Brits do (Bad) American Accents all the time!
So whats the problem here with the inverse???
shareCould you give an example of a Brit doing a "bad" American accent in a movie? I can't think of anyone that I'd call bad.
Kate Winslet in Titanic (good job)
Vivien Leigh in Gone with The Wind (good job)
any others??
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Brits doing American accents tend to be pretty obvious to me because they all use the same slow, nasal, almost too careful way of speaking that I really have never heard anywhere in actual use in America. Not all British people mind you, but they're out there.
Tom Wilkinson in "Batman" Begins sounded very cartoonish. The British playing Americans in the Dr. Who episode "Daleks in Manhatten" were so horrible it was like they were auditioning for a community theater production of "Little Shop of Horrors". Although Gary Oldman is generally very good, in "The Dark Knight" he was all over the place.
Rachel Weisz in "Runaway Jury" didn't convince me. The Scots Ewan McGregor, James Macavoy and Gerard Butler are simply horrible. Dominic West is generally very good but stunk in "The Punisher" along with all the other Brits and their strange imitations of American accents. Although Punisher was just bad to begin with lol. Kate Winslet's "Revolutionary Road" accent sounds very off to me. Richard E. Grant's attempt in "Penelope" was pretty bad.
And there are a lot who aren't horrible, but the accent is just simply...strange, like the practiced voice news reporters use. Hugh Laurie and Emily Blunt sound like that to me. I'm sorry if I offended fans of any of these actors because I love them all, it's just how I hear it.
Keira Knightley in The Jacket. Sometimes it was good but she lost it quite a few times. Andrew Lee Potts in 1408 (Sorry Andrew!).
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