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Old 12-02-12 | 08:42 PM
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Actors with bad fake accents?

I was watching Perks of being a wallflower today and Emma Watson's fake American accent was just horrible. You could tell she was trying her hardest but the British accent kept coming in and out.

Maybe since it was her first film using one and she'll get better over time.
Old 12-02-12 | 08:55 PM
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Tom Cruise- Far and Away
Kevin Costner- Robin Hood: POT
Keanu Reeves -Bram Stoker's Dracula
Old 12-02-12 | 09:06 PM
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Kevin Costner- Robin Hood: POT
That's the one I thought of when I saw the thread title.
Old 12-02-12 | 09:13 PM
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Charlie Hunnam (Jax) on Sons of Anarchy.
Old 12-02-12 | 09:16 PM
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Jared Harris in Lincoln
Tom Hardy in Lawless
Old 12-02-12 | 09:17 PM
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I remember Ken Branagh's American accent in Dead Alive being particularly cringeworthy.
Old 12-02-12 | 09:23 PM
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Took me a second there...
Old 12-02-12 | 09:25 PM
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Claire Forlani - Mallrats

Tom Hardy - DKR
Old 12-02-12 | 09:27 PM
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This will probably send people into a fit, but Daniel Day-Lewis in Last of the Mohicans. To his credit, it's the only film where he does have accent problems.
Old 12-02-12 | 09:30 PM
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Patty Duke - The Miracle Worker
Old 12-02-12 | 09:41 PM
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Matthew Goode - Watchmen
Old 12-02-12 | 09:49 PM
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Rod Steiger's Irish accent in Run of the Arrow is hilarious. It sounds just like Spencer Tracy's portugese in Captains Courageous.

I also remember Ewan McGregor's American accent in Black Hawk Down sounding a bit off.
Old 12-02-12 | 10:32 PM
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Tom Hanks' southern retard accent in FG.
Old 12-02-12 | 11:11 PM
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Originally Posted by inri222
Tom Hanks' southern retard accent in FG.
For what it's worth, supposedly Hanks patterned his accent after the kid who played young Forrest. The kid actually talked like that so Hanks just used the same accent for adult Forrest.
Old 12-02-12 | 11:40 PM
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every Nicholas Cage accent.
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The grandaddy of them all....Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins.
Old 12-03-12 | 12:49 AM
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Leonardo DiCaprio in Blood Diamond
Old 12-03-12 | 01:39 AM
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Jodie Foster - Elysium

Unless they went back to re-dub her lines.
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Old 12-03-12 | 03:49 AM
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Re: Actors with bad fake accents?

Originally Posted by whoopdido
Tom Hardy in Lawless
Originally Posted by Obey The D
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You know, I really like Tom Hardy but the more movies I see with him the more I'm convinced he just says his lines with a mouth full of marbles. Even his natural accent sounds like he's talking with his mouth full.
Old 12-03-12 | 06:18 AM
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Al Pacino in SCARFACE. Hilariously bad.
Old 12-03-12 | 08:23 AM
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James Mason in Age of Consent grapples with an Austrailian accent at the beginning of the movie, but by the time the action switches to Austrailia about fifteen minutes in, wisely drops it for his usual distinctive mid-Atlantic delivery.
Old 12-03-12 | 09:46 AM
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Re: Actors with bad fake accents?

Originally Posted by Rockmjd23
Robin Williams in Good Will Hunting
Did he even attempt an accent? I thought he just sounded like himself.

I came across a horrible accent recently:

Ivo Nandi (Joe Masseria on Boardwalk Empire)
Old 12-03-12 | 09:49 AM
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Re: Actors with bad fake accents?

Originally Posted by JumpCutz
Tom Cruise- Far and Away
Kevin Costner- Robin Hood: POT
Keanu Reeves -Bram Stoker's Dracula
Costner wasn't even trying.

others

Julia Roberts - Mary Reilly
Heather Graham - From Hell
Old 12-03-12 | 12:12 PM
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Justin Theroux in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle


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