Top 10 Worst American Accents By Non Americans
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Americans usually don’t think they have an American accent, until they hear it poorly done. These Non-Americans have some of the worst American accents we’ve ever heard.
List entries and rank:
#10: Orlando Bloom
“Elizabethtown” (2005)
#9: Lennie James
“The Walking Dead” (2010-)
#8: Simon Pegg
“Big Nothing” (2006)
#7: Chris O’Dowd
“Girls” (2012-)
#6: Ray Winstone
“The Departed” (2006)
#5: Colin Firth
“Main Street” (2010)
#4: Jason Statham
“The One” (2001)
#3, #2 & #1: ?
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What the hell? These aren't bad.
agreed, I don't see- rather hear the problem with their accents.
They sound find to me.
quite agree , there are several American actors whose British accents are painful though , check that one out . It's cringe worthy
As in people from Great Britain (or British) would have either English, Welsh or Scottish accents? "Accents and dialects vary widely across the United Kingdom; as such, a single "British accent" does not exist, but someone could be said to have an English, Welsh, or Scottish accent although these all have several different sub-types." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_accents_of_English
They all sound American to me. Am I missing something?
😂
yeah can't find what's wrong with there accents
Well Jason Statham could use some work
Is this sarcasm? Haha. They do sound like actors having trouble with an American accent for the most part...over annunciated, or raspy. Scotsmen usually have the worst time, especially at the start of their career. I don't blame them though, it is a thick accent.
I think the same too.they all sound american
As someone from South Carolina, I can say that Colin Firth’s southern accent is pretty on point.
This comment is super old...but...
Yeah, he was doing a Carolinian/southeastern accent. This video seem to think all southerners sound the same. There's a huge difference in accent as you move from the Carolinas to Kentucky, Louisiana, and Texas.
Mojo: "These accents are bad"
Also Mojo at 0:52 : "Leggle-ass"
Am I the only person not picking up on most of these "bad accents"?
No, I don't hear anything wrong with most of them.
+Cara D Damn, I havent even finished the video and I've already gotten 6 thumbs ups and a reply. Watchmojo must really be loseing thier edge, I kinda have a feeling that their going to end up like The Simpsons and just keep going.
Definately not
you'd have to hear their original accents I suppose. WatchMojo has been disappointing as of late
thank gosh this channel is back.
P.S screw poodle Corp.
they all sound pretty good to me, i mean.. i wouldn't point any of them out as english..
That's cause they're doing spot on American Accents... just not the right ones.
+Ramathorn it doesn't ruin the whole movie the moment it starts, though
Jane Doe Haha of course not. Collin Firths was pretty bad though XD
IKR.
Yes.. Most of them sound pretty good
Chris O'Dowd's accent was fine. Considering his thick Irish accent, he did very well. But, he will always be Roy in IT Crowd.
But then again, it was hard to hear these accents in thess .5 second snippets in between the narrator's 50 minutes of constant talking.
lmao literally was thinking the same exact thing
No offense but I think Emma Watson's performance as Sam in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" deserved to be on here
You do know that british accents are really strong
@@siredtom69 that's the point of the entire video
That was easily the worst American accent I've ever seen attempted on screen. I felt embarrassed for her.
@@taylorguerinwilkens9808I'm a non-native English speaker. I agree. Emma Watson's attempt on doing an American accent really sucks. She was the best playing Hermione Granger. But after observing her next projects after Harry Potter, I realized she's not that of a great actress. She can't pull off any challenging roles. She is very picky. I heard she was chosen to play Cinderella but she decided to play Belle instead. She tends to incorporate or associate her women empowerment ideals in a simple Disney role, when it's not even necessary.
I don't know but I view her as someone who feels very entitled in Hollywood just because she's British. There are much better non-American actresses out there.
I'd rather pick Margot Robbie. She can play any roles despite being Australian. Her gorgeous face meets the standards. She can do a princess role in a Disney movie, she can play Barbie, she can be in a historical movie, at the same time she can also play a badass character in a sci-fi movie. She's so dynamic and versatile. Her American accent is also the best.
I couldn't hear them over the narrator berating me with how bad the accents were.
RayDay EXACTLY!
Yeah, there's an awful lot of insistence on her point of view and not a lot of opportunity to hear what she's talking about. And for all the endless commentary, very little of it includes any actual analysis of what is supposed to be wrong.
Same every fucking video, half the reason I gave up on this channel.
She's here to explain not just show you, otherwise they would play entire songs when they do any top ten music videos.
She always talks way too much.....
Am I the only one who thinks they all sounds fine? If I didn't know they were British or Irish I would think they were American
Same, I don't see or hear anything wrong with it.
I'm from northern Illinois, and moved down to Texas. I'm used to hearing differences in speech, and picking up on it. I heard some slips, but overall, this was way too harsh. I agree.
They aren't nearly as bad as watchmojo is making it out to be. Some of the accents are tough to pull off even for American actors. For instance, I'm from Texas and I always feel like they over do it and make it reeeeal slow and drawly. We don't actually talk like that...lol! But even American actors do it!
You're not the only one. After they rattled off a few I thought this video was supposed to be a joke or something. I was expecting to hear people totally butchering things and sounding like an American doing a really bad Irish or British accent. But these people all sound just fine.
Besides most Americans have a really vanilla generic accent that doesn't have many distinctive characteristics that it would be obvious if they were butchered. Now if somebody was trying to portray a really specific really distinctive regional accent like a Boston or New York or Chicago accent it would be really obvious and sound ridiculous if done badly. But then most American actors even sound ridiculous trying to imitate those accents.
Haha was thinking the same, and I'm American.
ANY attempt at a "southern" accent. They're never right because they're actually a lot harder to get right than you'd think--even for other Americans. It's like the North American version of someone doing a Mary-Poppins-Cockney accent...just stop.
Liam Neeson, God bless his soul, CANNOT do an American Accent.
gonna be honest, as someone not American, these accents sound the same as any other American to me
Trust me, they suck.
Lol I feel the same way and now I wonder how my accent sounds to an american
inserts THANK YOU gif***
+KingDonWahed no amerikan says lol
I'm American, and most of them sound fine, lol.
Am I the only one that doesn't think these accents seem THAT bad?
They ARE that bad.
The issue is that they don't sound like they come from anywhere in the U.S. No region, or dialect, has their distinct sounds. They sound like they are foreigners who just spent a lot of time in the U.S. and so have a mishmash of accents.
they're bad
I didn't think they sound that bad... Then again I'm not American
a mismash of accents? isn't that american anyway?
Can we take a minute to appreciate the fact that Ewan McGregor is a a Scottish man playing Catcher Block who is English doing a caricature of a southern accent? He did great.
I'm a Texas native from Amarillo, and Colin Firth sounds legitimately like a Plains Texan, I think the little blend of his english accent and the exaggerated twang matches the accent
I think this is a bit of a reach. Speaking as an American, I don't find these to be so horrible as this video says. By these criteria, lots of Americans have bad American accents. Christopher Walken, for example.
Regarding accents becoming more pronounced during the most dramatic moments, plenty of real Americans do this, especially if they have "unlearned" regional accents in favor of what is considered to be unaccented American English. For instance, I used to date a woman from NYC, who only had an accent when she was angry.
I laughed really hard when you mentioned Christopher Walken. I imagined his voice, and you're totally right.
I totally agree, I am a American and I don't have a accent at all, but when I'm mad I turn very British I don't know why but it happens.
Ashley Slothower Yes. If he weren't American, people would say his "attempt at an American accent" was ridiculously horrible. :)
Umm we should all speak as Mr. walken does Pleb.
Yeah. I mean, I have a Northern Californian accent but I think the main trait of my "accent" is that apparently Californians talk fast so when I'm excited I talk quickly. Also, I think in the US accents within a state can simply vary by the pronunciation of certain things.
these american accents are perfectly fine??
No they're not
+Sun Kissed “khé’é” Nubian lmao no the fuck we don't. we don't put that much emphasis on the r
+Oh Shite You seriously do.
+Sun Kissed “khé’é” Nubian and you talk in clicks and tounges
+Oh Shite you're dumb
I'm American and absolutely none of these accents were bad. The thing is- America is huge, diverse and the accents vary so widely that virtually all of these could be believable in one way or another. Also- Lennie James on The Walking Dead does a tremendous job!
You're right America is so huge that it Is a whole continent
I think Lennie James does great at his American accent on TWD and FTWD. I didn’t even know he was British. I think if it sounds weird, it works bc his character Morgan is traumatized from the loss of his son and wife and went off the deep end, so it makes sense his speech patterns would be off
i dont agree with morgan lol i didnt even know he wasnt american until he went on talking dead other than jamie dornan and orlando bloom this list is kind of ridiculous
Agreed! Had NO IDEA Lennie James was British until he went on Talking Dead. I'll never forget it too...He started talking, I gasped, and then Chris Hardwick dramatically shouted, "YOU'RE BRITISH?!?!" X'D
No, I knew it the moment he opened his mouth. he sounds so hilarious during the serious moments. But to be fair, Maggie's fake southern accent is 10x worse and that actress was born in America.
I've lived in the South my whole life and I thought Morgan did a decent job. I never even knew he was Brittish til I saw him on Talking Dead. Shane's accent was the worst out of the cast imo. I cringed everytime he opened his mouth in the first season
+J. Marie your obviously not from the south the accent was spot on
Beauty Effulgent Yeah, that's true! Shane's was a little cringe-worthy and definitely forced, I'll agree.
as an american i honestly thought these all were pretty good
Eric Hain Other than Simon Peg.
most of them are okay and to people not in that region would sound fine but again an accent not being perfect is really low on my list of what makes a movie Bad. I love Simon Pegg but that accident was odd but I thought it made the move even funnier.
Jon Smith Oh yeah it definitely doesn't make the movie bad but it's a bit distracting.
simon pegg is awful as is ray winstone and Gerard butler but there are worse examples. Daniel Radcliffe, Benedict Cumberbatch and Jude Law in anything they have ever been in are far worse than many of the examples here - no one seems to notice.
Exactly
I'm an American and I thought they all sounded excellent.
The accents aren't bad. The person who gathered the clips is.
Top ten bad American accents judged by Watch Mojo's Canadians.
ikr meanwhile they weren't bad and even for Canadians they pronounce shit weird
+raidenkeify sure do eh?
Hum, dunno, here I was thinking that the reason I didn't find most of these accents bad was because I'm Canadian. *shrug*
+j. D. same here bro
Who can't pronounce "Legolas" correctly.
I mean, I know they actually have their viewers vote to create the lists, and then they have to come up commentary for it. But it doesn't help when you butcher "Legolas" - not that hard of a name. Unless I've been saying it wrong for DECADES.
If the commentator wasn't talking so much, we might be able to listen to the accents for than a more a few seconds at a time. WatchMojo is obnoxious.
Copyright law is a bitch, isn't it?
"Fair use" is a great bitch-blocker. WatchMojo should try it sometime.
@matt k.
Lol, so true.
“His *scottish accent* “
IT WAS A BRITISH ACCENT
AND HE’S SCOTTISH
Huh?
British accent doesn’t mean anything
As someone who's lived in the southern US most of their life, Colin Firth's accent sound spot on honestly.
"not a native American" did anyone else catch up on that?
It's all about context. No offense given within the context of that video.
Am I not native to America? Anyone born in America is a native American
did they mean a "native American" or a "Native American" lol that was my thought XD
+Senor Studly nah you're not native to America. You were born there but your traits are either from Africa or England
Well in this context, yeah, anyone born in America is a "native American" but in the grand scheme of things we're not ACTUALLY native Americans because we're descendants of the English and French that came through and colonized the area, or our ancestors got dragged here from Africa. Or maybe our grandparents came over during WWII. Whatever the case.
None of them were bad, really. I don't see the problem.
agreed
they weren't laughably terrible, but you could still it's not the actor's natural accent, which can pull the viewer out of the moment, and for some of us, be a bit cringey. For the accent to work, the viewers (particularly viewers from the same country as the character, so American viewers for American characters) need to be unable to tell that the actor is not actually from same place as the character. An example of a good American accent is Hugh Jackman, who if it wasn't for wikipedia, I as an American would never have known that he was Australian.
you're not american
Except Jason Statham and the actor playing Frenchie.
Michael L. not everything, just your idiotic comment
This video belongs to Top 10 worst Top 10 list... Congratulations
As an Irish American with a hidden Irish accent, I can definitely hear a few slips with some words
"was a French Actor, not a Native American" - - lets re word this hon.
native american means 'born in america'.
yeah, I just think of actual Native Americans and respect to their bloodline when I hear that term.
most "native Americans" as you say would hate to be called American.
lmao im native and i was just like... uhm not correct
Joseph Quinn that's the problem with euphemisms; what she said didn't sound correct, but it was. euphemisms tend to use the most generic language possible and end up stripping the words of their usefulness by chaining them to a narrow context. "Native" has nothing to do with ethnicity.
Yet another epic fail by MOJO.....these accents are fine.
They're terrible 😂😂😂
Okeeeeey....
No, they're all terrible.
ya
Nope.
In defense of Lennie James, as someone from the south whose families go back over seven generations, I'm constantly being asked by people what part of the north I'm from and they are usually shocked when the find out I'm not.
As am American who has toured 49 of the 50 states...I can say that all accents I've heard are all over the place! Even bad actor's accents are no more bad than the crazy things you hear while traveling around.
What the heck does Watchmojo know about accents? A lot of these are pretty good ???? The worst is #6 tho
and #1
#3 was too exaggerated
the problem is there is "no" american accent....its a melting pot of 20 different countries...
Agreed
I mean, yeah you make a point. But by that logic there's no "british" accent. There's Lancashire accents, Cornish accents, West Country accents, etc. But we identify something in all of those and generally pinpoint them to be British. Same thing with America. We have Midwest accents, New York accents, a ton of different Southern accents, and whatnot. It's true we're a "melting pot", but most major countries are like that. You can find accents from Canada, China, Burma, Australia, and Kenya all over the world - not just in America.
Ironically her pronounciation of "Legolas" was worse than any of these. Lenny James did amazingly.
RetsillAcM nairB I was thinking the same thing. When she said it I was like, wait, wtf did she just say??
"lego-lass" how is it supposed to be pronounced then? "layh-goe-las?"
deep citrus I’ve always said “leg-uh-liss”
I didnt know lenny is British
Erick Alex The person who makes up the name for a specific person gets to decide the pronunciation
colin firths accent was actually really good. thats how a lot of men sound like on the west side of my city.
Butler was quite literally getting way with murder with that Edinburgh accent all the way through the movie.
The hell is wrong with the Watch Mojo team? and their contributors? This is the most off the mark vid they've produced I think.
Read the full description, apparently not only was this video suggested, it was voted on. Therefore, I blame the whole world.
I'm not American, but I don't think and of the accents would be jarring enough to make me pay attention to it. Not in any of these films, maybe note a quirk and move on with my basement dwelling life.
any*
I am an American and I agree. Though I haven't seen any of these movies, based on what I heard here, none are too bad. Ewan McGregor's was a little off, and that guy in the Departed, but they still weren't bad enough that they would ruin the movie for me.
How is Robert Pattinson in Twilight nowhere in this video? The first time I saw the movie I thought "Oh, I didn't know Edward was supposed to be Swedish.", then I saw an interview with him and found out that was his attempt at an American accent.
yas the way he says "bellar" drives me crazy.
apropos that some git I was trying to work with thought himself an actor and did what may have been the worst English accent I've ever heard I remarked '' are you attempting to sound Swedish and deaf!!?'' if so bang on for that one ! I should've nutted him in the face !! but cooler thinking prevailed ENJOY THE MORNING LUV!!
What? I never noticed an accent.
They actually wanted his accent to be slightly off. That's why she says he sometimes talks like he's from a different time. Too bad Eduardo doesn't know what an early 1900's American accent sounds like.
Where exactly is he supposed to sound swedish?
In Star Wars: A New Hope, a lot of the 'American' accents were done by British actors. The bartender, 'We don't serve their kind here...', and the two imperial guards on the Death Star, 'TK421 why are you not at your post?' and 'Where are you taking this.....thing?'. The accents sound a little vague American, meaning you couldn't pin it down to any part of the US.
5:55 LMAO woah. the purple heart to Leonardo and Jack for keeping a straight face after that
lol a lot of these aren't bad at all.
Trust me,they suck.
I think so... I agree!!!!
+Samet kücük no they don't, sounds like every other american.
didnt know Lennie james was british
some of them are completely fine
Lennie James sounds great to me and I am southern. I can also say that my accent fades in and out depending on what I'm saying and who I'm talking to also.
He does pull it off better than most would. You can tell Maggie from TWD doesn't have a southern accent and Rick as well. But over all none are really bad.
I agree 100%... He was amazing! Was surprised to see him up there.
There are several southern accents and people get confused. I often go "Hey, That's a Texas accent!" People don't know what I'm talking about. And it's not my accent.
Yes
+ssscape yeah, living on the south east coast, we get a lot northerners vacationing for the summer, and accents get mixed up. so almost everyone here sounds the same to me.
Ah yes. Lego Lass. My favorite Lord of the Rings character! She had the power to build anything out of Legos.
Lennie James' accent was great.
There accents are all fine... The Walking Dead actor's was actually really good. What is this crazy lady talking about?
What?! No, Jason Statham and Lee Evans are hardly even trying. Gerard Butler clearly goes in and out of his scottish accent, Ewan McGregor overdoes it and the rest tend to over emphasize words.
I literally thought that he was american until now
I agree the actor who played Walking Dead had a pretty good accent and I thought he was American but Orlando Bloom not so much. I swear @1:23 Kirsten Dunst must have been laughing for real at just how bad the accent was.
Lennie James did a great southern accent if you ask me. I’m actually from Georgia, and I think it’s a pretty good representation of the accent! I also think Gerard Butler was good, but he does go in and out of accent here and there, but I think it’s just because his actual accent is so thick. Either way, most of these people are great. This person just ran out of good video ideas I guess.😅
Kyle Breedlove for real what
i would have never guessed that morgan from twd wasn't american, that one is kinda bs
his accent is gorgeous. I don't know what they're talking about.
When has scenes with Daryl you can tell.
No, he sounds weird, not really like anyone who grew up in America.
Lol his accent is a lot better than Andrew Lincoln’s
none of these were particularly terrible, Gerard Butler's was a bit wonky but I still remember liking that movie, and to be perfectly fair, southern accents as well as boston are some of the hardest accents to do, even Americans struggle with them
the only one that I thought was truly bad was Jason Statham, he just can't quite do it, and still sounds british. plus his voice and accent are so iconic its got a lot of uncanny valley feel to it to see him talk with that voice lol
Most of these examples were not that bad.
If I was making a list of the "Worst American Accents by Non Americans" I would include the entire cast of the video game "Heavy Rain" whose cringeworthy accents became memes and still haunts me to this day. (The actor who played Scott Shelby was thankfully an exception though.)
Also Hugh Dancy as Will Graham in Hannibal. I liked his portrayal of Will Graham, but his English accent kept leaking through in Season 1,.
I didn't know Orlando Bloom played a character named "Lego-Lass"
There's more legos than you think my brothar
Legolas was my first childhood crush 😂😂
How else would you say it?
I'm struggling to hear what is wrong here
never mind number 6 and 5 is where it picks up i guess
7:16 I'm a South Carolina native. His accent is pretty good. From what I've observed, people from South Carolina and North Carolina have similar dialects. It definitely sounds like a Carolina southern accent, which has a couple of different variations. His variation is not as thick as the ones I hear in my family, but the pronunciation seems to be the same and he does open his throat as much on any vowel sounds, which doesn't really mean accuracy. I haven't seen the entire movie, but from the clips you've shown, his accent isn't that bad. The Carolinas aren't that big in terms of film towns, so it's obvious that people don't know what somebody from either of the Carolinas sounds like.
As an American, for me most of the accents work OK if taken as being merely "an American accent" and not a specific regional American accent. The ones that jumped out to me were Winstone's and Statham's, the latter with a bizarre blend of English and New York. Far more odd-sounding than any of these was David Tennant's accent in Gracepoint.
the walking dead guy is great and no one has ever noticed his "bad accent"
Same I never thought anything about his accent till I watched this video
Honestly I didn't even know Lenny James was British until watching this video lol.
Andrew Lincoln is terrible . His "Kaaaarl" sounds so stupid.
I agree. I didn't know Rick or the governor were British for a long time either.
Yup. There are 3 or 4 actors doing terrible accents on that show and the guy featured in this video isn't one of them. I could tell Andrew Lincoln and Maggie's accents weren't genuine within like 10 seconds of hearing them.
By far the worst I've heard is Emma Watson. I really wish they would stop casting her as American. It pulls me right out of the movie every time I hear her slip.
None of these are nearly as bad as hers
And Cara Delevingne in Paper Towns
she's a really, really bad actor. Too bad, but so is most of the Harry Potter-kids. Except for that ginger kid
dandycliff2 Rupert Grint is who you're thinking about and yes, he is by far the best of the three. It's sad that he's been pushed to indie films since he doesn't have the standard looks that Emma and Daniel have.
Hear her slip where?? What movie? But I think Daniel Radcliffe is a fantastic actor.
I watched that horrendous film "Law Abiding Citizen" and felt was that Gerard Butler's American accent was fine. As for the Southern accent, I think the Walking Dead dude and Firth were fine, and Ewan was just overdoing it a bit.
Lee Evans’ “Tucker” character accent in There’s Something about Mary was a genius comedic performance!
The fact that the overly officious English accent that he used for his “handicapped” character came out of a pizza delivery dude was amazing! That shock of that alone was hilarious. I had no complaints about his generalized American dude accent in the second half of the movie. That was less important than him getting his perfect “phony” English accent down. Hiring an American actor to do a phony British accent would NOT have worked!
Gotta be honest... never really noticed brits doing bad american accents cause so many americans do bad american accents...
What
How can an American fail at their own accent? That makes no sense.
Lots of Americans do a bad job trying to sound Southern or Midwestern or Bostonian or like a New Yorker. Lots!
Like Nicolas Cage doing a southern accent
No one can or has ever done a real Phily accent. Two exceptions, Toni Collett in the Sixth Sense and Tina Fay nails it everytime.
Worst australian accents by non aussie people. Sick of the horrible fake accents
Lmoa they can't make a list that contains literally every contender
Haha ikr? A lot of them are hilariously bad though like Hank Azaria on The Simpsons XD
+PunchesintheMAIL lol
I find the Aussie accent one of the most difficult to do. It has such odd intonations for my ear
Kristen T Apparently it is derived from a very drunken generic English accent, if that helps
I’m Australian and an actor, so I’m trying to learn to perfect an American accent. But I might have to start my training over cause all these accents sound like pretty good American accents to me lol.
Are you kidding, I didn’t even know Morgan from TWD was British until this interview.
Emma Watson in the couple of movies where she plays an American... She messes up quite a bit when it comes to vowels and pattern of speech, sounds very much like a Brit trying to do a bad American accent.
yep I noticed that too
Accents are picked up as kids, so even living in another country won't help necessarily get the accent.
I even thought they included her on the list ..
agreed. she does a pretty bad American accent.
Agreed. I thought she'd be on the list. And Radcliffe. He tries very hide to have an authentic American accent for his movies, which is appreciated, but it doesn't come across as natural. It sounds like he's trying hard.
what's worse is when Americans try to do English accents
That's so true.
Peter Dinklage would like to have a word with you.
+BarackObamaLikesPoop 1 out of how many? come on man
If you think thats bad, imagine being Australian......
now americans trying to do an aussie accent is one of the most cringe worthy things you can imagine
If there's one accents the Brits can never do is a southern accent
These accents sound like freakin legit to me
There must be something wrong with my ears because I've always thought Lenny James nailed his accent in The Walking Dead.
Lennie James' American accent in twd is amazing. I didn't even know he was British until season 6 😂
I went till like 2017 not knowing Christian Bale was British lmao
Um ya this is my first time learning he is not American!
It wasn't bad.
I didn’t know Lennie James was European until he mentioned it in the video where the cast is saying goodbye to Steven Yeun and Steven’s thanking the fans. 😂
@Kai Evans I never knew he wasn't american. The actor for Rick Grimes on the other hand... I find his to be awful
Next time, WatchMojo.com, do a top 10 worst foreign accents by Americans. I am sure that it would be laughable.
Remember, they(watchmojo.com) are Canadian. Additionally, they already did a list of actors/actresses who can't do foreign accents, and most were American, not Canadian or other . . .
Y you butthurt?
Well, I didn't know that. Thanks.
Or just bad foreign accents in general.
I think the only reason they haven't done one is because there's too many to count.
Simon Pegg did great, and the fact that when you tried imitating him with a bad Southern accent emphasizes how much you don't know what you're talking about
One of my friends has a southern accent that goes in and out at times and gets deeper when he gets in serious conversations so I think Lennie's accent sounds alright
People always ruin southern accents even American actors end up sounding like they lived on a plantation in 1798 lol
fr I live in GA
Brandon Bowden I'm an Alabamian myself ❤
None anywhere are worse than Kevin Spacey in "House of Cards". Dear God!
I'm from VA and people still think I'm faking it. The issue is that southern accents are starting to phase out or become more subtle.
***** I sound like that sometimes
Remember when America thought Hugh Laurie was American because his accent was just so good
They weren't paying attention. He uses the same cadence and tends to EMPHASIZE the same SPACES over and over. Similar to Australian Hugo Weaving playing Agent Smith.
Shut up. He's amazing
Hugo Weaving's an aussie?! I thought he was english.
AGM_Flatline Nope he's an Aussie, although according to his wikipedia page he was actually born in Nigeria when it was still a British colony. So he was born with British citizenship, but has lived almost all his life in Australia and now has Australian citizenship.
+Go SKC What?
And keep in mind, for everyone who thinks these accents are good, you're hearing a few seconds here. Over the course of a whole movie, a poor accent becomes more obvious. Many British and (especially) Australian actors do great American accents, but not all of them are equal.
With Frenchy in The Departed, I just assumed that it’s an Irish and American accent meshed, I think it’s a pretty memorable accent lol
You guys are nuts. Morgan has a great accent
Actually most of them aren't bad. What I find ironic is that while mocking people's accents, you couldn't even correctly pronounce Legolas...after presumably hearing it spoken through six movies .
Agreed!
I agree, there's nothing wrong with Morgans accent.
Agreed!!!
i agree as well
I've heard a hell of a lot worse than this. There's an old episode of Doctor Who (first Cybermen episode, perhaps?) where they met some "Americans." It was kinda painful. I think this video was pretty harsh, to be honest.
Nat Grant yes
Colin Firth's is spot on.
I realize that you commented a year ago, but are you talking new who or classic who?
That gave me secondhand embarrassment. It's always failed English accent that people paid attention to, but witnessing English people attempting American accent and failed, it makes me cringe.
Was that the one with Nicola Bryant as peri brown?
How do people still not understand that southerners don’t actually pronounce every word/speak in general like they’re in an old western? Lennie did an awesome job. Even some words that sound the same, are pronounced differently from each other (depending on the person)-example: “Like”-some May use the sharp I (as in what would sound like “eye” and some may use the long “southern” I. And the word “die”-which can go the same way as explained above...some pronounce “like” with the ‘eye’ sound but at the same time pronounce “die” with the long, southern i sound. People that aren’t southern need to stop trying to critique southern accents
Orlando Bloom and Simon Pegg were the only ones that stood out only cause they didn’t sound confident in delivering their lines, so the breaks in their speech were more noticeable.
Legolas killed me. People seriously need to look up how to pronounce these names.
I busted up laughing at that point
MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY
Who doesn't want a Lego Lass? or Legol Ass ?
especially when you're dissing other people
Lego Lass, lol
All of them except, Lee Evans and Jason Statham, sound perfectly American to me.
A couple of the "southern" accents sounded more British.
Colin Firth sounds like a cartoon character version of a Southerner.
Orlando Bloom was bad.
I forget which one it was, but one Brit actor was obviously "plugging his nose" to produce an American accent. It just sounded like he had allergies and was congested. :-)
+MrJest2 maybe Jamie Dornan?
I thought James McAvoy did pretty good.
So the fact that most of the people in the comments are disagreeing with this video tells me watch mojo didn’t have anything better to make this day
People accents become more pronounced in real life during dramatic moments too like when they're angry or scared so that's not really inconsistency
i dont know... theres a lot of different american accents, not just one set accent. if i heard any of these on the street, i wouldn't guess that theyre not american
Exactly! I've lived in the US my entire life, and everyone has such unique accents even from one part of a state to the other. I wouldn't be able to tell for most of these that they aren't "American".
Not to mention a lot of the Scottish actors just end up sounding like they're from Boston
No. No u wouldn’t 😂😂😂
As a non-American, all those accents sound American
Yea, weird list..
If you were American, you'd be able to hear it. I'm American, and usually I'm the same way with Americans imitating other accents. It could sound like the worst British accent to someone actually living in the UK but I probably wouldn't give it a second thought.
As an American, they're not good.
Most foreigners don't understand American accents. They only think of the generic Hollywood accent in movies, but there are many accents and dialects in America.
+TheKnightBlade4 And none of these accents sound like an authentic American accent.
Even though it wasn't a well-known film Rebel Wilson's accent in Struck By Lightning was atrocious
It's mainly the southern accents that seem to throw the Brits. I think it's because every neutral-accented American has parodied a southern accent at some point, so we are very familiar with what fake southern sounds like. It's hard to nail it without it going overboard. I also think the people who are very famous in the States with a British accent have a harder time of it. I first really got to know Hugh Laurie with his (admittedly perfect) New Jersey accent, and I didnt really believe his actual British voice at first, just because it was so jarring compared to what I was used to.
I'm American and they all sound fine to me🤔
Yeah I thought this would be funny.
Clara H same
Seriously?! Statham sounded like he didn't even try.
Most, except for Statham's, are recognizably "American," but they don't sound like they're from anywhere in particular, and they're inconsistent. For example, Simon Pegg doesn't say "Las Vegas" quite right.
Are you serious they suck yes they do sound somewhat American but its like they can't sustain it for long
I'd say one of the best actors that can fake an American accent is Hugh Jackman. Dude is talented.
Id take liam off the list, but i agree with the rest
+batmannotahero does liam neeson do American accents? I feel like he always stays with his irish accent.
Idris Alba, CHUCK BASS I had no idea he was even British til I finished the series
+Clara's Universe yeah I'd say Idris elba and Christian Bale have the best American accents
charlie cox in daredevil has one of the best american accents by a brit
@1:23 Kirsten Dunst must have been laughing for really at how bad the accent was.
LEAVE MY BOY EWAN ALONE, HE'S DOING HIS BEST
English accents by Americans are even worse.
I agree.
very true
Just be lucky you're not Australian.
Lol this!
As a Kiwi, I feel your pain. According to Americans we sound the same
Can we have a top 1000 bad non American accents, by American actors?
There's already a thousand
My favorite part is when they try to speak different languages. Like in x men days of future past, katniss tried to speak vietnamese. I'm not even vietnamese and it just sounded tragic
+Albert Velasquez Jennifer Lawrence. Not Katniss
....i think he was joking, since she plays Katniss in another movie
I'm Vietnamese and I though she speaks Lao or Thai. You're right, it's tragic =))
The problem is you've picked really well known voices in the acting world so you naturally hear their original voice and accent no matter what accent they're doing.
Top 18000 worst watchmojo videos next please?
As someone born and raised in the U.S.A., they were actually okay for the most part. If I met any Americans speaking like them, I wouldn't think twice. I admit 6, 4, and 3 were kind of iffy with a few slips here and there, but they were only noticeable because you pointed them out. #1 was the only one that was horrible. The rest are just fine. I have no qualms of the actors' performances.
I agree there's so many accents within the USA suck as a southern accent there's nothing really off about them having a slightly different tone or sound
I assume you meant such and not suck.. cause our accents are lovely in the south :)
Daken K Exactly. Some of them could have easily passed as Southern or Northeastern.
I agree. Some were really bad but I've heard a lot worse accents (see my comments on Keanu Reeves)
***** Me too! I laugh at Keanu's acting but I really like the guy. I think certain actors just have an aura that makes them more watchable on screen.
Lennie James doesn't have that bad of a southern accent. I was surprised to even see him on the list. Saying his accent gets worse during dramatic moments isn't really a bad thing, when in stressful situations my accent gets worse too. Not every person from the south talks the same so there isn't really a set tone he should have, he does really good in his role.
Yeah I'm from the south and I just finished watching TWD after a 2 week binge and I thought he was one of the best characters on the show so I looked him up... I was suprised to find out he wasn't american. I'm a filthy Texan too which is saying a lot.
If his accent isn't good then my "american accent" is trash lol.
Mike Hawk I've seen some other movies he's played in, he did a good job. From Mississippi
I am born and raised in the south, and I had no idea that Lennie James wasn't from the US until I looked him up. He actually has a great southern accent, especially when he's supposed to be from the Georgia/Alabama region of the south. I've lived in Georgia all my life, and I hear men talk like him all the time. He really, really doesn't deserve to be on this list.
Now...Andrew Lincoln and Lauren Cohan, on the other hand... :/
The Departed was centered in South Boston, the Irish center of Boston and there are a ton recent of Irish emigres in Boston. Makes sense if Nicholson's henchman Ray 'Winstone doesn't sound like a native American in the departed.
Ewan McGregor's accent in Fargo was good