Bad accents in tv/ films

[Bearpawk]

Anybody else get really bothered by this?

Honestly it makes my skin crawl for some reason and that's ALL I can think about/ hear and it completely ruins whatever I'm watching.
Some examples - Suranne Jones in dr foster
Lemon in Bullet Train
The sister in Insomnia

Arghhhh am I the only one who picks up on it ?

I watched Jessie Buckley murder a Glaswegian accent recently and got really cross - we do actually have actors here in Scotland, there’s really no need to have anyone doing bad impersonations of us.

Was that wild rose ? Yes I hated that too.

Oh god yeah we didn’t even get half way through Bullet Train. Taylor-Johnson’s accent was awful.

Chris Hemsworth in that Snow White film comes to mind. I think he was supposed to be Scottish.

American movies portraying an English person - the accent makes me cringe

Aidan Gillen in GoT and The Wire

Alfie Allen's Russian accent (and use of actual Russian) in a John Wick

Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins, she sounds like Lenny Bruce

It pains me to say it because I love him but Stephen Graham's welsh accent in White House Farm was decidedly dodgy.

I saw a bad accent TV countdown show and I'm sure Dick Van Dyke won the worst accent for Mary Poppins and his dreadful cockney accent attempt.

Sean Connery.
Hunt for Red October- plays a Russian, has a Scottish accent.
Highlander- plays a Spaniard, who was born in Egypt, has a Scottish accent.
The Untouchables-plays sn Irish man, has a Scottish accent.

Yes - and the film was shite!

Season 4 Peaky Blinders - rendered unwatchable by the cringe worthy Italian accent by this actor ...

American movies portraying an English person - the accent makes me cringe

The only English or British accent by an American actor I've ever thought was anywhere near convincing was James Marsters - Spike in Buffy. According to Wikipedia, he was coached by Anthony Head.

I was a smallish child when Mary Poppins came out. I remember sitting there in the cinema thinking a childish equivalent of 'wtf?' at Dick Van Dyke's accent.

Gerard Butler in P.S. I love you.

Chris Klein's awful southern accent in Sweet Magnolia 🙉

I couldn't get past episode 1 of peaky blinders as they all had totally different accents and I found it really jarring.

Another one for Peaky Blinders - one of the later series with the Glaswegian character not played by a Scot - sounded fucking terrible, like someone putting on their worst Irish accent. Agree with a pp about underuse of Scottish actors, it rarely goes well.

Daphne's family in Frasier - awful!!

Agree Sean Connery in the hunt for the red October, wtf.

Dominic West in the Wire, good acting but his accent was awful. Shit movie anyways but Diane Lane in a Perfect Storm. Also Blake lively in the one directed by ben Affleck where she plays his ex.

Accents have to be really bad to ruin something for me though, usually I just go with it.

I'm not British and struggle to pick up on good or bad accents, but what did you all think of Martin Freeman in the responder? Sounded terrible to me but when I googled it seems to have been highly praised...

Fake irish accents are really painful! Bit of lraveller mixed in with D4 and Belfast!

I like to think I do a better English accent than many highly paid American actors!!

Even Jane Leeves' accent was tripe. Meant to be from Manchester. John Mahoney's was better when he imitated her moaning about her hair. But I think he was originally from NW England.

I couldn't watch Canoe Man. The accents were so painful and just wrong.

East Anglian accents are routinely murdered by actors. They invariably sound like Long John Silver with a West Country accent - totally different from, say, a Norfolk accent.

Gwyneth Paltrow’s London accent in ‘Sliding Doors’ made me cringe a few times, and I’m northern.

Suranne Jones’ Yorkshire accent in ‘unforgiven’ was absolutely awful. It was a relief when they decided to give her Anne Lister in ‘Gentleman Jack’ a more general accent (ie, the way she normally speaks but a bit more clipped). I like her as an actor, but she cannot do accents.

Anyone who tries to do a scouse accent.

Martin Freeman does a fair attempt but most are awful.

Listening to the woman who played Coleen Rooney in the Rooney Vardy drama was excruciating.