Terrible accent
His accent is so bad in this, poor Jason. Really like him, but he can't do American accents well at all. Really bad!
shareHis accent is so bad in this, poor Jason. Really like him, but he can't do American accents well at all. Really bad!
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I think you'll find it isn't at all. He is trying to speak with an American accent. He can't do it. Pay attention.
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Oooh somebody's tired
I quite frankly don't care. The accent in the trailer is terrible. It's part American and part cockney
Nah i thought so too but it's deffo pommy
shareWouldn't you say that if he emigrated to this country, became a citizen, and joined the DEA until he retired that he'd have a partial American and a partial Cockney accent? So it isn't terrible, it's a natural progression.
*Amarillo* --Euripides? Eumenides!
To be honest, we are taking about Jason Statham, not an actor that would have really thought about that and decided to immerse himself in the character and give it a backstory!
shareNot necessarily. I've lived in the US for 15 years and still sound like I moved here from Britain yesterday.
shareWouldn't you say that if he emigrated to this country, became a citizen, and joined the DEA until he retired that he'd have a partial American and a partial Cockney accent? So it isn't terrible, it's a natural progression.
I think you'll find it isn't at all. He is trying to speak with an American accent. He can't do it. Pay attention.
Jees, let it go. This is old news and you are clearly a superfamily of the bad scented Statham.
Have you got nothing better to do than reply to old posts?
Shhh now
To me it sounded like is usual accent.
Now what WAS bad was Statham's "Texan" accent in Parker.
I winced through that whole ordeal.
He's pretty bad at most accents, but yes, that was horrendous!
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Now what WAS bad was Statham's "Texan" accent in Parker.
I thought this thread was going to be about James Franco's godawful "Southern accent."
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He wasn't trying to do an American accent, which is a good thing, because he simply can't. And there is nothing wrong with that. He tried to change his accent most notably for Parker when he was pretending to be a Texan, and it didn't work at all. Jason Statham is awesome, and I'm impressed with a lot of his performances, especially considering he has no formal acting training whatsoever.
shareOld post or not, I just saw the movie and he wasn't trying to do an American accent for most of the movie. At the start when he was wearing that silly wig in that undercover job he had, it sounded like he had a semi-American accent but wasn't sure and the movie wasn't worth re-watching at the start to confirm this.
shareAgreed, he was attempting an American accent when undercover. I was so relieved when he reverted back to speaking normally
shareSo they're making a film about a tough-ass ex US law enforcement all-American hard working middle class super dad in small town USA, call it HOMEfront, even place the star spangled banner on the promotional poster, but pick a guy with a British accent for the role!??? Doesn't make a lot of sense if you ask me...
shareHe's Sly's buddy, that's the only reason he was cast in this role.
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