Hugh sounds fabulous to me (here in Canada)no matter what he is playing, and I know there has not yet been a UK release, but is Jackman's accent as an upper-class Londoner credible?
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hugh's parents are english
shareexcellent point, diogosheep! I'd forgetten that. And, now that I think of it, his American accents as Wolverine and in Someone Like You and Swordfish are all quite good, even without hearing them throughout his childhood.
shareWell if you'd like to hear some more of his talent - you should see 'Paperback Hero' where he is as Aussie as they come! He plays an outback truckie and I have to say it is one of my favourite HJ movies. I guess I am a little biased, as it is one of his great Aussie offerings! He truly is one of Australia's greatest exports. He is obviously a great dad and a loving husband, and every interview I have seen of his, he is so natural and unassuming. He really is an amazing actor and he is still happy to call Australia home, which endears him to me, all the more.
shareI thought his accent in Swordfish wasn't that believable. I kept hearing twinges of his Australian accent. Eh. It was darling, nontheless.
shareI thought Jackman's accent in this film was on the money...believable without sounding corny or affected.
shareI am English and I thought Hugh was fantastic at the accent, not only did he sound English, he sounded very upper class.
shareHe was spot on.
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I think Hugh Jackman is becoming one of my favourite actors. I just watched Swoop again and his accent is perfect. I find it almost impossible to believe he is also Wolverine (in X Men) when watching him in this movie - the sign of a great actor.
In my dreams I look like Hugh Jackman and have a character like Johnny Depp. Dreams are nice.
I definitely noticed the Australian coming out in a few lines, like when he is walking outside in the garden at the beginning.
shareI agree. I'm Australian and just thought he sounded like an Austarlian to me with a slight toffy accent.
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Some parts were definatly Aussie, but other than those few parts he was believable.
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Watching it now on BBC2 as I type and was expecting people to slate the casting of Hugh as a Brit aristocrat.
Much as I admire him as an actor - particularly in Prestige and The Fountain - he seemed far from convincing here.
The cadence of his speech was all wrong so that he sounded like an Aussie impersonating an American trying to do an English accent. Far too exaggerated to be credible, I'm afraid. You only need listen to the authentic accents among the rest of the cast to hear that Hugh sticks out like a sore thumb. But then, I'm pretty picky, I always think Brits attempting American accents are terrible and yet no one else seems to notice eg Kate Winslet, Kate Beckinsale, Ewan McGregor. The only one who really cuts it is Bale (but then he's gone so method, he's totally forgotten who he is or where he's from in any case.) Right now, he probably thinks he has to save the future of mankind from SkyNet even as he's pushing a trolley round the supermarket.
AS an Englishman born and bred, who has lived and worked in the States, New Zealand and several other countries and am now an Australian, I can vouch for his English accent as being spot on. Anyone who picks on his accent has probably their own agenda, probably jealous of his good looks and acting ability. There is no sign of an 'Australian' accent in his 'Scoop' work. I would also like to add that the 'Australian Accent' as such is so variable and range from very distinct and nasal ocker to as 'English' sounding as one would find in England. Even English accents differ so much from place to place. To sum-up I would like to say Peter Lyman you speak beautifully.
shareBrit currently living in Australia, here.
I thought his accent was utter rubbish. It was so obviously fake and overdone.
I like Jackman, but he was not great in this role. To be fair, it didn't help that he had the talentless SJ to work opposite. I don't know what Allen sees in her...apart from the obvious, of course
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Overall, I thought his accent was decent but his Aussie accent certainly made an appearance from time to time.
shareIf you enjoyed listening to him speak with an English accent in this movie, I think you will enjoy Kate and Leopold as well. That is the movie that I became smitten with Hugh Jackman. He played the role of Leopold so incredibly well. :)
shareI went to school and grew up in England in the 1950s and I found Jackman's accent very convincing. Had he been younger, howeeve, the in-fashion accent would have been deliberately downmarket i.e Home Counties suburban (rather than Oxford "hot roast potato in the mouth" sort) like the acents of Princess Diana's sons and Scarlett's English girl friends. I am also Canadian and found that English people tend to exaggerate and change their accents when abroad. I couldn't believe the number of PG Woodehouse types I met during 17 years in Bahrain where British people live a very colonial style life mostly inside compound ghettos or goblig raost beef an Yorkshire pudidng at the British Club. One would be hard put to meet such living caricatures in modern England itself- they were almost the Hollywood stereotype British cardboard cutouts. By the way I thought Scarlett did a very good imitation of a naive but quicl to learn Young American abroad and Woody acted the part of a Brooklyn Jew to a tee(LOL). By the way Woody is also a fantastic Saxophonist.
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