Josh Harnett's British accent

yes, SO uttery appauling, which sucks coz hes hot

I've just seen this film for the first time, and I feel as a Keighley lad born and bred I must pass comment on Josh Harnett's accent.
I didn't know, until I read this thread, that Josh Harnett was an American. I thought he was a Geordie doing a terrible Yorkshire accent!
However, give the lad some credit, at least he tried, his efforts were no better or worse (okay, maybe worse) than the rest of the cast. Their attempts at a Yorkshire accent were equally bad, except of course Warren Clarkes.
I enjoyed the film, not the best I've seen, but still okay. Some characters sounded more Lancastrian than Yorkshire, and I didn't recognise any of the exterior shots which leads me to beleive it wasn't filmed in the noble town of Keighley.
Good to see Peter Kay in there, perhaps this is where he got the idea for a series set in a Northen working mens club.
Overall a good film, as accents go there are many worse (Sean Connery's Irish accent in The Untouchables for one, and his Russian one in the Hunt For Red October for another). Americans have difficulty (as do other natonalities) understanding my Yorkshire accent they always think I am either from South Africa or Australia!!!!!!!! However, I have to admit that coming from Keighley my accent is terrible, and my grasp of the Queens English and grammar is not what she would expect of her subjects tha knows!


E by gum! N' all that wen tha'a supped five pints o' stella! Who'd a' thought it?

Sorry to say that I'm from Dublin and found Kate Hudson's accent in About Adam pretty good. Her and Cate Blanchett in Veronica Gueran did very convincing Dublin accents.

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David Thewlis' awful attempt at an American accent in an awful attempt at a film called Timeline.

Love love *love* David Thewlis as an actor, but I just about died laughing the two times I've seen that film.

I've just seen Blow Dry few days ago... and even though English isn't my first language I've noticed Josh Hartnett's awful accent... It was so bad... It ruined the film for me... why couldn't they cast a British guy in this film?! Or at least someone with more talent?

For example I think Renee Zellweger's accent in Bridget Jones Diary was really good... well at least it seemed good to me... as I am not from English speaking country, so I might be wrong. :)

There have been some truely terrible accents that people have claimed to have been amazing - Bela in Supernatural is terrible.

I have to say that the accent is rather bad. But i've heard attempts that are just as bad for english accents. it has to be said that yorkshire is a very difficult accent to do. manc would have been easier, but hey he tried and most people wouldn't have.

Abysmally bad accent... why do they bother? How do they think they can get away with it? Movie-makers take so much trouble with everything else but think they can let this kind of thing slip through... it's bizarre.

The Rachael Leigh Cook character was happily American in the film... why didn't they just change the plot and say Rickman and took his son to the US after his wife left him and (in the style of a Homer J Simpson script) they had to return to the UK at that time for some reason. That would explain his American accent.

Worst accent I've heard recently was Charlie Hunnam in Green Street (aka Hooligans). It was an appalling attempt at Cockney (possibly the easiest British accent to mimic). I assumed he was American, but he's from Newcastle, England! These people should be banned from acting. (They also used a US train whistle in that film at a British train station - this was just unbelievably stupid)...

I'm glad i'm not the only one. I'm tone deaf, so usually don't pick up on "bad" accents unless they are HORRIFIC. This was simply horrific! I can't help but laugh every time he tries to say "cutting"