[ SECRET POST #5784 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5784 ⌋

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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

On average, I find both pretty lacking in believability. Although it depends on what American accent is being done, to be fair. New York accents, for instance, have a higher success rate for British actors than Southern accents. And there’s also a decent success rate for more Midwestern accents, or whatever the actual term is when Americans say they “don’t have an accent”, even though that’s an accent in and of itself.

Americans doing British accents on the other hand, rarely ever works.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

I should have been more clear in my last sentence in that I meant it rarely sounds believable to me, not objectively. I’m obviously not some arbiter of good accent acting.

Also, I have a pretty high suspension of disbelief because I rarely get distracted enough by a not so great attempt at an accent to have an entire performance ruined for me. Sometimes, it adds to a work. Like Daniel Craig in Knives Out.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sure you do.

[(Anonymous)]

How about Canadians and Australians?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I could see that. IMO, the best actors at doing both British and American accents are the Australians.

[(Anonymous)]

Except Nicole Kidman. Yikes.

[(Anonymous)]

are you british or american

[(Anonymous)]

I hope you know those aren't the only options

[(Anonymous)]

My question didn't imply that they were the only options, and also, no person would ever think that they were the only options.

[(Anonymous)]

And more importantly, are they white?

[(Anonymous)]

On balance I would agree, except when it comes to audiobooks. I have heard many an English narrator barely even try with an American accent.

(Also add here something about how American media is far more widely disseminated, so Brits tend to have a head start on hearing the accent. And something about how all sets with non-native actors should have an accent coach by default.)

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly I think those who are native to the accent will be able to tell a put-on accent better than others, so like I can usually clock a bad British accent(English really since it's all the very nondestript London accent rather than a regional one) and I imagine that Americans will be able to clock a bad US accent much better than I can.

I can normally only hear a bad US accent when it's really awful, ones that are 'okay' likely skirt me by because my ears aren't tuned into hearing the subtle differences.

[(Anonymous)]

And then there's Kiwis that do both better.

[(Anonymous)]

This is such a huge generalization as to be meaningless, imo.

[sparklywalls]

I used to think this way but I'm finding the more I experience and tune in, the more I realise there's good in both but also, really really bad in both.

And don't even get me started on non-British RP/non-English accents. Plenty of English actors completely mangle Scottish and Irish voices as much as American actors do for example.

[greghousesgf]

she's not an actress but I used to find Madonna's attempt at a Brit accent hilarious

[(Anonymous)]

Same!

Also, not an actress, but she sure tried to be for a while. I still find her pretending she “naturally” picked up that attempted accent funnier than even her worst acting performances, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, you think you know about bad accent impressions?

*laughs in Australian*

[(Anonymous)]

To paraphrase Daniel Radcliffe, it's because the Brits grow up with a lot of American TV/movies, and Americans typically don't watch British shows/movies.

[(Anonymous)]

Exactly the reverse for me, probably because I am American, possibly because (at least lately) I've mostly heard amateur/semi-amateur attempts by youtubers? With the caveat that Brits have a slightly higher rate of success if they go for a stronger flavor, like New York or Deep South, than standard Midwestern. But I swear to god every time PhilosophyTube tries to speak "American" I want to set Buckingham Palace on fire.

[(Anonymous)]

I know you’re just being hyperbolic about the Buckingham palace thing, but I don’t know if Abigail would really care that much if you did.

[meadowphoenix]

I find brits and us-ians are usually equally terrible at anything regional, but that brits are better at trans-atlantic than us-ians are at received pronunciation.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree, that’s been my experience as well.

[(Anonymous)]

Wouldn't be an opinion that many people disagree with, OP.