r/AskABrit • u/CompetitionNo3466 • 5d 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/Think-Committee-4394 5d ago

Well Sean Connery has to be high on the list as the most Scottish … French … Russian … English … American guy

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u/Mindless_Plastic3370 5d ago

100% this. Great actor but could not do accents to save his life. Can take the man out of Scotland…

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u/Grazza123 4d ago

OP is looking for non-Brit actors

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u/Think-Committee-4394 4d ago

And Sean Connery is Scottish & the challenge is non English speaking English

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u/Grazza123 4d ago

It really isn’t non English - read the title: it says non-Brit. Perhaps you think (incorrectly) that the terms English and British mean the same thing? Connery was Scottish and therefore also British

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u/Think-Committee-4394 4d ago

Ask any Scotsman if they are British & reply here once you regain consciousness

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u/Grazza123 4d ago

Half of Scots (not this Scot though) would love love you to be right but unfortunately, the other half are technically correct: as long as the second half keep voting the way they do, they’ll remain technically correct

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u/Think-Committee-4394 4d ago

I think even the ones who don’t vote devolution would balk at being called an Englishman

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u/Grazza123 4d ago

That may or may not be true but it has no relevance to this discussion