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Are there that many? Off the top of my head, I can think of Hugh Laurie, but no-one else springs to mind (I'm british though so it might well be less visible to
by ndsipa_pomu 4y ago
Are there that many? Off the top of my head, I can think of Hugh Laurie, but no-one else springs to mind (I'm british though so it might well be less visible to me).
- gmt2027 4y agoChristian Bale, Damian Lewis, Millie Bobbie Brown, Idris Elba, Henry Cavill, Tom Holland, Dominic West are all actors people are surprised to learn are British.
- arethuza 4y agoI was surprised to find out that Aaron Taylor-Johnson is English - and he did a splendidly radge Scot!
- vrc 4y agoAlso Damson Idris, Daniel Kaluuya (though somewhat known), Robert Pattinson, Andrew Garfield, Daniel Day Lewis, Chiwetel Ejiofor… Actually the list is very long if you keep going
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoThanks. I'm surprised about Christian Bale, Millie Bobbie Brown and Henry Cavill. Can't say that I'm familiar with Dominic West (haven't watched The Wire).
- madmoose 4y agoThe Wire even has a scene where Dominic West's character puts on a British accent. So a British man pretending to be an American pretending to be a Brit. The Wire is very good. It also features Idris Elba, so it has two British people playing Americans on either side of the law .
- ndsipa_pomu 4y agoReminds me of Hugh Laurie in Avenue 5 when his character puts on a U.S. accent to appear more reassuring to the passengers, but falls back into an english accent when he's panicking.
- tzot 4y agoI believe this native-accent is a common gag; Laurie also in one episode of House MD did the American-faking-a-British accent when he telephoned an overpond doctor in GB to learn more about the medical history of a patient. I also recall an episode of The Mentalist, where agent Rigsby (played by Welsh Owain Yeoman) says he can imitate a british accent and proceeds to do so, only to receive a “nah, not good enough” by the protagonist. The issue I (as a non-native English speaker) sometimes have with British actors is: how to pronounce their names?! Examples: the aforementioned Owain Yeoman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Siobhan (pronounced Shivohn IIUC) Finneran…
- ndsipa_pomu 4y ago> The issue I (as a non-native English speaker) sometimes have with British actors is: how to pronounce their names?! Examples: the aforementioned Owain Yeoman, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Siobhan (pronounced Shivohn IIUC) Finneran… I don't think it's purely a non-native problem with those names, though they're not exactly English names. I enjoy names such as Sean Bean ("Seen Been" or "Shorn Born"?) or even Mary Berry ("Merry Berry" or "Mary Bary").
- junon 4y agoCara Delevingne, to name another. Each of the HP core cast have had unrelated roles where they do - Emma Watson (The Perks Of Being A Wallflower), Rupert Grint (Servant) and Daniel Radcliffe (Horns).
- mikelward 4y agoI was surprised hearing Gillian Anderson's amazing English accent, but apparently she's lived both sides of the pond. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Anderson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillian_Anderson