[ SECRET POST #3884 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3884 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Having not seen this, I'm idly curious: how is his American accent? He has such a heavy natural accent, I have trouble imagining him without it.

[(Anonymous)]

About the same as Hugh Laurie's as Dr. House; you can tell sometimes, but otherwise it makes him sound very clipped and proper and befitting of both a surgeon and sorcerer.

[(Anonymous)]

No, Hugh Laurie's was much better and very consistent. Cumberbatch's is much wobblier, especially when he's in a scene with other British actors. I think it would have been better if he went for a more transatlantic accent and stuck with it!

[rosehiptea]

I can't speak to Cumberbatch but I could virtually never tell with Hugh Laurie.

[(Anonymous)]

Have to disagree. Hugh Laurie had the rare slip-up that was mostly to do with stressing the wrong syllable, but he had a far more fluent and natural sounding American accent than Cumberbatch.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm west-coast Canadian and to me his accent seemed completely fine. So I guess a Brit trying to sound American just sounds Canadian? Lol, I honestly have no idea what people in this thread feel he did wrong. He sounded like an American to me - just a particularly well-spoken one, without any twang.

[el_regrs]

I don't either. Of course, this was the first role I'd ever seen him in, so I wasn't trying to catch him in a slip-up like I'm such an expert or something.

[(Anonymous)]

I wasn't trying to catch him in a slip-up like I'm such an expert or something.

Haha, yeah me neither. I don't really understand people who look for flaws in an actor's accent. I mean, if an accent is really terrible, then okay, I guess maybe it could ruin the character for me. But man, that accent would have to be atrocious - like, Keanu in Dracula bad (sorry Keanu).

I actually usually find it endearing when an actor slips a bit. Even if they slip quite a lot, I usually just think, well, everybody talks a little differently than everybody else, even within the same accent group; this is just that character's way of talking.

[(Anonymous)]

Californian, here (I think that's still part of the US) and he sounded fine to me. If I didn't know he was British, I wouldn't have even noticed anything. Yeah, he pronounced a few words oddly, like 'power', I think, but then I'd just assume he was Canadian. I think a lot of people who complain about this are being overly harsh...

That said, I agree with the OP: natural accent = way better.

[(Anonymous)]

To me, he sounded like an American who spent a lot of time in a posh British public school/boarding school and had some of his native accent altered by that (which, considering the arrogant prodigy character type he played, actually fit quite well).

[(Anonymous)]

I thought his accent was fine.