Top 10 Worst British accents

[blouhoender]

About a week ago. I believe RadioTimes published a list of the worst American accents by british actors. I was looking on the web and found this reversed list of the 10 worst British accents by American actors. Thought you guys would be curious.

http://www.okmagazine.com/pixandviRAB/gallery/7058

 

[>>BOb<<]

The worst I've ever heard are Dick Van Dyke in Poppins and Forest Whittaker in The Crying Game.

 

[mitchie r]

LinRABay Lohan's was pretty bad in The Parent Trap.

 

[Victoria :) :)]

I'm very surprised to see Elijah Wood and Paltrow there. Their accents seemed pretty much flawless.

 

[Halley M]

I agree.

There should be a thread about the 10 worst North American accents from the English actors. the ones i can recall are all very good though.


There are different dialects of the accent just like in England. I wonder if DVanDyke could have done a different English accent, as he butchered the cockney.

 

[Colby V]

I thought Forest Whittaker was a londoner when i first saw him in "The Crying Game".

 

[MarieAnne]

Van Dyke's was awful.

 

[flapjacks is fun]

Dick Van Dyke wins that one! I'm surprised that he only came 4th in that list.

 

[Sara]

 

[Canteen]

Keanu Reeves accent in Bram Stoker's Dracula was comedy gold.


for all the wrong reasons.

 

[Lini大愛無疆]

Don Cheadle in Ocean's 11 etc,etc.

Robert Duvall in The Lightship.

 

[Deontae]

Elijah's British accent was quite bad in The Fellowship of the Ring but improved in the last two films.

 

[webmaster0014]

I thought Palthrow's was fine as well.

The worst I've ever heard was Mickey Rourke's Northen Irish accent in A Prayer for the Dying - started off in N Ireland, took a trip south, had a quick visit to Scotland, spent a bit of time in Liverpool before giving up completely and getting the first plane home to the US.

 

[techa]

I always thought Gwyneth Paltrows Brit accent was very good

 

[cutsup]

As a Londoner born and bread it certainly makes me cring every time I see Maty Poppins - makes you wonder why they didn't get Tommy Steele to play the part instead.

 

[PACCAPACCA]

Presumably Green Street isn't a popular enough movie to trouble OK magazine. The "cockney" accent on the main fella (that isn't Elijah Wood) is excruciating.

Natalie Portman wasn't really trying to be English in Phantom Menace. She was the Queen of Naboo. her Nabooese/Nabooan may have been word perfect.

Scarlett Johanson in Girl With the Pearl earing was playing someone Dutch presumably so again that's not really attempting an English accent as such.

 

[mnn]

To add to that, it wasn't even the character's real accent - the character of Padme Amidala was putting on that accent when she was being Queen, and spoke with an American accent the rest of the time.

 

[Southern Plunger]

Indeed. A fair point well made.

 

[RIP MJ (miss you)]

Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins surely has to take the title for worst British accent? His attempt at a cockney accent was a joke!

 

[Patricia Seay]

Bert: Aw'right ladies an' gents! Comical poem! Suitable for the occasion, extemporised and thought up before your very eyes! All right, 'ere we go! Room 'ere for everyone, gather around. The constable - responstable! Now 'ow does that sound? Hm... 'Ello, Miss Lark, I've got one for you. Miss Lark... likes to walk... in the park... with Andrew! Hello, Andrew. Ah, Mrs. Corry, a story for you. Your daughters were shorter than you - but they grew!

Can't you just hear him!