Easy for actors from the U.K. to imitate American accents, but not vise versa?

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[QUOTE="Overlord93"] As examples show, this thread topic applies to all aspects of the accents within britain. Including english irish and scotish. If you look there has been a link to an irish video, and an example of an english gentleman accent, we are discussing all aspects beacuse what TC stated applies to all regions of the UK and is not specific to one. NO one is saying any one person has a british accent. we are simply referring to british accent(s)Overlord93

edit: muhahaha, they'll never know :twisted:

We don't have Irish accents in Northern Ireland at all....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unGtpBP83as&feature=related

Robert Pattinson does a horrible American accent, at least from what I've heard.

Ireland is not in Britain. We don't have Irish accents in Northern Ireland at all....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unGtpBP83as&feature=relatedMattDistillery

Depends on your definition of a British Accent. If you mean the steroetypical "posh" or "proper" British accent then yeah i'd agree, however if you were to try a Geordie/Scouse/Brummy/Glaswegian accent, then the list of people who could convincingly pull off said accent is gonna be very small.

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[QUOTE="CRS98"]Americans can do British accents as well. You're experience is questionable at best because I don't know your experience.vadicta

Name an American actor who does British accents well?

Any american actor who tries to do an "english accent" sounds annoyingly stereotypical, theres so many regional accents in england, even if we are a tiny country compared to you.

To be fair the American accent...is kinda easy, it being on all the time in Australia I find it by far the easiest to do just don't include Sam Worthington in the conversation i don't know what his problem is with it. I think it's just about being exposed to it, across the world, including the UK, american television and film is shown more then American's could ever believe.

That fella from PS I love You. Gerard somthing doing my accent (Irish) was the most pathetic thing I have ever seen and we don't say '' top o' the morning to ya!'' :evil:

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[QUOTE="angrules23"] Well i hate your accent.angrules23

You don't know what I sound like.

Actually, you might not......we have different accents within the U.S.

The real thing actually is that, when an actor is trained in voice to remove their accent, the accent that they're left with would be an American one, because Americans don't have accents, so it isn't that difficult to master.

The real thing actually is that, when an actor is trained in voice to remove their accent, the accent that they're left with would be an American one, because Americans don't have accents, so it isn't that difficult to master.

vadicta

There is no one America accent. The U.S. has a lot of accents all over the country. SF_KiLLaMaN

Just as there are many different accents across Britain there are many different accents across America. Christian Bale does a fine non-descript American accent, but when he attempts a more southern accent (as in Public Enemies) not so much.

The real thing actually is that, when an actor is trained in voice to remove their accent, the accent that they're left with would be an American one, because Americans don't have accents, so it isn't that difficult to master.

vadicta

I lol'd

Christian Bale can do the American accents really well. Watching his movies, you'd never would've thought he was Welsh.