4 British Reacts to Worst British Attempts in Hollywood (Mary Poppins, Charlie Hunnam, Don Cheadle)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- How difficult is it to talk in British Accents?
It seems easy and many hollywood actors have tried but not all were succesful
Today we had our fellow British react to some attempts
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Tom Holland and Henry Cavill for me are the best examples of British with good American accent , sometimes even I think they are from USA , but usually people mimic just for fun or mock games
Christian Bale. People are still surprised when they hear him speak.
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Andrew Lincoln did a pretty good job in The Walking Dead too
@@Albens00 I think Andrew Lincoln’s accent is horrible the Walking Dead.
Tom Holland nailed that subtle Queens accent perfectly. I live in NYC and can confirm.
Dick Van Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins is legendary. It's the gold standard in bad accents. He laughs about it now. Probably the movie was meant mainly for the US, and it was considered good enough.
I had a lot of American neighbours where I grew up, one once asked if he was a Londoner, looked a bit put out when we laughed.
Yes, Van Dyke's is often cited as the worst. Yes, American audience and the year it was made are factors. For more recent performances, don't these productions have accent coaches now?
@@giuliettamassina7787 Yes, they do - please please look up Erik Singer talking about accents and dialects in films, I promise you will not be disappointed! (Just put his name in the TH-cam search bar!)
i diddnt even know he was american🤣
@@giuliettamassina7787 I think they probably have accent coaches but I have noticed sometimes the dialogue and wording will still mainly cater to whatever the target audience is so they can understand and not be distracted by trying to understand.
If you only knew how long we American Southerners have had to bear listening to northern actors do Southern accents. The Hollywood casting directors don't even realize it.
No, they know it... 😉
Interesting video and I'm glad that the majority of the time, they were silent during the fragments. However, the sound of the fragments is sometimes almost inaudible, like the last one.
Drew Barrymore in Ever After: a Cinderella story. The accent was painful to listen to even when I was a kid!
I think the award for worst British accent should go to Dakota Johnson as Fanny in Persuasion. She literally had the thickest LA accent ever, which was an insult to Jane Austen😢
I think that some movie or TV productions do not hire vocal coaches for actors, and bad accents are the result. Also some actors simply do not have a talent for that specific skill. My top example is Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991), where he gave up even trying an English accent about halfway through the movie. I was impressed with Americans, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jennifer Ehle, who played leading British characters, and seemed to pull it off well (at least to these American ears). I think that it is harder when actors have a strong native accent, like Texan (U.S.) Renée Zellweger playing Bridget Jones. Sean Connery, Liam Neeson, and Michael Caine struggle playing any character believably that doesn't have their native accent.
Robert Redford in Out of Africa! No attempt at an accent at all!
Have you seen Erik Singer's videos where he talks about accents in films? He's got at least one specifically on people doing British accents (all his videos are gold!) I believe they're on Vice but just type his name into the TH-cam search bar.
Costner wasn't so much "he gave up" ... but the whole film was re-cut and spliced together from MULTIPLE multiple takes - some of which he was told to "do the accent" and others where he was told not to. In retrospect, it was amazing that they got ANY coherent dialogue/story at all in that picture. (I used to work for the guys who had to splice that all together in post production)
Jennifer Ehle is half British and was partially educated in the UK so her accent is actually perfect. If you’ve ever watched the Camomile Lawn her accent is fantastically (and convincingly) posh. Paltrow’s slips sometimes but it’s definitely one of the best, especially in Sliding Doors. Michelle Williams’ accent is good in Me Without You; has the same problem as Paltrow where she kind of swallows her words but it comes across like that’s part of her character.
Vic Van Dyke has alot to answer for. His awful cockney accent is how alot of Americans think we talk like. On the other hand, not sure how many people would remember Bridget Jone's Dairy but Renee Zellweger's (not sure if i spelt right) accent was spot on.
The first time I saw her was in that movie. I thought she was actually British, and I got a major shock when I heard her speak in her native accent.
As a British person, Renee Zellweger's Bridget Jones accent is close to perfect, she got the regional dialect down as well.
You should have included the butler Niles from The Nanny. He was good enough that many British viewers were convinced he was an authentic Brit instead of some guy from Arkansas, and some even thought he was more authentically British than the actually British male lead of the show.
Hard to argue that British actors generally do a better job with American accents. But there are UK actors that have done questionable Southern accents in American films. I have also seen episodes of Poirot and Miss Marple with a lone American character played by a UK actor, and the actors seem to be trying to mimic how they think an American sounds like based on Hollywood films from the era that those TV shows were set, and it just ends up sounding unnatural.
The UK actors do better generally speaking, but in the past they would do the southern US accent. It's not really one accent though, but generally broader and can be grabbed on to easier.
@@giuliettamassina7787 IMO Brits are generally not good at doing Southern US accents. I think the issue is they mostly pick up US accents watching Hollywood movies which non Southerners tend not to do Southern accents well. Meryl Streep is good. I saw her in a movie where she played someone who was from Appalachian area of Tennessee which is a different Southern accent than like Low Country South Carolina. Brits tend to better at Southern California or Midwest accents. New York/New Jersey is iffy but Tom Holland did a good Boston accent in a movie I saw him in.
For a future video, it would be great if they played broken telephone with phrases or words from different countries, or the country of each player, it would be very funny and fun😂😊
Check out the English muffins on red. 😍
Cheers!
Charlie Hunham IS British! He was born and raised in Newcastle (even appearing in a couple episodes of Byker Grove)...
Yeah but Cockney is one of the hardest British accents to pull off even for non-Cockney Brits.
Probably ranks secodn only to Scouse as the hardest for other Brits to pull off.
The lady in the brown top is quite descriptive. I like listening to her explain. She's great!
I think it’s too much personally
As someone from the north of England, my main source of hearing Cockney as a kid was from Dick van Dyke so I thought he sounded perfect. Oh how wrong I was. Bless him. I love Americans trying British accents - always a great laugh 😄
Even though these are some well-known stinkers, I was waiting for the main treat: Keanu Reeves in Dracula (1993). On top of wooden facial expressions, his accent was laughably bad.
Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is likewise *terrible*.
I didn’t watch but why would Dracula have an English accent? Seems weird. If I remember correctly Keanu is from Canada. I guess the who Commonwealth connection didn’t help.😂
Keanu's English accent is so bad it's not bad because you don't even think it's English
Emily really learned her facial expressions from her granny. that's why I love her
the reason they couldnt hire cockney user in "green street hooligans" is simple: all cockneys were in another similar movie named "football factory"
4:38 get the badge in mate
You really should have used Greg Bryan's Gordie accent in the "Castle" episode "And Justice for All". They would die laughing. 🤣
1) Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
2) Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker's Dracula
As someone from Devon I would love to hear you all try to do our accent lol ♡♡
The girl on the right is from Devon
@@robertwilson3866 it would be fun to see them all do our accent tho lol
@@robertwilson3866 she lost her accent tho
@@DerekDerekDerekDerekDerekDerek Yes but she can still do the accent when she wants to
@@robertwilson3866 what video? Id like to hear it.
Can we get one of them reacting to British accents in musical theater by non-British actors? It would be very interesting
That is what I thought, how come no body has an accent when they sing?
@@alolmedo389 A lot of British singer purposely sound American. However, Paul McCartney, the Monkees and others sound like Brits.
@@alolmedo389 some ppl do have accents. Some r more obvious than others. I don’t sing or do accents but I think sometimes it’s more difficult. I know that I have an interesting mixed accent. I have an accent regardless of what language I’m speaking in
Ana Taylor Joy does a pretty good English accent. She is an American citizen. She was born in Miami,FL.
She was raised in Buenos Aires and London. Her real accent when speaking English is a...strange mix of British and American and maybe a tiny dash of Irish.
Shannon 10/10 doing a British accent imo
America doesn't have quite the variety in accents among native English speakers that the UK does, which is why I think it's often easier for British actors to do fake American accents than it is the other way around. There are less ways to fuck up an American accent
PARENT TRAP!!! in parent trap the British twin had such a bad British accent. It really made me mad.
That movie has been remade several times.
@@anndeecosita3586 the one with Lindsey Lohan or whatever
Dick Van Dyke's attempt at a cockney accent was so horrendously mocked, that the next time he played a Brit, he didn't even bother with an accent.
5:03 Do the people who compiled this not realize that Charlie Hunnam is, in fact, actually British??? He fooled you all in Sons of Anarchy!😂😂😂😂😂
Or the other way around: British doing American accent. For me Gary Oldman does it best.
Who are the really good references when it comes to Americans taking on British accents? From the comments I've gone through there aren't that many. The difficulty is probably that most Brits have at least s tiny straw of a local accent even those that speak Southern English Standard.
Renee Zellweger's accent in Bridget Jones was pretty spot-on. Jennifer Ehle was so good in Pride and Prejudice it was a surprise to find she's not British. There are others, I just can't think of any off the top of my head!
Gwyneth's English accent in Sliding Doors and Emma is probably the best example.
Please make them react to some of the best British accents by non-British actors/actresses.
Agreed! I want that too.
I'm surprised Gillian Anderson isn't ever included in the Americans doing British accents.
The girl on the right looks like one of the bond girls in one of them daniel Craig movies
I’m American and ITA British actors are better in general at doing what people unfortunately call the “generic” American accent. However, I think they tend to be horrible at Southern US accents. While I enjoy his acting, Andrew Lincoln sounds cringe to me in TWD. I was watching a movie called Rust Creek on Netflix. The movie was good but I stopped in the middle to see where the actress was from because her so called Kentucky accent kept dipping in and out. I found it was UK actress Hermoine Corfield. But to their credit most non Southern American actors also suck at at Southern accents. I think the biggest problem is people sound like their trying to do the accents and then it becomes too much. Southern accents are more effortless sounding. Same with the Canadian who plays Maggie on TWD. I sometimes watch the Irish People Try Channel on TH-cam and they do an excellent job at Southern accents. Much better than English people. I’m supposing it’s because a lot of Southern families including my own have Irish ancestors so maybe it’s rooted there.
The reason Dick Van Dyke’s Cockney was so bad is because the person who trained him was character actor J. Pat O’ Malley.
I’m always surprised when I find out that a British actor is playing an American but while it’s usually good I can never determine quite where they’re from…it’s always kind of an undistinguishable regional accent. There was one actor that kept going from a New York accent to a Southern or Texan accent.
Judging by this comment, I'm guessing you're probably American in which case, I'd like to ask how you think Stephen Graham did in Boardwalk Empire. Here in the UK, he's one of our most highly celebrated talents. Undesputably one of the best actors in the business and he's pretty good at imitating various British accents so I'm curious to know what Americans would make of his Al Capone impression.
I've seen a couple of British people do bad US accents. Even i could tell and I'm British. Wish I could remember who now. Usually it's that case of losing the accent on certain words
it would also be cool to hear opinions of the opposite. like chuck bass from gossip girl or Freddie high more doing various American roles.
it is just like in portuguese, portuguese can imitate a brazilian accent easily but brazilians can not imitate portuguese accent
Sotaque português é muito fácil de imitar, um monte de brasileiro consegue
Whare are the Cillian Murphy(Irishman) and Tom Hardy with brummie accent?
Cillian didn't fail at it but I just think he went in maybe a bit too weak. A brummy accent sounds very strong and distinctive whereas he sounded a little too tentative with it in my opinion. Tom Hardy just sounds like Tom Hardy no matter what he's doing. His career has never boasted much versatility but he's got the charisma and he's good at what he does. The character I always find strange is Arthur. Why does he sound cockney? The actor who plays him is in Top Boy too and he has the same cockney accent in that which isn't bad as that show is actually set in London but I imagine he is actually a cockney and just flat out can't do other accents.
It'd be lovely to see your reaction towards some good or great immitations of British accents, like Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, or Gwyneth Paltrow in pretty much every film where she plays a British role.
Paltrow was first time I saw a good British accent from an American in Sliding Doors
As an aussie looking back at this, i really cringe lolll
I really wish they would stop casting Americans who would have to mimic any British accent.
The reverse is, perhaps, more of an issue. Brits playing Yanks.
@@giuliettamassina7787 yeah but they are ,for the most part, excellent at doing an American accent.
@@Dab3stxblasassassin depends on the accent.
In that case Hollywood, Netflix and the rest should stop casting Brits to portray American characters. I’ve noticed even the characters aren’t American per se the British actors tend to deliver their lines with USA accents. Star Wars for example. What’s the point of that?
Why is the term "Geordie" used to refer to just one city's accent in the UK? It refers to a New Castle accent. So why is the term "Geordie" used?
Lots of theories, some more likely than others but none definite. You'll see the list on Wikipedia.
@@michaelmclachlan1650 Thx
The one I know is from a miners' safety lamp invented by George Stevenson. Proper Geordies are from Newcastle & certainly North of the rive Tyne, but people who aren't from the region tend to use it for everyone who is.
@@ethelmini Thanks.
I don't know the reason for this specific example but generally, we have names for the people from a fair few English regions. Scousers are from Liverpool, cockneys are from the east end of London, brummies are from Birmingham etc. I'm sure there probably are historical reasons for these that relate to whatever group of people settled in these areas at the time and their dialects but generally, I don't think you'll find a whole lot of Brits who know the answer.
Is it just me, or is the actor in the thumbnail not in actual video?
Fall in love with the redhead 😍
Yep! Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.
This is why I'm little bit afraid speaking with UK people, coz how I will try to speak properly with right time in my speech, Englishman just will give me 2 of 10 and say : " Ok, you speak english now you need to speak on the UK language ". You could to get C1 in english but you will never be the same like englishman with difficult constructions in their speech. But advantage is they always understand you even if you gonna be mistakes with somewhere. This why I like to speak with US people coz they less official in english language in they daily life, language is enough if you understand each other.
Watching these makes me wonder how my fake British accent is 😆
I always go towards cockney or the Gumby's from Monty python
That is actually the way Charlie hunnam actually talks. So you can’t judge his accent lol. He is English but also grew up in Australia. So it’s really just making fun of the way he speaks, which isn’t right.
We can judge because he's an actor. It is literally his job to pretend to be someone he's not.
He was never ever raised in Australia
Two infamous women to look at: Renee Zellweger in "Bridget Jones's Diary" and Gwyneth Paltrow in "Sliding Doors".
Infamous? Renee's accent was fantastic!
Gwyneth Paltro is annoying in any accent.
How could you miss out Keanu Reeves in Bramstoker's Dracula???
Can you do an Australian version of this
Actual Cockney would have been indecipherable to Americans at the time Marry Poppins was made. At least that was the general thinking. So nobody would have asked Van Dyke to completely shed his American accent.
That ugly mix was precisely what the directors wanted.
That black girl is so beautiful 😍
Australian, an exaggerated
Cockney accent 😄
Rihanna, could you sing Umbrella, please?
One day this channel should get a born and bread scouser on the channel see how that goes or a Glaswegian
Okay, I have an idea - let us check the guys in the areas they are professionals, how do feel about it?
I just love watching lauren❤️
even as an american, i still cringe at those failed accent attempts.
"yeah~"
-lauren 2023
Excellent
"Tempting british accents"? 🤣🤣🤣
loven the british accents ❤
Can we have them doing Korean since they are all living there now?
I bet u guys say two "choo"
Why do British people speaking with American accents sound so natural compared to Americans speaking with a British accent? Americans butcher the British accent....
They should react to Rami Malek and Joe Mazzello's British accent in "Bohemian Rhapsody"
It seems everyone bashes Charlie Hunnam no matter what. Try doing his job, then have something to say?
Charlie Hunnam is british
But not from the part of Britain his character was from, so he was trying an accent that's not his native accent.
Wait, isn't Charlie Hunnam British!?
I’m sure he’s from Newcastle but went to a stage school because he has a southern English accent
Dick Van Dyke really nailed the Britt accent.. see "Mary Poppins"
Edit: lmao they used it as the 1st example
Какие-то люди, что-то говорят.))))) Вроде про акценты...)
Charlie Hunnam is English isn't he?! 🤣🤣
That is why they were so let down.
Also, if Pacific Rim and the first episode of Sons of Anarchy are an indication of his American accent, his American accent is terrible.
@@AT-rr2xw I haven't watched enough of their channel to call them a let down... I was just really surprised that they first of all discredited his actual accent (not slang) and secondly that they didn't know who he is 😂
@@olstykkemaffer They say IN THIS VERY VIDEO that they were let down.
@@AT-rr2xw his American accent in SOA is nowhere near as bad as all the actors who tried to do an Irish accent. Especially the priest who just sounds American and Jimmy who just sounds like a drunk American. I also don't understand why they depicted Ireland as being stuck in the 1960s and it's always night time and always raining.
@@brendanm6921 Perhaps. I just saw the pilot and never looked back.
Emily gives me the vibe of Lana Del Rey 🥵😘
black british cool
Though you guys are British but you use a lot of American words! Especially movie!
For my Canadian ears, all of them speak perfect British English. Actually, I can't distinguish British accents..in fact, most times I cant differ between Australian and British accents....they just sound the same. Maybe because we don't get exposed to those accents much.
No way a Scottish accent and a London accent sound the same to you lol. You might need to get your ears checked
@@ovaloctopus8 Of course, we can identify any accent that is not North American. But, it can be hard to differ which accent it is...especially because we do not get exposed to different accents that often.
@@ovaloctopus8 then throw in a Scouse accent and a Brighton accent 😅
Who cares.
Three British people, one British inhabitant..
Don't they all live in Korea?
Who are you referring to?
Hey, it's not Lauren's fault she's from the north 😆
Why don't we take it further back, 3 Anglo-Saxo-Germans and 1 British inhabitant.
@@Morgue12free Exactly
You know whats cringe is British rap
Piss off. Plan B, Pro Green, MIA, Little Simz, Kano etc. America has the best early hip hop with guys like Grandmaster Flash And The Furious Five or Mobb Deep but we have the best modern rappers.
Clear of mumble jumble rap 😂😂