael Caine did change to a Texan accent in one movie called Secondhand Lions.
Watching movies has taught us that it isn't necessary to learn a foreign language. Just fake a foreign accent and anyone who speaks the language will be fooled into thinking that you're a native. That technique is especially common in movies with Russians and Germans. With the exception of "Inglorious Basterds," it has fooled them every time.
Arnold is a wonderful "presence" does great in physical roles but it's best if you don't let him speak much. I would say the same about Clint Eastwood. Few actors can pull off different accents, successfully. Meryl Steep and Daniel Day Lewis come to mind as two of the best.
Bruce Willis, Jackie Chan, Jason Statham, Steven Segal, Danny Trejo, Bruce Campbell.
Tommy Lee did a full blown Irish accent in Blown Away and they didn't even mention it. Stalone and Eastwood should be on here
You know Tom Cruise's Lestat in Interview with the Vampire was supposed to be French, right?
Amanda Pike he did a good French accent
another easy #1 this time around. saw arnie in the thumbnail and knew who would top the list. didnt disappoint.. not like that time in the zombie killing games list where doom, the game that basically started the zombie killing wasnt even mentioned.
Try Christopher Walken in the Biloxi Blues!, a Southern DI Sgt.
What about Harrison Ford. He’s never altered his voice except in Cowboys and Aliens
Matthew McConaughey, in his defense, is from Texas. In the Director's Comments from the film Frailty, director Bill Paxton recruited native Texans for the lead roles: McConaughey, Powers Boothe, and himself. But in other films, only Paxton doesn't have a Texas accent. Another actor that could have been mentioned here is Cary Elwes. A good actor, notably from The Princess Bride and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, when he tried to be an American, such as in Liar, Liar, Twister, and Glory, he really fails.
Johnny Depp, Gary Oldman, Meryl Streep, Peter Sellers, Daniel Day Lewis.........
Don't forget, in the Cider House Rules, Michael Caine tried to do an American Maine accent, but it still wasn't very good.
I thought Connery's James Bond accent was a British accent. also Tommy Lee Jones attempted an Irish accent in one of his flicks, Blown Away, albeit not very convincingly. He even portrayed Gen MacArthur with a Texas accent, in "The Emperor."...so a tourist is traveling through texas, and says to a Texan, "your accent is very noticeable." the Texan replies, "what accent? your is the only accent i hear."
Interesting topic but kind of inaccurate . Caine has pulled off American accents fairly convincingly for movies like The Cider House Rules (for which he won an Oscar) and Secondhand Lions, and Cage has done the American Southern accent in a few movies. 1-6 are pretty spot-on though.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but I don't remember ever seeing Sylvester Stallone changing his accent
Where. is. Keanu. Reeves? He has tried accents before and failed miserably every time. (Devil's Advocate, Bram Stoker's Dracula)
7:18 False, Arnold attempted a Texan accent in a deleted scene featured in the movie Terminator 3.
Top 10 moments where WatchMojo.com can't think of any more top 10 ideas.
Arnold's accent is what made him such a great actor
No Honorable mentions??? Are you sick, WatchMojo?
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Apparently, you forgot that Tommy Lee Jones had a very thick, Irish accent in “Blown Away“.
Watch "Far and Away". Tom Cruise does a pretty good Irish guy.
if you gonna mention Micheal Caine, at least mention that the man won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for using an New England accent in The Cider House Rules. I mean, c'mon
@WatchMojo How is Nick Cage in this??? Didn't he mimic Italian accent whilst playing in a italian soldier in the movie Captain Corelli's Mandolin??
I would've thought Sam Worthington made the list because no matter what accent he does in his movies he frequently slips back to an Australian accent.
What about Jean Claude Van Damme a Belgian actor he never speak in an American accent no matter what movie or who he play as. He always speak in the same Belgian French accent.
Watchmojo should do a little bit of research.
Tom Cruise does pretty decent french accent in Interview with the vampire which I actually think is his best performance.
Also didn't Michael Caine win an Oscar playing an american?
Michael Caine won that Oscar thanks to Harvey Weinstein. He didn't deserve it. Awful performance.
2:34 wow never knew that line in Killing Floor was a reference to a movie :O
And Nick Cage failed to do an Italian accent in Captain Correlli's Mandolin. Ironic as his father's father (Carmine Coppola) was Italian.
I'm quite surprised you didn't say anything about Nicolas Cage's abysmal attempt at a Southern accent in ConAir. However, the title would then be about actors who SHOULDN'T try to do an accent.