Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzes the accents of some of Hollywood’s biggest names. How accurate were they really?
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Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors’ Accents | WIRED
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Good actors always aren’t much publicized
Interestingly, Viggo Mortensen is fluent in Russian. I wonder if it complicated or helped his accent. It makes sense it would come off as careful if he was in "Russian-speaking American pretending he was Russian trying to speak English" mode.
Funny DDL, was on here twice? He's not an actor, he's a magician!
As a Tennessean this man doesn’t know Tennessee/southern accents lol
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Completely missed the Irish traveller accent in Snatch. ‘Belfast’? Couldn’t be more wrong.
I wonder what he will think of my English accent, being a non-native speaker but also being exposed to American and British accents
Belfast accent in 'Far and Away'??? Nope, it was set in SOUTHERN Ireland, not Northern Ireland. Tom Cruise is attempting a Sothern Irish lilt, definitely not the harsher Northern accent.
Regarding Brad's southern accent: he was raised the same time as me in Springfield, Mo.
Which is a whopping hillbilly accent. I still get made fun of to this day.
So your telling me heath was an incredible actor
Jeffrey Wright Dominican/New Yorker accent is just perfect
Forgot to show the abysmal job Americans do of Australian accents. Always good for a lawf meet.
Heath proving how good he was
i loved Viggo in Eastern Promises! How bout Lara Croft?
'English accent' it's true we only have one 😂 still loved the video though, love these accent videos
Daniel Day Lewis 👍
I say this with the utmost disrespect possible, but TC sounds like a leprechaun having an identity crisis
Brad Pitt was born in Oklahoma and raised in Missouri, but can't do a Southern accent.
gosh Erik Singer is so hot I can't even concentrate on this video
Philip Seymour Hoffman was a treasure😊😊
Your dialect professional said Xhosa wrong
It’s weird they leave some fucks in and bleep others
Leonardo DiCaprio wasn't trying to do a West African accent in Blood Diamond, though. He was doing a Rhodesian accent.
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Youve probably read it
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Love Don xoxo. I guess i match with you guys because Im an Aries so im not very mature for a 62 year old. Satan isn't very mature rither. Hes a Pisces
Eric? Which of my Masterpieces do you like best? Look Away Dixieland? Continental Carol of 1926 or Booger Town?
DiCaprio f*ckin killed that role.
Blood Diamonds – 06'
Phenomenal movie
About the french accent: what i notice as a native french speaker is that french are inconsistent when they speak english. Sometimes it's the, sometimes it's ze. Same thing the "R". Also sometimes we say fing and not thing
I love these videos. So educational, interesting, and… fun! 🙂
As someone who was born and raised in Baltimore, I know our accent is a bit of a meme but it’s so distinct that it stands out. I love my accent ❤
I’m not convinced that Matt Damon said ‘stadium’ correctly?!
That weird clicking sound Ledger's do in the dark knight is because the make-up did'nt hold up as it should so those weird tongue movement was a way to go around the problem so kudo for him to have been able to maintain a constant accent with that annoying limitation.
Nobody warned me there was going to be 16 minutes of hilarity. The editing is just spot on.
You can tell which actors had dialect coaches and which ones didn't
Brad Pitt was not doing a Belfast accent in Snatch, he was playing an Irish 'Traveller', who are Irish 'Gypsies'. And it was pretty good.
I believed Renee Zellweger was British as a kid because of British Jones Diary and I will continue to do so.
I would love him to check Christopher Waltz in Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained
Phillip Seymour Hoffman was such an undervalued actor. He was so good RIP
Brad Pitt as Heinrich Harrer doesn't have an Austrian accent at all…
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