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 ?

One drama that was really badly done re accents was a dramatisation of Adrian Mole. (I think Julie Walters played his mum). Everybody had Brummie accents. No attempt at Leicester accents, which are completely different! Famously it's set in Leicester and of course the author Sue Townsend was born and lived in Leicester all her life.

Yes!

Are you thinking of Chris O'Dowd?

Saskia Reeves in Luther, apologies if it is genuine but I find it distracting, re watching it again

Leo wasn't meant to be Irish in gangs of New York ? Just his father was.

Brad Pitt in lock stock and two smoking barrels said he invented his own accent as a joke, not sure if he decided this before or after shooting though I heard similar for peaky blinders, what we know as a typical regional accent now didn't exist back then so the accents are meant to be weird.

For Emily in Friends, I think they had her do that accent because it's annoying and she's meant to be an annoying character

Another one of the worst: Idris Elba in Molly's Game, yikes. Odd because he wins best Brit doing American in the Wire (along with Christian Bale in anything).

Anne Hathaway in One Day had me cringing
Worst Yorkshire accent and probably just generally the worst British accent on screen.

But that's ones so bad it's good

Also the fact that mini driver is supposed to be playing a "big fat girl) and she's just not

I'm not being offensive there. In the book the character is regular called "a big fat girl) or a big soft girl)

Tom Hardy in Locke trying to do a Welsh accent kept veering into Indian English.
Same actor in Survivor. A great performance but I had to switch on subtitles.

He should stick to his Cockney growl. My favourite line of his from Peaky Blinder is:
” if vis iz’ell i’luks a lo’ loik Maagai’ (if this is Hell, it looks a lot like Margate)”

Absolutely. The only person who I have ever heard get it right (Suffolk) was Ralph Fiennes in The Dig. It was a real pleasure to hear. He made sure to get very good dialect coaches and even went on a local pub crawl with one of them to get really attuned to it.

No-one else ever seems to get that East Anglian people do not, ever, roll their rs.

Agreed! It's what I liked about it.

Such a long list! If actors can't get the accent right, no way should they just plough on. Back to the coach. Get it right!! Not saying its easy mind you but don't take on the role if you can't do it justice

Generally any one trying to do a Scottish Highland accent is horrible but Celia Imrie's "bonnie wee lassie" accent as Connor MacLeod's girlfriend deserves a mention. Highlander was an absolute bin fire of accents but in among all that Celia still managed to stand out.

I don't even know what accent Katherine Kelly was trying to do in Alan Bates Vs the Post Office but it was really off-putting

Alan Cummings in the Traitors……

Sorry, The Revenant, not Survivor.

Just remembered, Michael C Hall's "English" accent in Safe was decidedly odd.

Yeah - In 'Orphan Black' Tatiana Maslany did do quite a decent English accent as Sarah Manning. Also a very good one as Helena - the Ukrainian clone. She also did a German quite well, (Katja,) and a decent Finnish one - (MK.)

And yeah Jordan Gavaris (Felix) did a good English accent.

A friend of mine who was from Dorset had a dialect coach tell her she was doing a Dorset accent wrong….

Yes, I think because he was born and grew up in Suffolk. But agree, in general few actors get the East Anglian accent right.

The Suffolk accent is actually quite soft and flat. Not like West County at all.

Yes@RedYellowPinkGreenPurpleOrangeBlue, I agree about Tatiana Maslany, she was just brilliant in that! Have always looked out for her in stuff since Orphan Black finished.

The Felix guy was good too, I also originally thought he must be English. They both were pretty convincing as English characters, but it wasn't the accent as such but the occasional wrong turn of phrase that gave it away. And Sarah and Felix both said 'shite' a lot, which I think is maybe more of an Irish thing? But they were brought up by an Irish foster mother I suppose.

Has anyone mentioned Keanu Reeves is Dracula yet? Absolutely stellar cast other than that (and I usually love Keanu)

Ha! I’m half Irish and I’m really surprised to hear that because it sounded like half the time he was forgetting to put the accent on. However it sounds like I need to beg his pardon!

The first series of peaky blinders.
Anyone attempting scouse ever.