Why are British actors always better at doing American accents than American actors are at doing British accents?

Why are British actors always better at doing American accents than American actors are at doing British accents?

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They grow up watching American media. We dont watch British shit

America is too insular, culturally incestuous.

americans are only familiar with RP and cockney

Doing an American accent for British people just means talking more lazily and swapping a couple of consonant pronunciations

I was about to commend Anya Taylor-Joy on perhaps being the only American actor I can think of that pulled off a convincing northern accent, than I looked up where she was from and found out she's English-Argentine, lol

exposure + formal theatrical education

Most UK actors are classically trained in theater. So they spend the early part of their careers working on stagecraft. While here in the US most of our actors are people who moved to LA and took acting classes from some deadbeat.

You should also find out why Catherine Zeta-Jones can do such a good Welsh accent.

acting training at RADA and elsewhere to learn accents and pronunciations

Americans just have kids talent contests and Disney/nickelodeon tween cable shows

>RADA

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British actors doing American tend to sound weirdly generic, even people like Hugh Laurie who do it well. I can’t recall any doing say a Boston or Philly accent.
As for Americans doing British, I thought Steven Dorff in Backbeat did a better Liverpool accent than some of the British actors in that movie.

Why would an American waste their time learning the accent of a third world country?

Watch "Good Time" to hear Robert Pattinson doing a specific American accent.

Because they can act.

pretty much this

I used to think Johnny Depp was British

lol his british is horrible

What movie was he British in?

>any doing say a Boston or Philly accent
Even americans struggle with it, especially bostonian since it's so damn weird

I live fifteen miles from Boston and I can’t do one except to say “Cahh” or “Dowachesta”

because no one sane can make the sounds that come out of an angloids mouth

British people wouldn't admit an American had a convincing english accent even if they did have one

beeeahsteds closed down fehnweh pahk

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wtf is that? doctor Mordrid?

Just Gary Oldman's casual wear.

retaahd

>he doesnt dress Warlock Chic

Because brits have to actually train to be actors and actresses and not just suck some Jewish peen for a career in acting

if theyre doing American accents in American movies then they still have to suck Kike cock.They have to learn American accents if they want to do big roles and not just Masterpiece Theater

Pic related did a pretty convincing cockney accent, considering she's american

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Fucking witnessed

I think Tom Hardy tried one in Venom.

what a hideous face

Yeah, she's American.

From Hell, Sweeney Todd, they are terrible.

>muh classically trained meme
You don't even know what that means you stupid Mexican

>What movie was he British in?
English in From Hell, the Pirates films, Corpse Bride, The Libertine, Dark Shadows, Fantastic Beasts, Dr Parnassus, Sherlock Gnomes, Alice in Wonderland.
Scottish in Finding Neverland and Alice in Wonderland (Jesus Christ, what a clusterfuck).
I may be forgetting others

Jim did a remarkable British accent

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>British people wouldn't admit an American had a convincing english accent even if they did have one
Gwyneth Paltrow and Renee Zellweger got loads of praise

Wow, good point.

Haven't seen most of the others but Grindelwald is German, whatever accent he was doing wasn't supposed to be a British accent in the first place.

Spike is the best part of Buffy and Angel

Fpbp

>British people wouldn't admit an American had a convincing english accent even if they did have one
Britfag here, Robert Downey Jr has a perfect English accent in the Sherlock Holmes series

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>greatest American actor
>greatest British actor

How does he do it, bros?

I don't remember the last time I've heard a propper British/English accent and i live in London

So are you a mute or what?

how do you go through life not picking up accents from your own country?

Depp wasn't doing a German accent though, he was doing an English one

We've all moved out mate. Enjoy your Poles and Pakis.

>how do you go through life not picking up accents from your own country?
I wonder this every time I see Charlie Hunnam playing a man from England

Nah, it's just his speaking voice.

Funny, he always sounded like an Australian trying to dial it back to me