Do you get wound up by actors doing your accent wrongly?

[Pruni]

I only ask because I was watching Ivor the Engine today and thought some of the Welsh accents sounded pretty dodge.

I am Scottish and it never fails to amaze me how many actors (and good ones at that) think they can get away with the crappy offerings that are their Scottish accents.

Really winds me up. Let's name and shame.

I don't know any names of actors that get it wrong (although I'm sure there are), but rather than having some stage school person from London pretending to be whichever one, why can't we just have genuine people from the areas with real accents? Why does it have to be someone "doing" an accent?! Bloody BBC.... If its out the M25 they don't want to know!

I know - though I have to concede that there are few good Scottish actors and quite a lot that I think get jobs because of their accent...

OK, Mel Gibson, obviously.
Hugh Laurie for his grating American jobbie in House.

I get wound up by 'cockney' outlaws doing our accent wrong. According to them we come from the Yorkshire Dales but we are really from South Manchester. We don't sound like we are from Emmerdale or Coronation St thank you very much.

Yes! Actors always seem to go over the top with a southern accent. Saw a movie not too long ago where Dennis Quaid totally butchered a New Orleans accent.

Pruni is emily mortimer Scottish? Her accent in Dear Frankie is amazing if not. And if you haven't seen it do so as it's fantastic movie.

Not so much as doing it wrong, but when they do a Brummie accent they are actually doing a Black Country accent which believe it or not is different.

I grew up in Birmingham, thankfully I dont have either a Brummie or Black Country, altho my family have a Brummie accent.

Pruni, as a fellow Scot, I feel your pain!

Good and hot Scottish actor....Gerry (gerard)Butler....ahhhhhhhh am in good place

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What annoys me most is when their Scottishness is the whole point (for example in an advertisement for Scottish call centres) yet it's a non-Scot doing a crummy accent. Just shows the advertisers' contempt for the audience. Should not let that wind me up. Should go and lie down...

dh gets fed up with RL people trying to do a 'down under'accent when they find out where he's from.

Having said that he can't work out any regional accents in the UK and his guesses are often bonkers

Emily Mortimer v definitely English (I have met her in fact).

Edward Woodward in the Wicker Man was brilliant.

I thought Renee Zellweger did a pretty good job and better than Gwyneth Paltrow, who was so oddly classless.

God yes Americans must get so pissed off all the time, so many accents to butcher.

Emma Thompson is awful at Scots even though her mum is Scottish.

Just remembered, years ago I was listening to a French radio prog when an advert came on with a man speaking in a very obviously Estuary English accent but saying in French 'je suis un Ecossais blah blah'/'I am a Scottish man'

Or is it Scots man?

I am Generic Southern English, so what annoys me isn't so much the poor accents but the misuse of idiom.
Anthony Stewart Head is actually British, yet didn't take the scriptwriters of Buffy to task for giving him lines like 'named for' (instead of 'named after') that no British person would use.

Ooh MrsB you have opened up a whole new layer of annoyance for me...yes that does grate terribly and I often wonder why the actors don't just say "Oi, I'd never say that..."

And another bad accent award to Spike from Buffy.

YES! Sooo many try to put on a Southern US accent and just sound like . . . well, same effect as someone trying to put on a fake Scottish accent.

DH, who has a very broad East Coast Scottish accent, has noticed that most actors try to put on a West Coast Scottish accent when they're going for the fake.

Even funnier are that sorry lot on 'Monarch of the Glenn' - vomit! - who try to put on Highland accents.

Apparently Spike's accent in Buffy is learned off Anthony Stewart Head, as that's his rl accent.

But yeah, it sucked. Not as badly as Angel's leprechaun-sounding Irish accent, though.

God, there was a movie where Helena Bonham Carter played someone from Nova Scotia. I saw the preview and had a hard time not throwing things at the screen.

Meryl Streep can do a good accent, though.

lol expat, yes, I have a highland accent originally and they just never ham it up enough - it is one of the sillier ones.

Ooh, that guy who played Sick Boy in Trainspotting - atrocious.

I do love the bit in Mickey Blue Eyes when Hugh Grant pretends to try to put on a New Jersey accent. Just thinking about it makes me crack up ...

I fancy Spike

golly, all my secrets are coming out today...

(MrsB me too )

I rate a film on how good the accents are (it comes of having studied phonetics and nearly becoming a dialogue coach).