Bizarre accents

[Skeptisk]

Currently watching Rebel Moon.

Charlie Hunnan, putting on a really bad Irish accent (I think it is Irish!) WTAF. Why? The character he is playing is not Irish (it being set in a completely different universe), so why would the director ask (or allow) an actor to put on an Irish accent? Especially when he can’t do it! Bizarre.

Any other examples?

Apart from Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins. At least there was a reason for him attempting a cockney accent.

[Nickp82]

Don Cheadle, Ocean’s Eleven

[Scabutz]

Nickp82 said:

Don Cheadle, Ocean’s Eleven

I read he was really embarrassed by it and wanted to phase it out on the layer films but the studio wouldn't let him

[nicanary]

Anthony Hopkins in The World's Fastest Indian. A Kiwi with a West Country accent?

[Zarco]

Susie Wollf.

[President Merkin]

De Niro in Ronin. What colour is the boat house in Heyyyeefud? U wot M8?

Sean Connery in everything not Bond but especially as a Russian submarine commander. Tennish? I don't even have my racquet.

Stephen Graham as a Cockney gangster in Snatch. Excruciating.

[swisstoni]

I didn’t find Dick Van Dyke’s cockney accent objectionable. It was quite a pleasing result if well wide if the mark.

The same could not be said for Donald Sutherland’s oirish rascal in The Eagle Has Landed.

[james6546]

Karl Urbans “British” accent in The Boys. The only reason I knew it was supposed to be British was he kept referring to tea!

[croyde]

james6546 said:

Karl Urbans “British” accent in The Boys. The only reason I knew it was supposed to be British was he kept referring to tea!

And using the W word

[Driveline Shunt]

President Merkin said:

De Niro in Ronin. What colour is the boat house in Heyyyeefud? U wot M8?

Sean Connery in everything not Bond but especially as a Russian submarine commander. Tennish? I don't even have my racquet.

Stephen Graham as a Cockney gangster in Snatch. Excruciating.

Also in Ronin: Jonathan Pryce's Oirish accent. Deirdre pronounced Dardra? Painful. I'm sure De Niro looking like he's sat on a thistle when driving has been mentioned, if off topic. Natasha McElhone tho..

[daqinggregg]

Brad Pitt, who was a big fan of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), approached director Guy Ritchie and asked for a role in this film. When Ritchie found Pitt couldn't master a London accent, he gave him the role of Mickey the Gypsy.

IMDb

[shambolic]

Skeptisk said:

Currently watching Rebel Moon.

Charlie Hunnan, putting on a really bad Irish accent (I think it is Irish!) WTAF. Why? The character he is playing is not Irish (it being set in a completely different universe), so why would the director ask (or allow) an actor to put on an Irish accent? Especially when he can’t do it! Bizarre.

Any other examples?

Apart from Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins. At least there was a reason for him attempting a cockney accent.

The Charlie Hunnan thing I mentioned to the missus. It was in nearly every county in Ireland and Belfast via Mumbai at one point. He’s a Geordie isn’t he?

[Smollet]

Sean Connery. Oh hang on he only had one

Edited by Smollet on Monday 1st January 09:24

[Hub]

Watched the recent Netflix mini series 'All the light we cannot see' and Mark Ruffalo has a distractingly strange accent which I think was meant to be British, but isn't.

[eharding]

Not an accent per se, but I do love Lucy Worsley's rhotacism. She and her team are surely having a giggle when coming up with programme titles such as "Empire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia" (featuring episodes "The Road to Revolution" and "Age of Extremes"), "Suffragettes" and "Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding".

[CT05 Nose Cone]

Tango & cash has possibly the worst attempt at a British accent in the history of cinema

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVAVuuRSBIc

[MC Bodge]

nicanary said:

Anthony Hopkins in The World's Fastest Indian. A Kiwi with a West Country accent?

He apparently did adopt a reasonably good early 20th century NZ accent (and a Kiwi friend of mine told me that people in the southern parts of the South Island do sound more English)

https://www.flicks.co.nz/features/an-expert-analys...

[WinkleHoff]

Jason Statham's Transporter American accent. He's like a mid Atlantic Phil Mitchell.

[bloomen]

WinkleHoff said:

Jason Statham's Transporter American accent. He's like a mid Atlantic Phil Mitchell.

I was watching Ghosts of Mars the other day. Even something approximating his own accent sounded ludicrously fake and bordering on a speech impediment.

If I were him I'd commission an AI Charles Hawtrey to dub me in everything.

[swisstoni]

bloomen said:

WinkleHoff said:

Jason Statham's Transporter American accent. He's like a mid Atlantic Phil Mitchell.

I was watching Ghosts of Mars the other day. Even something approximating his own accent sounded ludicrously fake and bordering on a speech impediment.

If I were him I'd commission an AI Charles Hawtrey to dub me in everything.

That would be superb.