English Actors Doing American Accents... oh no. Not again.

Ooff. Its BAD when at the VERY START you hear an English Actor over TRYING to do an American accent... It always sounds so FAKE. They OVER emphasise certain words, nasally, and you can always HEAR the English accent come through, occasionally, totally destroying the credibility of the character. Is Dr. Strange really a Brit??? Pretending to be American? Nope... He's SUPPOSED to be American. He just SOUNDS so FAKE. Why couldn't they find an Italian American to play Strange? He LOOKS Italian American in the comics. (or come up with a back story, where he was raised by Brits. That would be a good explanation for the "weird", unconvincing, nasal, "eagsent". (accent))

You also hear it with Dr. House, and it destroyed that series for some of us. Glad others don't mind it. You see, those who KNOW Hugh Laurie from his other stuff, where he's using his normal English accent, will feel he sounds like that over the top parody they did of American Businessmen, in "A Bit of Fry and Laurie". So over emphatic, esp. since it was supposed to be mocking / making fun of Americans. Dr. House seems like an extended sketch of him parodying / making fun of the American accent. (as he was) Great that he had success with it (season after season), but some of us couldn't & can't watch it. That put-on over emphatic nasal accent always kills it's credibility.

*ahem* I still watched it 3 times though (so far). ;-)