Worst Accent Ever?
John Lithgow's awful attempt at a British accent is cringe inducing, every time he says a single word. It's one of those things where you would think the director would just say: "Let's just skip the accent, okay?"
shareExcept his character is South African. A former Apartheid era Special Branch intelligence officer.
shareHe is? When was this shown?
Lithgow was clearly going for an English accent, to match Krystal’s.
When that FBI or Treasury agent who comes with the cavalry at the end described who Eric Qualen was, that he was into industrial espionage and stealing diamonds etc.
shareYeah they mention that stuff but never that Qualen was South African.
shareHmmm maybe I recall it as him being South African. Maybe his character really was British military intel and Lithgow just didn’t carry the accent well
shareIt's even worse if it's supposed to be a South African accent.
They never mention his nationality, just that he's smuggled diamonds from South Africa. I'm pretty sure he's meant to be British, though.
Especially if he was supposed to be Afrikaner.
But yeah I’m guessing former British MI6.