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Ha ha, so true Otta, that makes an otherwise terrible film into a masterpiece, watching him struggle with that accent throughout has a sort of car-crash mesmerism about it.


He's actually a geordie too but he's lived in the states for so long that his natural accent is this weird garbled mish-mash that you can't even call mid-atlantic.

In fact if anyone says 'mid-atlantic' I always hear Lloyd Grossman in pre 'cooking doesnt get tougher than this' masterchef mode.

There's some voice coach here who does hollywood stars to do English Accents, and she seems to have gone for a slightly clipped nasal English which really winds me up.


See Sliding Doors, Bridget Jones films etc.


I'm pretty sure there have been good ones though, any nominations? Gillian Anderson is great, but then she spent her teenage years here, so maybe doesn't count.

I'm not saying it's a bad accent, it just doesn't actually exist in reality, and it's a bit whiny and annoying.


Someone said the same thing of Hugh Grant's in House (minus the whiny bit, though he's actually a bloody whiny character thinking about it).

Nobody in the US speaks like that, but people are always surprised to find out he's English because it's plausible enough to come from somewhere else in the US.

The south adopted those long vowels in a specific bid to stop sounding like norvern mankees innit.


Same thing happened in Madrid with all that lisping. In fact my relatives in Almeria don't seem to pronounce any letters at all, making spoken communication something of an issue, well for me at any rate.


It happens everywhere. See also Mrs Mangle in Neighbours with her high falutin' tones.

One of my biggest disappointments with the North is that I never see any actual monkeys.


Well that and the fact that it is generally a similar experience to emptying your dustbin into the shower, getting in fully clothed and turning on the cold tap.


(I?m sure I stole that metaphor but I can?t remember where from)

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