Aibu to enjoy seeing scots actors using their scots accents?

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So many end up having to use English or American accents in their work - I suspect the same is true for welsh and northern Irish actors too.

Also English actors with strong regional accents.

I love the rich diversity of accents and have even study the history and reasons to a peripheral degree and would love to learn more.

My own - due to being a military brat is 'fluid' heavily influenced by who I'm talking with at the time or strong accents on tv or radio.

I'm currently watching old episodes of Taggart on ukplay.

The episode I'm currently watching (well series of episodes the ones all following one storyline are all played as one episode - it's like a feature film love it)

This particular one features:

Sara stewart - most recently I saw her in unforgotten with an English accent

Billy Hartman - who played terry in emmerdale

The next one features Hannah Gordon so well known for her English roles I've met people who don't know she's a Scot.

Others who've appeared in Taggart and then gone on to be well known for roles in which they played English characters or even American ones

Robert Carlyle
Alan cumming
Neil Duncan
John Hannah
Jason Isaacs
Phyllis Logan

To mention just a few.

I understand why they need to play characters with other accents but I do enjoy hearing regional accents especially from actors for whom that's their natural accent.

Which actors do you get pleasure from seeing them being able to play with their natural accents? Are you from the same area? Which accents do you like generally?

In addition to scots accents (yes there's more than one) I love Irish accents but particularly Dublin, also scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire and welsh accents.

I'm sure there was a reason for it, but I never understood why David Tennant adopted an English accent to play The Doctor.

The whole point of the character is that he (and now, gasp, she!) frequently regenerates in various different forms; but the idea that he might have a Scottish accent appears to be just too far fetched?!?!

Yes I thought that odd too no storyline reason for him needing to have an English accent. How did capaldi play dr who?

Dougray Scot makes me melt everytime I hear him speak in his native accent. As for Robbie Coltrane - I just thought he was really good at doing Russian gangsters accents until I realised he was actually Scottish!

Capaldi played him as a Scot.
David Tennant did use his native accent in an episode set in Scotland IIRC

Shetland has proper shetlanders acting in it.

I was listening to a radio play with a Scottish character and the actors accent was akin to Dick Van Dykes ‘col-er-nee’ - but much worse. I couldn’t listen to it after a while because it was so awful.

Everyone (in my circle) seemed to be surprised that Richard Madden (GoT, Bodyguard) is Scottish. But then I'm Scottish and can spot a Scot a mile off. He's also lovely. And can guard me any day

I loved Madden's accent in Bodyguard. So much I started watching interviews with him just to hear him speak

Sausage - I think it's because Dr Who is globally popular so they need to keep the Language easily translatable to a wide range of non native-English speakers.

Everyone knows that Dr Who is Scottish in reality so not far-fetched at all.

Sam Hueghen in outlander. Omg I love the accent

I watched all the Shetland series on Netflix and enjoyed trying to differentiate the various Scottish accents. I think there was only one actor with an authentic Shetland accent, and it sounded so unusual. It seemed to verge on a Scandinavian accent.

David tennants accent is Scottish academy of music and drama accent James Mcavoy has the same generic Scots accent anyway im scottish so love hearing our accents on Tv and film but taggert is an STV programme so why wouldn't they speak scottish.

I thought Jason Isaacs was from Liverpool (or did you mean he has a strong regional accent)?

Alan cummings bless him has that transatlantic thing going on now his accent is a bit all over the place nowadays, Jason issacs is indeed liverpurdian

Yes i agree. Unless there is a reason for a particular accent then i don't see why they have to be changed so much.

Maybe it's a way for the actor to show their skills, and therefore be considered for more varied roles?

Well acting is just pretending go be somebody else so if a scottish actor auditions for a rolecas an English person then let them crack on.

I think there was only one actor with an authentic Shetland accent

Yeah, and even it was modified to make it more understandable for TV.

Dd had a school friend that moved down from Shetland i used to try and follow her mumt i could just about catch the gist of what she was saying it really is a foreign language

You can always hear a Scot slip out of the accent they are putting on as soon as they have to swear - James McAviy is particlatly bad for it as is Martin Compatible

I did like The Island where Ewan McGregor plays one part as American and the other as a Scot

The aberdonian accent can be a hard one to catch (and I have relatives up there).

Sam Heughan-

I forgot to include one of my favourite examples:

Sharon Rooney (my mad fat diary, last series of no offence) who a couple of friends in real life (scots too) refused to believe she was a Scot! I'd to send them links of her doing interviews!

David tennants accent is somewhat generic but then I suspect other than scots might struggle if he continued to use a strong Renfrewshire accent.

One of my grans was a shetlander by birth, well until she was about 12/13 when the family moved to glasgow. I could understand her fine and it certainly wasn't as strong as some but occasionally i'd to translate her to others. I didn't necessarily spot many true Shetland accents in the show but maybe they had to water down to be understood?

Robbie Coltrane - I think I read somewhere he had an eastern bloc relative he'd imitated as a youngster was why he did those accents so well.

Peter capaldi makes me laugh, while yes he has a scots accent he's from springburn and I'm sure it's far more posh than the one he used growing up!

I'm really good on spotting accents. I once had minor surgery and the dr was of African origin but widely travelled - he was genuinely amazed I could pinpoint his original country, then the 2 country (both of these different African countries) he went to uni In and finally where he'd done his medical training to the city! He was not having it I'd never even been to Africa (I wish!) but I'd trained nurses from the countries he'd lived in and was very familiar with the accents and the last accent is a very well known one globally and as I say I've a real ear for this.

I can usually tell a British accent within about 10 miles if not 5 having lived all over uk.

Jason Isaacs oops think I've mixed him up with someone else but not sure who.

On the subject of Liverpudlians

Jodie comer

Is amazing at accents. I've not watched killing eve properly yet but what I've seen she has the Russian accent spot on, I think maybe Yekaterinburg accent? She's also a mad fat diary alum - I think hardly any of the cast were using their true accents! Must have been weird them all going back to their normal accents when not filming!

"Alan cummings bless him has that transatlantic thing going on now his accent is a bit all over the place" ouch! That's never good but I can see how it happens as several friends have said they've had to put on American accents even holidaying in america just to be understood on certain words/phrases.

"Yes i agree. Unless there is a reason for a particular accent then i don't see why they have to be changed so much. " given how much migration there is in the uk - hell worldwide now I agree it would actually be more realistic to have actors in shows based in cities have different accents. Eastenders is particularly bad for this! As if in modern London a working class borough would mostly be London accents! That reminds me of another actor well known for an English accent role - laurie Brett, Jane in eastenders.

"You can always hear a Scot slip out of the accent they are putting on as soon as they have to swear" haha! So true!

"The aberdonian accent can be a hard one to catch (and I have relatives up there)." I've relatives even further north, when the older ones were still alive they wouldn't even necessarily always be using English words, wee bits of Gaelic would slip in too.

Matthew Rhys really surprised his American audience when he made his acceptance speech in his own Welsh accent having won an Emmy for playing an American.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45559664

Sausage - I think it's because Dr Who is globally popular so they need to keep the Language easily translatable to a wide range of non native-English speakers.

True, I know it's become a commercial behemoth for the BBC, but David Tennant's normal accent is clear and hardly difficult to understand by most people who know English, surely? He doesn't exactly sound like Rab C Nesbit!

As somebody who has lived in the English Midlands for most of my life, I've never struggled to understand anything I've heard David T say. Del Boy, on the other hand.... Should all the characters in OFAH have been made to speak like they'd been RADA trained?!

Just to say so true I really agree with this.
Saw an episode of Hamish Macbeth recently and that was great.
Anyone remember monarch of the glen? Some lovely accents.. esp dawn Steele

I don't think Alan Cumming sounds any different than he always has.