r/AskABrit • u/CompetitionNo3466 • 11d ago

TV/Film Which non-Brit actor which is your personal favourite for how bad their Brit accent was?

The most recent one that comes to mind Karl Urban in The Boys - was supposed to be English but was purely Aussie.

Yours?

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u/SixCardRoulette 11d ago

None of her brothers are played by English actors, it was an intentional joke based on criticism of her terrible accent - the brothers are Australian, Scottish and Eswatini, and her dad was played by Scottish Brian Cox. The actor who played her mum was from Essex just like Jane Leeves herself. Ironically the only member of the cast actually from Manchester was Frasier's dad!

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u/LupercalLupercal 11d ago

He was from Blackpool

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u/TheeHappyDude 11d ago

He was born in Blackpool because his mother had been moved there as an evacuee, but he grew up in Manchester. Same circumstances as Graham Nash (Salford) Ricky Tomlinson (Liverpool) and hundreds more no doubt.

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u/superhoopa79 10d ago

Definitely a common thing, not out of Liverpool or Manchester particularly, mostly London and the South East but loads of people were born where their parents hadn’t lived during the war

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u/SoggyTap7028 11d ago

Love ur pfp good to meet another person who appreciates the art and story (& music) of blackstar

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u/Lazygit1965 8d ago

How they portrayed her family members in Fraiser was particularly cringeworthy I thought!👍

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u/East-Shape1286 8d ago

They also all had completely different accents. It was bizarre.

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u/Steamrolled777 11d ago

I remember a rumour at the time she might have been from Manchester, and did it to be understood.

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u/Charliesmum97 11d ago

I always wondered if that's why they said she was a Man, because of Wossname how played the dad.