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Christian Bale, Damian Lewis, Millie Bobbie Brown, Idris Elba, Henry Cavill, Tom Holland, Dominic West are all actors people are surprised to learn are British.
by gmt2027 3y ago
Christian 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 3y agoI was surprised to find out that Aaron Taylor-Johnson is English - and he did a splendidly radge Scot!
- vrc 3y 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 3y 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 3y 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 3y 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 3y 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 3y 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 3y 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 3y 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