Actors who sound odd using their native accents

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Watching supernatural and James Marsters is in an episode. He is speaking with his native American accent and it just sounds so odd. He just sounds better with the British accent instead

Another one is Margot Robbie who is actually Australian. She pulls off the American accent so well as Harley Quinn, that I just couldn’t process hearing her speak with the Australian accent

Good call on Jennifer Ehle! She played an American ambassador to Yemen in The Looming Tower and her first words were “oh shit” and it was most disconcerting.

I was shocked when I heard Sean Gilder - who played Paddy Maguire in Shameless - being interviewed in an English accent! He's from Cumbria! I honestly thought he was Irish

And then there's James Nesbitt who has to have a Northern Ireland backstory written for all his characters as he can't do any other accent apart from his native one!

Jennifer Ehle is Duolingo buddy with my daugher and high five'd her for her 500 day streak. dd is quite immensly proud of that.

@BeQuietBrenda

I was listening to Chris and Rosie Ramsey podcast Shagged, Married, Annoyed a few days ago and they've both got lovely North East accents (I want to say Geordie but that's probably wrong, around that way though).

They were talking about a plasterer. However they were pronouncing the 'a' softly "ah" and it sounded so wrong that I couldn't carry on listening (and I live for that podcast, they're hilarious). So "Plahsterer" instead of the flat 'a'.

They've clearly had some nob advise them to clear up their pronunciation and it winds me up, there's nothing wrong with their accents and we need proper accents in the media instead of if being awash with RP or wannabe RP (Donna Air, Gerri Halliwell, James "I'm from Yorkshire" Martin and as you say, Alan Titchmarsh)

(there's nowt wrong with a soft 'ah', if that's your natural accent - my issue is when it doesn't sit naturally with your accent)

It's a bit of an oddity, but where I'm from in the NE, we do say plah-ster, (and mah-ster), but other words are pronounced with a short a sound, so we'd say fas-ter, for example, not fah-ster. Nothing to do with trying to sound posh.

It's a bit of an oddity, but where I'm from in the NE, we do say plah-ster, (and mah-ster), but other words are pronounced with a short a sound, so we'd say fas-ter, for example, not fah-ster. Nothing to do with trying to sound posh

@JasmineTeacup
Exactly the same for my little pocket of W.Yorks- master and plaster specifically, can't think of any others. But I know that 20 miles down the road, they say both with a flat 'a', and I've had more than one occasion where someone will ask 'why are you saying it like that?! ' so it must clang somewhat!