Which actors and actresses in film and television can pull off the best accents (accents not from their native country or ethnicity) in their performances in film or television? Which actors and actresses should be out and out ashamed of their horrible excuse for a regional or country accent in their respective performances in film or television?
BAD BOSTON ACCENTS:
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30 Rock Recap: Julianne Moore, Welcome to the Bad Boston Accent Hall of Fame!
Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain. I don't know if the famous "A dingo took my baby" quote is in this clip, because I honestly can't bring myself to look. Meryl's Oz accent makes my hair stand on end!
Toni Collette's US accent is pretty convincing (to me, anyway! US folk might disagree.) in her different personalities in The United States Of Tara. Interestingly, this clip includes extracts of an interview with her speaking in her "real" (Oz) accent. :
Mind you...the real Lindy's accent was awful, too...she had that really nails down a blackboard outback Queensland sound.
You have a point there!
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Ticomaya
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Sat 23 Jan, 2010 02:28 am
Dick Van Dyke as Bert in Mary Poppins.
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tsarstepan
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Sat 23 Jan, 2010 10:10 am
@msolga,
msolga wrote:
Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain.
Further adventures of Meryl Streep's Aussie accent...
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briantw
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Sat 23 Jan, 2010 06:12 pm
The famous Lindy Chamberlain quote is "the dingo's got my baby," which, if it's such a famous quote, people would get correct. The quote is in neither of those clips, by the way.
Thanks for telling us the obvious that the famous line is not in the clips.
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lovejoy
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Sat 30 Jan, 2010 08:46 am
All American actors who seem to think that all Brits sound like the queen (no offence to the rock group intended)
Brits who try and do an American accent sound ridiculous, Hugh Laurie is about the best I've heard and he isn't that good
I often wonder how casting directors get it so wrong, it never did any harm to Sean Connery's career to have a scots accent or for that matter Jane Leeves in Frasier who adopts a Mancunian accent which she doesn't have in in real life.
Maybe I'm not the best person to judge this rampant problem in the realm of acting but I don't seem to notice any problem's with Hugh Laurie's faux American accent.
Though, I only seen snippets of Blood Diamond, I find Leo DiCaprio's mongrel European-African accent to be too bizarre to be based in reality.
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Irishk
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Sat 30 Jan, 2010 09:48 am
I think, generally speaking, that the Brits do a better job imitating an American accent than Americans do with the British accent. Except maybe Gwyneth, but then she lives mostly in London, no? Same with Australians.
I had trouble buying Brad Pitt's southern accent in Inglourious Basterds. It was probably ok, but I found it a little distracting.
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