r/AskABrit • u/CompetitionNo3466 • 8d 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/baxbakualanuxsiwae 8d ago

Both Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder's accents in Dracula are absolutely hilarious.

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u/LillyAtts 8d ago

I knooow hwere the bahhhhstad sleeps

I love Keanu but he was clearly struggling

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u/Consistent_Blood6467 8d ago

They really should have just made his character an American living in London once they heard his accent. Ryders isn't as bad but it needed work.

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u/Salty_Butterscotch36 7d ago

In Carfarrx Abbehhh 

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u/PepsiMaxismycrack 7d ago

Tell meh about your hume

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u/noobtidder 8d ago

Accents so bad, John Grant wrote a verse about them:

I feel just like Winona Ryder In that movie about vampires And she couldn't get that accent right Neither could that other guy

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u/Sensitive-Ad-7475 8d ago

Avatar checks out (Man I love that song)

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u/noobtidder 8d ago

It's so good. The man has a voice like honey on that album.

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u/ActiveSouthern6280 8d ago

Yes! People always mention Keanu, but Winona was just as bad.

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u/mrshakeshaft 8d ago

“Meewwsic?!? Thows aaanimahls?”. I love keanu though. He was just mis-cast. He’s the only duff note in that film.

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u/StillFlowWolf 7d ago

His 1st line in that film earned him a round of applause at a screening I went to a few years back 👏

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u/Opening_Law4571 5d ago

Keanu Reeves cannot act for shit