American actors pretending they are foreigners
Even Alicia Vikander's british accent I find kind of funny and annoying in the same time
I think the funniest is Ryan Phillippe, in the way of the gun. Funny because he uses his normal Delaware accent, but everybody thinks it to be some weird unplaceable foreign accent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFh9oOPq1rE&t=70s
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Some group of bitchy film critics used to give an annual "Dick Van Dyke Memorisl Award for the Worst Fake Accent".
I think it was the Harvard Lampoon.
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How about a movie actor in real life????? My vote?
Johnny Depp.
Why?
shareIn interviews, he sounds as though he's attempting different accents. That is when he isn't mumbling.
I suppose that may have to do with him living in France for some time and also staying in other countries. You pick up different accents from being around people with accents.
I'm mid western. We have certain inflections and are told that we have an accent. I have lived in the south here in America. Being around people from Atlanta, I would find myself picking up the accent and then becoming aware of it. I'd stop myself. That is what I meant about Johnny Depp. Is that clear?
It makes sense to me. At one time in my life I lived in Arizona for eight years. My mom said I picked up an accent from there. I could never figure out why she thought that. In Arizona, like Florida and California, so many people are from somewhere else that I didn't think there was a true Arizona accent.
shareI always got the feeling that there's "no there there" with Depp, like the guy in the "Who am I this time" story.
shareKyra Sedgwick in The Closer, and every Hollywood actor who has ever tried an "Atlanta accent".
There is no Atlanta accent. The city is all northerners (and Elton John). But actors insist on doing either a trailer park drawl or a Civil War southern belle. That's sorta like assuming all Australians sound like Crocodile Dundee.
Although I'm a fan...Kevin Costner's attempt at a British accent in Robin Hood.
shareI actually saw that movie and his attempt was bad
shareIt seems he tried in his first couple of scenes and then simply gave up.
shareAgreed
And he was wise to give up
I recall the explanation for his British failings. Costner apparently had too brief a window between Dancing With Wolves and Robin Hood to spend sufficient time with the dialect coach. It wouldn't have mattered as Alan Rickman would have stolen the film regardless.
shareI don't buy it, Costner always sucks at accents.
Rickman did indeed steal the movie, but his different style of acting did result in a movie with an uneven tone. That whole movie is kind of a mess.
Agreed on all counts.. I am a fan of Costner. Clearly not a skilled thespian however he does have "it" as demonstrated in numerous films as well as some noteworthy failures. Still he is in several of my faves, Fandango...a grossly underrated film featuring one of my favorite verbal exchanges: Philip. "You are the most irresponsible person I have ever met." Gardner, "well, somebody had to be." Bull Durham and Tin Cup, two light, enjoyable stories. And yes, he will never be confused with Lawrence Olivier
shareI agree. Some people have the knack, some don't. He doesn't.
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