British Girls React To Celebrities Attempting British Accents!!

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[LeftyConspirator]

I am a non-native English speaker, and I tend to subconsciously imitate the accents of native speakers I talk to. It's not meant as mockery or an insult or anything, I just pick up on the 'melody', so to speak, of different accents and dialects.

[nephi]

There was an American show called "The Nanny". In that show the actor that plays Niles the butler does so with a perfect British accent despite him being from Georgia. His accent is flawless.

[benrast]

I read that Renée Zellweger kept up the British accent on set the whole time Bridget Jones' Diary was filming, so when she dropped it at the end of filming, a lot of the crew members were shocked - they assumed she was British. As an American, I agree that it's easier for Brits to do an American accent than vice versa. With good voice coaching, some American actors do a passable job, but it's much more common to find British actors doing a passable American accent. Whenever I try to do a British accent it sounds like it's simultaneously a mash-up of all British accents along with something indecipherable that may be Irish or South African...who knows? And Chris Pratt's imitation was of people on a show called "The Only Way is Essex" that he got hooked on when working in London."

[henri]

Some actors try to make a accent more adapted to their character, ex : Tom Holland is from the UK 🇬🇧 but his accent in US is pretry good, especially in the spider-man movies

[anndeecosita]

Meryl Streep has done so many accents so well. A true thespian. Not all American actors can do other American accents well. I heard her do an American Appalachian accent recently and she was awesome and believable.
Personally for British actors I think it depends on which American accent they’re doing whether it’s easier. They seem better at the “general” accent that is promoted in Hollywood. Sorry but I didn’t think think Andrew Lincoln in TWD sounds like he’s from Georgia. His Southern drawl feels like he’s trying. I still enjoyed watching him though. The accents on CSI New Orleans were horrible and the actors were American. 😂

[buccaschie]

Whenever I do a British accent I imitate the words I heard from Different Brits and therefore my accent imitation would sound weird because it'd sound like mixed of all British accents. And YES British accents are HARD. You don't have to imitate the sounds, vowels, and tone but you got to imitate the melody of the rhythm. I'm an American and Johnny D. sounds more British even when talks normally.

[sisuriffs]

Fascinating to hear your discussions about accents. As a Canadian, I find American regional accents and the variety of Canadian accents (English and French) interesting too. Honestly, not so sure your American accents are spot on, at least in the short “American” schtick you do here. Would love to hear you give it a whirl in a more determined way. Do you, for example, hear the accent differences between someone from, say Toronto, Montreal, Detroit, and Chicago? So many interesting discussions to be had! Thanks for the fun talks about language.

[herrbonk]

It would be even better if we could actually hear anything being said... behind that muzak.

[BookishDark]

(For anyone wondering - imitating the speech or accent of people around you is totally normal and not something you can necessarily control - it’s an adaptive behavior because humans are social animals - we want to fit into a social group because it’s dangerous not to, so we tend to mimic the way other people speak when it differs from our own speech. Even if we’re conscious of doing it, it isn’t necessarily something we’re choosing to do. There’s a name for it that I, of course, can’t remember lol but it’s completely normal)

[TaxiZeus]

I just LOOOOVE Emily's energy
She's the kind of girl you never get bored when you hang up with her

[grantlink]

Emily's joke about what happened to her face (Me, floor, friends....Hi, b**ch, are you gonna see me today?...) was hilarious 😆. I rewatched it a bunch of times.

[deanmcmanis]

Renee Zellweger had a strong, native Texan accent. Which was why it was surprising to hear that she was chosen for Bridget Jones. But I thought that she did pretty well. Someone British would judge her ability better. I agree that in films the dialog coaches are there for every line to get the accent and inflections right. The Chris Pratt bit was just off the cuff. He had been in London for the filming of Guardians of the Galaxy, and got sucked into watching the show TOWIE, so this was his improvisation from watching the program, which shows his talent, and humor.

[paradoxmo]

Renee Zellweger is from Texas. However, before doing Bridget Jones they had her working part time in a London bookshop so that she could listen to and respond to people in a London accent. Because she was using a British accent, no one ever recognized her as Renee Zellweger.

[gordonwallin]

What another sweet video. (As a Canadian I grew up with American, Scot, Englsh-North and Cockney-Irish Canadian Prairies. Kiwis and Aussies were SO exotic.)Cheers from the Pacific West Coast of Canada.

[niamhoconnor]

Emily's accent is so strange though (but lovely <3). It's RP but so americanized or whatever that it almost sounds like she's an American doing a convincing posh accent

[dennischi]

Chris Pratt's one is absoultely hilarious. He's quite good at it.

[uenotakashi]

I'm loving energy of these 2 together

[gregmuon]

Johnny Depp's had a little practice in Sleepy Hollow. Obviously if you go back a few hundred years, Americans had British accents, since they were mostly British, technically. Therefore, Captain Jack was simply speaking with a very old American accent...

[vooides]

Posh girl broke my heart - summer 2022 hit

[abcfhdi]

Johnny Depp sounds British even when he's not trying to sound British.