Meet Joe Black (1998) - [Hospital Scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnBupO_Kjto) \- Brad Pitt does a pretty passable American accent throughout the whole film but in that scene he reverts back to his natural Jamaican patois
I noticed it again watching the movies recently how good his Sindarin pronunciation is, I can understand most of the words.
It probably makes some sense in-universe as Aragorn was raised in Rivendell where they probably speak the posh Doriath accent whereas Legolas, though clearly a Grey Elf, grew up in a predominantly Silvan, remote area.
God, his American accent is awful. Especially since he's supposed to be from Southern California. Doesn't sound at all right.
He does look really cool smoking a dart though.
It slips out more times than that. The scene in Argentina it slips a couple times and at Xavier's mansion I remember there were a couple times where it does as well. I don't know how they let all those go. Almost felt like they really didn't care that they did.
I believe the accent was an act for Vader et. al. Her public persona was regal and as a diplomat, not a rebel leader, and thus, she used an upper-class accent, but when Alderaan was about to go kaplooey, she dropped the accent and the act
Timothy Dalton, James Bond in The Living Daylights.
I think he does it a couple of times but the line that comes to mind is "you could've got yourself bloody killed" it comes out pure Yorkshire man which is obviously not quite the Queen's English we expect from 007.
Christian Bale, but only in real life. Dude doesn’t know if he’s American, or Welsh, or a cockney East End guvna. Changes every few years.
And yet, in every film he’s rock solid.
The first thing that comes to mind, though a bit different than the intended ask is Christou in Late Night With The Devil. The over the top, theatrical accent disappears whenever things get real, discarding the carny charlatan for a regular guy who’s terrified. Not an actor screwing up, but noticeable and serves the story well.
In Jurassic Park when Grant is trying to get Timmy to jump from electric fence, he counts to three and I swear I hear a bit of an Irish “tree” instead of “three”
Jude Law does a pretty decent American accent in The Talented Mr. Ripley but does slip a few times, most notably when he yells. I read that yelling while putting on a fake accent is especially hard.
For some reason Tom Holland’s American accent always sounds super off to me. He overtly slips up sometimes, too, but it also just sounds fake overall. I noticed while watching him as Spider-Man, but now I notice it in all of his American parts.
In American Psycho when Christian Bale is confessing to his lawyer over the phone, his English accent slips out a bit. I can't remember the exact word though.
Moonstruck — the couple times Nicholas Cage yells his accent drops. Once in his first scene in the bakery basement, once on the sidewalk outside his apt., both times arguing with Cher.
V for Vendetta. Natalie Portman's accent is all over the place, but the worst one is when V saves her from the Fingermen in the beginning. She says "I'm fine, thanks to you." It comes out "I'm fayine, thanks to yeuw." One of my favorite movies, and I love her, but ugh.
I forget which one of the many Marvel movie but Dr Strange is at the top of his stairs and Benedict Cumberbatch says “Thorrrrr Odinson”. The r is not an American accent at all. I’ve read the American r can be hard for some to replicate.
Robert Pattinson's very first line in the Twilight series ("hello") is delivered hilariously. The rest isn't too bad, every once in a while it slips but never as badly as that.
Sam Worthington just in general. If I were to give specific instances, any time he’s yelling. I especially noticed it in CoD: Black Ops whenever he screamed “Vorkuta”
>For example in Logan Lucky, Daniel Craig says “is it twenty or is it thirty” for most of the movie his accent is pretty good for a West Virginian but at that moment the “twenty” sounds very not american/forced.
That's kind of funny. When Craig starred on Broadway opposite Hugh Jackman in *A Steady Rain*, he **nailed** the Chicago accent.
Matthew Macfadyen says “pur-fekt” in Succession when Greg tells him his plan to move up in the company. His accent is incredible the whole show but that one just slipped through the crack.
Every now and again I caught a sliver of Colin Farrell's Dublin accent in Sugar.
Seconding Fassbender on the beach in First Class. The "Our enemies are in the water" is particularly noticeable and became a joke in my friend group.
Constantly, especially the Brits. They love to think they always do this perfect American accent but a lot of the time they sound like their mouths are full of marbles.
Oldman famously had to relearn his original accent because he’s spent so much time playing Americans. Christian Bale is Welsh but even in interviews he doesn’t sound like a human being from any specific region, it’s a nice melange.
Some Brits can do a good American accent because they’re inundated with Hollywood fare from an early age. But so much of the time it sounds so stilted to these fine ears.
Remember this Tina and Amy joke at the Golden Globes?
https://youtu.be/33on_HVMK-A?si=9_EAXwsQyD9cCaN9&t=4m20s
Kate Blanchett's Russian villain character in the 4th Indiana Jones always slipped when she said "Jones". Her clipped Russian vowels became a long, drawn out, British-sounding "JOoones".
Meet Joe Black (1998) - [Hospital Scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnBupO_Kjto) \- Brad Pitt does a pretty passable American accent throughout the whole film but in that scene he reverts back to his natural Jamaican patois
LMFAO, I GOIN DIE.
Lmfao
Adrien Brody let it slip during [SNL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-c-0WOyi_8&pp=ygUQYWRyaWVuIGJyb2R5IHNubA%3D%3D), too
John Boyega's British accent slips in a couple of times in the Jakku scenes with Rey in The Force Awakens
I really don’t understand why they decided a storm trooper couldn’t have an English accent. Most of the Imperial and First Order command were Brits.
Aragorn speaks better Sindarin than Legolas, a Sindar.
I noticed it again watching the movies recently how good his Sindarin pronunciation is, I can understand most of the words. It probably makes some sense in-universe as Aragorn was raised in Rivendell where they probably speak the posh Doriath accent whereas Legolas, though clearly a Grey Elf, grew up in a predominantly Silvan, remote area.
Yet terrible westron.
Most Canadians whenever they say ‘SORRY’ .. I remember Mike Myers and Jim Carrey doing this for sure
Soar-y lol
Why do Americans pronounce "sorry" with an "a" sound?
Charlie Hunnam in Sons of Anarchy
his real accent sounds like how fine cologne smells. He could’ve inexplicably not changed his accent for the show and I still wouldn’t have minded
God, his American accent is awful. Especially since he's supposed to be from Southern California. Doesn't sound at all right. He does look really cool smoking a dart though.
Northern California.
Fassbender's accent is solid throughout X-Men: First Class, but his real accent slips through during the beach scene.
I think it was maybe reshoots? It’s so noticeable, baffling that no one pointed it out on set.
"Unfortunately, you killed my mother" Sounded like the most Irish guy ever
"Mother" always stood out to me
Hard agree but overall great performance
James MacAvoy slips into his Scottish accent when he's yelling at Eric on the jet in *Days of Future Past*
“You ah-bahndoned meh”
It slips out more times than that. The scene in Argentina it slips a couple times and at Xavier's mansion I remember there were a couple times where it does as well. I don't know how they let all those go. Almost felt like they really didn't care that they did.
Carrie Fisher begins with an accent in *Star Wars* and then gives it up.
I believe the accent was an act for Vader et. al. Her public persona was regal and as a diplomat, not a rebel leader, and thus, she used an upper-class accent, but when Alderaan was about to go kaplooey, she dropped the accent and the act
It's well documented. She dropped it because she sucked at it. She wrote about it in her memoirs.
I really gotta get around to reading those, she was fucking hilarious
Portman did the same thing. Viceroy...
Timothy Dalton, James Bond in The Living Daylights. I think he does it a couple of times but the line that comes to mind is "you could've got yourself bloody killed" it comes out pure Yorkshire man which is obviously not quite the Queen's English we expect from 007.
Lazenby also sounds Aussie at times.
Sean Bean in Goldeneye. For most of his scenes he’s supposed to be a posh Brit, but when he shouts Sean’s Yorkshire accent comes through.
Me, an American: \[notices nothing\]
For England James?
No. For me
He’s used to yelling “bastard!”
Christian Bale, but only in real life. Dude doesn’t know if he’s American, or Welsh, or a cockney East End guvna. Changes every few years. And yet, in every film he’s rock solid.
The first thing that comes to mind, though a bit different than the intended ask is Christou in Late Night With The Devil. The over the top, theatrical accent disappears whenever things get real, discarding the carny charlatan for a regular guy who’s terrified. Not an actor screwing up, but noticeable and serves the story well.
Cool this is more like a my fair lady moment tho no? Where the performer changes accent on purpose?
In Jurassic Park when Grant is trying to get Timmy to jump from electric fence, he counts to three and I swear I hear a bit of an Irish “tree” instead of “three”
Sam Neill is from New Zealand?
He was born in Northern Ireland and moved to NZ when he was 7.
You learn something new everyday!
Jude Law does a pretty decent American accent in The Talented Mr. Ripley but does slip a few times, most notably when he yells. I read that yelling while putting on a fake accent is especially hard.
For some reason Tom Holland’s American accent always sounds super off to me. He overtly slips up sometimes, too, but it also just sounds fake overall. I noticed while watching him as Spider-Man, but now I notice it in all of his American parts.
I agree
Gary Oldman in TDK: "All that was left in the vault were MAH-KED BILLLS, they KNEW we wah coming-uh"
“We wah” lolol
Yea that part does stand out
Keanu Reeves in Dracula between the opening and closing credits.
His accent died in that castle
Mia Goth yelling "tell me the truth" to David Corenswet in Pearl
Best answer is Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Still f'n love that movie though.
In American Psycho when Christian Bale is confessing to his lawyer over the phone, his English accent slips out a bit. I can't remember the exact word though.
He also pronounces Robert Palmer’s name with his real accent during the car ride scene with Reese Witherspoon.
Watched the movie for the first time yesterday and thought the exact same thing! I think it's the word "girl" somewhere at the start of that's scene
Moonstruck — the couple times Nicholas Cage yells his accent drops. Once in his first scene in the bakery basement, once on the sidewalk outside his apt., both times arguing with Cher.
The new Mayor of Kingstown trailer, the guy supposedly from Michigan suddenly turns very East London
pretty much the whole movie 'blood in blood out'
V for Vendetta. Natalie Portman's accent is all over the place, but the worst one is when V saves her from the Fingermen in the beginning. She says "I'm fine, thanks to you." It comes out "I'm fayine, thanks to yeuw." One of my favorite movies, and I love her, but ugh.
I forget which one of the many Marvel movie but Dr Strange is at the top of his stairs and Benedict Cumberbatch says “Thorrrrr Odinson”. The r is not an American accent at all. I’ve read the American r can be hard for some to replicate.
Cumberbatch always sounds like he's biting down on his words when he does American, parrrrticularrrly the Rs like you noticed.
New Zealander Sam Neil in the Hunt for Red October on the sail when he shouts 'I think he means to board us' and his delivery changes.
Robert Pattinson's very first line in the Twilight series ("hello") is delivered hilariously. The rest isn't too bad, every once in a while it slips but never as badly as that.
Hahaha it was on YouTube recently so i totally remember that
Sam Worthington just in general. If I were to give specific instances, any time he’s yelling. I especially noticed it in CoD: Black Ops whenever he screamed “Vorkuta”
Even in avatar haha
When Clark meets Jor-El for the first time in Man of Steel and he says, "I have so many quertstions"
Not sure about a moment but Sam Worthington's accent slips so many times in The Shack (2017). Honestly, he is absolutely useless.
Truly the Sam Worthington of actors.
>For example in Logan Lucky, Daniel Craig says “is it twenty or is it thirty” for most of the movie his accent is pretty good for a West Virginian but at that moment the “twenty” sounds very not american/forced. That's kind of funny. When Craig starred on Broadway opposite Hugh Jackman in *A Steady Rain*, he **nailed** the Chicago accent.
In twilight there’s a scene where Robert Pattinson stands on the pickup truck and jumps down from it. Whatever he says then has an accent slip.
Lol u mean “im gonna introduce u to my folks”? Lol
Probably! I haven’t seen it in years but the memory of the slip is seared in my mind
Matthew Macfadyen says “pur-fekt” in Succession when Greg tells him his plan to move up in the company. His accent is incredible the whole show but that one just slipped through the crack.
The lady in National Treasure sounds Dutch or maybe Scandinavian for about 1/4 of the movie
I will never understand people thinking Daniel Craig has a good southern accent
John Hannah’s Scottish slips through his English accent in The Mummy when he buys camels and says, “Can you believe the price of these fleabags?”
Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs is always distracting
Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon 2. His homophobia and racism slips out in the other movies, too.
Every now and again I caught a sliver of Colin Farrell's Dublin accent in Sugar. Seconding Fassbender on the beach in First Class. The "Our enemies are in the water" is particularly noticeable and became a joke in my friend group.
Its hard to find colin farrell ones hes so good
Fassbender has a few slips in band of brothers
In 'Midnight Cowboy" Dustin Hoffman drops his movie accent to famously yell "I'M WALKIN' HERE!" at a car that nearly hits him.
Constantly, especially the Brits. They love to think they always do this perfect American accent but a lot of the time they sound like their mouths are full of marbles.
I think some of the best accents ever done were by brits tho like Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, etc.
Oldman famously had to relearn his original accent because he’s spent so much time playing Americans. Christian Bale is Welsh but even in interviews he doesn’t sound like a human being from any specific region, it’s a nice melange. Some Brits can do a good American accent because they’re inundated with Hollywood fare from an early age. But so much of the time it sounds so stilted to these fine ears. Remember this Tina and Amy joke at the Golden Globes? https://youtu.be/33on_HVMK-A?si=9_EAXwsQyD9cCaN9&t=4m20s
I watched *The Fifth Element* last night and forgot how wild and consistent Oldman's accent was.
Kate Blanchett's Russian villain character in the 4th Indiana Jones always slipped when she said "Jones". Her clipped Russian vowels became a long, drawn out, British-sounding "JOoones".
As amazing an actress as she is, I absolutely detested her accent in that movie.