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Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
#25re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/2/08 at 9:08pmRachel Griffith's accent slips out every once in a while. The guy who plays Kevin though, and I had absolutely no idea he was British.
mauriposa
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/14/05
#26re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/2/08 at 9:30pmI had NO IDEA Anna Friel wasn't American. I just had to look up interviews on YT to hear her real voice. Weird.
#27re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/2/08 at 11:38pm
Matthew Rhys (the guy who plays Kevin Walker) is indeed Welsh. And actually from time to time, I hear a little something something coming out, but that's AFTER I learned where he is from, before that, I could have sworn he was American.
Kate Winslet is another great gal at accents. I love her American accent.
#28re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 12:14am
If you've ever seen the Annette Benning and Jeremy Irons movie "Being Julia", the actor, Shaun Evans, who plays Tom, the American, is actually Scottish.
And if I hadn't watched the "making of" feature on the DVD, I would never have known. His accent was that good.
BroomstickBoy
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#29re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 12:46amGwyneth Paltrow does about as much of a convincing British accent as Madonna. Her "British" accent is terrible.
#30re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 12:58amBob Hoskins in 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit'.
#31re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 1:06am
Gwyneth Paltrow does about as much of a convincing British accent as Madonna. Her "British" accent is terrible.
Most things GP does are pretty unconvincing. I mean, Proof anyone?
Chrysanthemum62001
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
#32re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 1:40am
Someone has already mentioned all four, but they really did all fool me!
Hugh Laurie
Alan Tudyk
Toni Colette
James Marsters
#33re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 5:41am
Actually, I tell you who has fooled me; David Tennant. I knew he was Scottish, but it still comes as a surprise to hear him speak in a Scottish accent whenever he's being himself.
Also, I was convinced for ages that John Barrowman was putting on a bad American accent; turns out it's at least semi-natural. Which surprised me. O_O
#34re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 12:58pm
Oh, I forgot...
Emily Blunt did a pretty great American accent in "Dan in Real Life". There was one phrase somewhere that was a little off (something minor, like "thank you" or something), but other than that it was great.
#35re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 1:08pm
Hugh Laurie and Anna Friel have obviously been mentioned.
What really gets me with Hugh, though, was that in one episode that I watched recently, he does a perfect Portuguese accent THROUGH his American accent. I don't even know how that's possible.
#36re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 1:13pm
Heath in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Maggie in SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
Vivien in GWTW and STREETCAR
#37re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 2:00pm
Turning the traffic around, Renee Zellweger in Bridget Jones does the best British accent I've heard by an American. Infact she gives the best all-round performance of a Brit by an American that I've seen.
And Liza Minelli could make Dick Van Dyke and Patti Lupone blush by doing a good East London accent for the "Elsie" lines in Cabaret during her current UK tour.
#38re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 2:22pm
What really gets me with Hugh, though, was that in one episode that I watched recently, he does a perfect Portuguese accent THROUGH his American accent. I don't even know how that's possible.
That always shocks me. I don't speak German, but I have read articles that explain how Meryl Streep's German in SOPHIE'S CHOICE (the scenes in the concentration camp) was spoken with a Polish accent! I think that's kind of fascinating.
BroomstickBoy
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/21/04
#39re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 3:03pmGavin Creel did a wonderful Cockney accent that fooled even most Brits during his stint in Mary Poppins.
#40re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 3:28pmNot an actor, but when I first heard the Spice Girls, I didn't know they were British. And no, I did not figure that out from seeing "Spice World." LOL!
#41re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 4:26pm
Johnny Depp
I honestly thought he was British for the longest time...
#42re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 4:45pm
Not that I'm obsessed with Hugh Laurie or House or anything, but my favourite accent moment of his was when he, an English actor, was playing an American character putting on a fake English accent. Brilliant! He's got some MAD accent skills going on, yo. :3
broadwaywriter
Stand-by Joined: 3/25/08
#43re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 5:33pmWhen I saw Guys & Dolls in London, I totally forgot I was in Britain until intermission.
#44re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 6:26pmWow. I had no idea Matthew Rhys was Welsh.
thirdrowcenter
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#45re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 7:54pmRachel Griffiths and Toni Colette have been mentioned previously and I agree.
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#46re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 8:07pm
I agree with Hugh Laurie! Absolutely!!!! I didn't know much about him when House began airing, but I recall someone telling me he was actually British. I remember thinking they were full of crap, there was NO way his accent was that good.
Then I saw him on Inside the Actors Studio and I was flabbergasted. lol
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nygrl23
Broadway Star Joined: 4/18/07
#47re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/3/08 at 8:30pmI had no idea Jonny Lee Miller (Eli Stone) was English until I saw a behind the scenes video. His American accent is great.
JbaraFan1
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/04
#48re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/4/08 at 10:51amI guess "Larry the Cable Guy" aka Dan Whitney could be included in this list since a lot of folks think his Larry character is a real guy.
#49re: Actors With Accents Who Had You Fooled
Posted: 6/4/08 at 11:08am
I totally agree on David Tennant! I had no idea he was Scottish till I saw him on The Graham Norton Show.
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