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?
Owen Nelson
Landon Rogers
They grow up watching American media. We dont watch British shit
Parker Thompson
America is too insular, culturally incestuous.
Gavin Baker
americans are only familiar with RP and cockney
Landon Jackson
Doing an American accent for British people just means talking more lazily and swapping a couple of consonant pronunciations
Owen Bailey
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
Sebastian Green
exposure + formal theatrical education
Aaron Thompson
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.
Jackson Thomas
You should also find out why Catherine Zeta-Jones can do such a good Welsh accent.
Brayden Campbell
acting training at RADA and elsewhere to learn accents and pronunciations
Americans just have kids talent contests and Disney/nickelodeon tween cable shows