I'm not ripping on his acting, i genuinley like to know.
He always has his natural accent in the movies i've seen him in.
I guess it's part of his schtick/trademark.
The only other actor i could think of that has a distinct accent in every movie is Liam Neeson.
˙ǝɯoɔǝq noʎ ʞuıɥʇ noʎ ʇɐɥʍ ˙ƃuıɥʇʎɹǝʌǝ sı puıɯ ǝɥʇ
I guess you're not familiar with Southern accents. He doesn't use the same accent in True Detective that he uses in Mud or in Free State of Jones. He didn't have a Southern accent in Amistad. I guess his directors prefer for him to use a Southern accent. There are a lot of actors who fake Southern accents (there are a lot of roles out there for Southerners) but usually pretty ineptly.
As for which actors with distinctive voices always use their native accents: Connery's always Scottish, Hopkins is always Welsh, Caine is always from London, De Niro, Walken and Pacino are always from New York. Now Tom Hardy keeps trying to do accents but with little success. He's a great actor, so is Fassbender, but neither of them can pull off an American accent.
I think it's mainly British actors working in the US (and Meryl Streep) who are big on mimicking accents. It extends their employment possibilities. It doesn't necessarily add anything to the authenticity of a performance and can be very distracting.
I respectfully disagree, but I think after Free State of Jones comes out you may change your mind. His accent in this movie is distinctively different from a Texas accent.
shareI am neither an American nor native English speaker, so no accent expert but if I remember correctly, he used a different accent for his SNL sketch "Town Hall Meeting".
shareI am neither an American nor native English speaker, so no accent expert but if I remember correctly, he used a different accent for his SNL sketch "Town Hall Meeting".That was soooo funny.
shareYou mean the sketch, his accent or what I wrote?
shareSorry! I meant the sketch.
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