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For many years, Superman, Batman and Spiderman were all Brits, which is hilarious.
Not to mention Lincoln, of all people.
And captain America, romanian 😅
Superman films was made in the U.K look it up
@famcirtChris Evans is from The U.S.A.
It comes to something that when they need a good actor to play an American superhero they have to cast a brit.
Everybody who hasn't watched Blackadder should watch Blackadder.
O YES ABSOLUTLY !!!
Shut up, Baldrick! 😅
@EgonOertzetalHaha came here to say just that! 😅
I should watch that then, is it any good?
@plainandsimpletruth Is it like Black Mirror? I've heard it's just about turnips.
It's not just about Brits doing US accents, remember full monty when robert carlyle played a Yorkshire bloke. Filmed about 10 mile from me and I thought it sounded right, not a "DeeDar" but more general S. Yorks accent.
2:00 when they say Henry Cavill is Jersey born, they are talking about the original Jersey, not the new one.
Famous for it Jersey Royal new potatoes not New Jersey famous for Bruce Springsteen 🤣👍
@dcallan812 And famous for its Jersey cattle not New Jersey famous for Jon Bon Jovi.
@dcallan812 and Jersey cows too
@Spiklething ooh yes Jersey cream 👍
@dcallan812 not as good as Guernsey cream 😁
I think the counter-shock for Brits about Hugh Laurie was him taking on a straight part. We'd spent decades of seeing him playing various class of comedy idiot on British TV - before we even start on the partnership with Stephen Fry. We were very keen on Fry & Laurie as teenagers.
This 👍
I’ve never seen a woman urinate. I’ve never ridden a camel. Where’s me cocoa?
He did it because he was a touch jealous of the career trajectory of Emma Thompson who he was at university with. So he wanted to prove to himself he could do it as well. He's mostly doing music with his blues band these days.
I'm not sure it is quite a straight part after all.
The limping and the story lines are what they are.
I was shocked when I first saw that Laurie was in House using an American accent.
I still find it difficult to watch.
now do australian, french, german, south african and about 10 episodes of canadian and you will realise that hardly anyone in hollywood is american.
Yeah....I remember someone asking why Margot Robbie was doing a silly accent in her interviews 😂
Hollywood is about 20% Canadian, including 'Americas' Sweetheart', who started United Artists and ran it for years.
We cornered the market on actors named Ryan.
Don't forget the Dutch actors!
Now, Canadians are also Americans.
But you can often tell USAmericans by their botox look and their bad acting.
Meryl Streep and Dustin Hoffman foremost by the few excluded.
YES YES YES 😊😊❤❤
I’ve seen threads where people argue about music and the bit that made me laugh was some Americans saying they have the best rock bands like Queen, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd etc 😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah, same here in Australia, got in an argument with a yank claiming ACDC were from the US because he grew up listening to them.
Really good US bands. Freddie Mercury was even Indian 😁
@mademoiselledusfonctionell1609 Mercury was Tanzanian I think.
@philcollinson328 Mercury was born in what is now Tanzania, but he was English and his ancestry was Indian and Persian
Yes what amazes me is they loved their music yet clearly never once saw them being interviewed 😂
What’s WILD is that Americans don’t even know about the incredible career that Hugh Laurie has had - and I’m not including “House”.
I absolutely love and adore his Jazz piano playing & singing. His duet of 'Kiss of Fire' with Gaby Moreno is absolutely stunning.
My favourite is Jeeves & Wooster 😄
Not mentioned in this video, the one and only Gary Oldman. Fantastic actor with a wide range of accents.
Charlie Hunnam, Damian Lewis, Tim Roth, Nicholas Hoult, Dominik Westh, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosamund Pike, Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Pattinson....so many!
Eamonn walker who plays chief boden on Chicago fire. Jesse Spencer who was in it along with house is an aussie as well.
I think everyone know Bendydick Cumslut is British though, that couldnt be a shock to anyone.
Helen Mirren, Tom Hardy, David Tennant, Michael Sheen, Kate Beckinsale.
@bionicgeekgrrl Didn't Jesse Spencer talk with his Australian accent on House, though?
@styx85it was a bit muted, but yes, definitely lost it for Chicago fire.
Half of the actors in Band of Brothers were British. Check it out.
I loved Hugh Laurie in Blackadder as a kid and when House first came out i couldn't watch it because it freaked me out to hear him sounding like an American
A bit of Fry and Laurie was equally brilliant!
I didn't recognise him (or rather connect) him at all. Im not a Brit sop only knew him from Blackadder and some of the other stuff he did with Fry, and he had no beard in any of those 🤭
it's called acting, perhaps a novel thought for you
@jackiei3685I agree - I find it distracting hearing him with an American accent. No need to be so snarky love.
Another Batoman - Robert Pattinson. Don't forget Dame Angela Lasnbury, and Dame Elizabeth Taylror, and to some extent, Gillian Anderson (X-Files), John Mahoney (Frasier).
I thought Cary Grant was a well known Brit. Seems pretty obvious when you listen to him! He had the trademark dry wit. Michael Caine recalled seeing him in a hotel or something, shortly after Caine went to Hollywood, and was so starstruck he could only say 'You're Cary Grant'. To which the great man replied simply 'I know'.
No, it was the subtle mid-Atlantic accent. Probably even harder.
I think most Brits are thrown by Americans not knowing Hugh Laurie was British as he was already a household name in the UK before starring in House.
Hugh Laurie is one of the most ridiculously talented performers on the planet, he can sing, play the piano, perform serious or comedy roles and do multiple accents, can write and do improv
And at un, he was an athlete too. I think he rowed the boat race
He also played a Brit in Friends. It was only a small part, but surely a lot of Americans saw it as they often did cameos
@jenG-missmyhorsey Most Americans aren't going to remember a bit part of someone 7 years prior to them having a major role on US tv.
Like most people won't know that both of the brothers from Prison Break made appearanes in House or that Jennifer Aniston was in an episode of Quantum Leap.
It's one of the reasons I like to re-watch old shows, you regularly see people that went on to become famous in other roles and it's like wow it's Joe McSwaggerbang from "They like to lie to each other and argue in sarcarstic ways"
He was a household name in Sweden too.
Hugh Laurie can also do a fake brit accent xD ( as seen in house )
The biggest surprise is that out of millions of Americans the best person for the role was a Brit. 😀
Even though Kate Winslet hated her accent in Titanic, given the time, she'd most likely have spent a lot of time in the North of England such as Sheffield or Manchester. So some flexibility can be given. Accents rub off, I spend 3 months at a time in the US, and have to really work hard on keeping my accent.
No surprise at all. If you want a job done properly ...
Americans thought Adele and Amy Winehouse were American
And Sade.
they're not ''fake'' accents - British actors are trained to play different accents.
it's acting. 🎭🖖🏽
Oh, Anthony Hopkin from Port Talbot - Lekter in Silence of the Lambs!
I think the first on screen portrayal of Hannibal Lecter was the Scottish born actor Brian Cox in Manhunter who could have been another actor on the list. Too many iconic roles to list but he was the patriarch in the HBO series Succession & of course my favourite Captain O'Hagan from Super Troopers.
The craziest criticism of an accent I’ve seen recently was the person complaining about Margot Robby speaking “normally” during a Barbie press interview.
Robby was speaking in her regular Australian accent and someone was annoyed enough by that they began asking about if she had a work visa and told her to just “stop showing off”
I wish I could send it to you.
I think it’s on Reddit under -
“💩 stuff Americans say” or you could probably just google it and find it. 😂
Hugh Laurie is a British comedian and rowed in the Cambridge eight in the annual University Boat Race
Isn’t it ironic that the most iconic American heroes are played by Brits?
Hugh Laurie is THE Bertie Wooster. That’s why hearing him in House is quite jarring. 😂😂
so many 'brits??' don't seem able to grasp concept of acting
unbelievable
Having good acting abilities that include utilising accents is hardly considered tricking someone.
Andrew Lincoln that is a masterclass
Its really strange that Americans don't know the British actors but us Brits know the American Actors.
mules wear blinders...
USA BUBBLE!
Isn't it interesting that pretty much ALL the symbolic American superheroes (Superman, Spiderman, Batman) were all played by Brits? Even Abraham Lincoln? Damn, I'm so proud! haha
Well, the original performers of those superheroes were American: Christopher Reeve, Tobey Maguire, Michael Keaton.
@EnoVarma I can't argue with that, and Christopher Reeve was (and still is) one of my all time super heroes. May he rest in peace. Also, Maguire was fantastic as Spiderman too. I'll be honest, I haven't watched Batman for about 25 years, so can't comment on that!
@EnoVarma The original and best Batman was Adam West. (There were actually a couple before him, in the 40s, but I've never seen them).
It's the quality of actors, British actors work on their craft, being good actors, where as these days, American actors are all about their brand, about selling who they are. There are exceptions, but for the most part, most young American actors aren't simply that good cause they don't put the work in, so other nationalities are taking those parts.
@EnoVarma original performance of superman was George reeves.
My favourite Hugh Laurie - House story is that when they were casting the pilot, the producer hated all of the English actors doing an American accent. When Hugh came up he watched the audition and then turned to the casting director and said "see , this is why we need an American"
The best bad guys, guess what, British. Alan Rickman in Die Hard. Patrick Stewart played one in a movie, brilliant
Don't worry Ian, no matter how bad you think your English accent is, it'll never be worse than Keanu Reeves in Dracula
or Dick van Dyke in Mary Poppins
Or Winona Ryder.
..and yet his mother is from Essex.
or Kevin Costner in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves
Or really Keanu in anything that requires acting...
I'm not British, but AFAIK British acting schools require actors to learn and train speaking in an American accent.
Nope.
First thing I saw Andrew Lincoln in was called "this life", from the mid nineties, and I can definitely recommend watching it
Americans not knowing people that aren’t American. That is a truly shocking turn of events.
18:37 US people always seem to find it astonishing that actors can learn different accents. And I think this is because, in the UK, most of those actors who's names people in the US know, spend years at Uni or RADA learning their craft. For part of my life I was a voice coach at the state theatre. And really one can learn to speak all kinds of accents... and US accents are very easily learnt. There are so many languages with sounds which don't exist in English. But US English has none of those, your mouth, teeth and cheeks doqn't have to learn any of them and you can get away with drawling vowels in a different way and... Bob's yer Uncle.
An Ozzie accent is slightly more difficult because they turn vowels into diphthongs!! (Kinda two sounds for every vowel.)
Hugh Laurie as an american was very odd for me growing up with him doing comedy acting
George Washington was English, he just learned the accent, you have to rewrite history.
There's so many Brits who play American characters that I'm usually not fazed anymore when I find out.
But an American who can play a Brit or Australian well. They're much rarer and to me much more impressive.
I feel like most people know Kate Winslet is English, but did you know she also does a fantastic Aussie accent? Check out the movie The Dressmaker, which also has Hugo Weaving, another actor known for his American speaking roles but is not American.
Maybe that's the reason why they are actors and actrices, they get well enough paid to
deliver a proper job.
We have a lot of talented actors from a wee island 😊
I'm Italian, so I'm not for a side against the other.
But there's a thing I noted about British actors. They usually trained to be actor on a stage in theatre, with live performances and a lot of hard work, because on a stage you can't repeat a scene as in a film.
Then they went to BBC or movies.
The difference in habits and abilities is astonishing and it seems recognizable even in an American movie, where with rare exceptions, actors are used to try more times the same scene.
In Italy there are kinda two different schools between actor for theater and actor for tv or cinema. The difference in performance is always visible when they're on screen.
In Greece it's only theatre school for actors.
Stage work has long been as important as film or TV for British actors. In America they preferred to pigeon hole actors, so they would be less likely to cast a actor if they did a lot of Stage or TV work. Its why star trek got a Canadian kirk rather than the American pike as Jeffrey hunter declined to return for a second pilot as he wanted to do films instead, but tragically his career was cut short by a car crash.
Australia the same think Hugh Jackman
There are some great Italian actors/actresses as well and not just the well known Sophia Loren and Gina Lollobrigida
@HeroyamSlava-g3yMy favourite is Toni Servillo.
Check out Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster. The poshest of the posh.
2 surry born lads playing spiderman 😮😅
It doesntr surprise me that Brits can do the best accents... when we are kids we mimic our mates accents to take the piss... we learn accents young.
The reason you get a lot of British actors doing American accents is because the UK has world class acting schools, and they more or less train you how to learn accents. American actors less often get the formal training so they're less likely to be able to do it- but a few absolutely do good British accents. The main trick is to get an accent coach and to actually practice.
Meryl Streep did a great performance as British Prime Minister Margret Thatcher....so it goes both ways and she won an Oscar for it. In fact the following year she present the Oscar to Daniel D Lewis for Lincoln.....lol
Keep in mind there is no such thing as a British accent. There's hundreds, every 20 miles you drive anywhere in the UK will have unique distinct accents. Some of my older siblings don't even sound the same as me because my parents moved like 5 miles away when I was young lol
Yes about 90 percent of actor's or singer's are from everywhere else in the world NOT America. 2025 and Americans still have no clue.
The guy you know as House, is hilarious in Blackadder.
Oh you HAVE to dig deeper into Hugh Laurie!! Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, his blues albums....
No life is complete without them
Jeeves and Wooster was so good back in the day.
and his book
Hugh Laurie is best friends with Stephen Fry.
As many British actors played in UK shows, shown in Europe or watching BBC in the Netherlands, we know Brits playing in US movies and shows.
It was a Canadian that started Superman. Not an American.
So Lincoln, Superman, Spiderman, Batman, are all British actors. Oh the irony. :)
I was _really_ hoping that there would be some clips of Hugh Laurie from Blackadder or A Bit of Fry and Laurie.
Not just the accent that is different, the characters could not be more different from House.
Have a look at how many Brits were in Band of Bothers! More than half of the speaking parts. Damian Lewis who played Dick Winters has a starring role and is from London.
It makes me laugh how so many American superheroes are played by British actors-Ioan Gruffund as Mr Fantastic, Charlie Cox as Daredevil, Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr Strange, Jamie Bell as The Thing, Aaron Taylor Johnson as Kick Ass, Quicksilver and Kraven the Hunter, Tom Hardy as Venom, and loads more.... but then Thor comes around, calling for a lot of English accents and they cast an Australian as Thor, and Americans as his mother, Fandral and Sif.
* Derelict Fumblecatch
Plus odin played by Sir Anthony Hopkins, Welsh.
Serious actors end up playing silly marvel rubbish. For money.
Robert Pattinson also played Batman, and Gary Oldman played Commissioner Gordon.
@mehallica666 Na that wasn’t Garry Oldman. I‘m sure that Garry Oldman isn’t even a real person but something like a conglomerate of different actors. 😉
At some point he took speaking classes to get his original accent back.
The thing is, the Brits have traditionally had fewer work options as they are coming up (please excuse the wording) as a result, they have to be able to do adverts, stage, tv nd movies... Comedy, drama, etc... Sing, dance, etc... Basically, they have to be able to do it all... I saw one British actress (whose name I don't know) who appeared on my TV screen within a week. A regency period movie, a modern Canadian tv series, a Russian action movie, Scottish RomCom movie, and a Brit female detective show. She was amazing, she just disappeared into each role... Took me a while to realise it was the same person.
I knew all of them were British, but then I think I've seen all of them performing in their original British in several movies. Another good one James McAvoy! I LOVE him in his Scottish natural accent.
Andrew Lincoln really got me, after 5 seasons of twd i heard an interview
It’s called acting, trickery and pretence are crafted into a performance. Accent, by sophisticated voice coaches that dissect language to produce a good likeness to the character the actor is portraying.
Not directly accent related, but supposedly during the filming of Marathon Man Dustin Hoffman was into method acting, ahead of a scene where he was supposed to be exhausted he didn't sleep for a couple of nights. Apparently during the shoot Laurence Olivier, a great of British stage and screen, leaned over and said to Dustin, "Dear boy, have you considered just acting?"
The point being you're an actor, you're supposed to play a role, if that requires an accent then learn to do it.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Very talented in the arts are the Brits
Check out "A Bit of Fry and Laurie", especially the "What's your name" sketch.
My favourite is still the Sleeper Agent sketch. "Mr Dalliard! We've been activated!"
@TheDarkestSmurf "Mr Dalliard! I've gone peculiar now!", but for me it's the barber shop and the bar scene that take the cake
I loved "Jeeves & Wooster". So funny, perfect roles for them both.
THE ORIGINAL SUPERMAN FILMS
Like many quintessentially American films, these were filmed in the UK. Also most of Star Wars films were largely filmed in the UK, hence so many of the actors are British such as Obi Wan Kenobi (both actors), C-3PO and Darth Vader (both body and ghost actors), most bit parts and Empire generals etc.
us brits have been performing plays with actors for a thousand years, culminating in the 16th century with Shakespeare and his ilk. back then people crowded around the performers and many were armed with rotten fruit. if a play was not very good or the crowd didn't like the acting, they let rip. the thing is, the acting profession is deeply ingrained in British culture along with the theatre tradition and this has led to a refining of the art you don't necessarily see in other countries. we were performing "soap operas" in the 17th century. i'm not saying we're the only good actors but British actors are pretty good overall.
btw, my favourite british actor versus accent story is Emily Blunt's continuous effort to stop her children speaking with an American one. lol.
Andrew Lincoln's real name is Andrew James Clutterbuck!!
Had a teacher back in the 70's called Mr Clutterbuck..He looked a bit like Jeff Lynne out of E.L.O.
Kate Winslet is one of the best at Australian accents
Hi Ian, look up on Daniel Day-Lewis, one of the best actors ever. A chamelion if ever there was - from "my left foot" to "the last of the mohicans" etc. I always had to take a double take or only realised when the credits rolled that it was the same actor. One of a kind.
The surprise at Hugh Laurie being English is always wild to me , I know him as a quintessential English gentleman, household name and British national treasure for the best part of two decades prior to being cast in house
The amount of Brits doing the most iconic American superhero roles is craaaazzy
We do you best. There’s a reason why theY cast Brits.
Brits see a lot of US TV from a very young age. Most kids can do a passable US accent. My son could impersonate Ninja Turtles, Bert and Ernie etc by the time he was 4.
Daniel day Lewis, Gary Oldman, Christian Bale all British
Hugh Laurie was great in Jeeves & Wooster.
Worth checking out.
First time hearing Gillian Anderson on a chat show, after years of watching X-Files shocked me. She's very posh English.
It's not a 'fake accent' it's called acting LOL😂🤣
Bob Hope was born in Eltham, Kent, in 1903
13:40 I know Daniely Day-Lewis from "My beautiful Laundrette", a movie I loved when it came out 1985 . It was his first major role.
There are many actors even from non English speaking countries in US or not?
We're amongst you now....and you'll never see us coming, mwahaha!
For me, Hugh Laurie, as House, is the ultimate.
It could be that in Britain we hear so many American films and programmes that we are familiar with the American accent from early on.
@iwrocker , how about the opposite? American actors who tricked Brits with their fake accents , could be a short list 😂
Hollywood is basically 99% non-Americans.
good thing for hollywood !
Because they are multi talented and can speak different
Check out Hugh Laurie in ”Jeeves” and ”Black Adder”.
He’s hilarious
Please can Americans stop talking about a British accent. It doesn't exist. There are dozens of accents in England. Lots in Scotland, several in bilingual Wales, and in Northern Ireland.
If you haven't watched A Bit of Fry and Laurie by Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie you're missing out!
Also Jeeves & Wooster.
American accents are easiest i think.irish travelers are difficult or new Zealand is very specific. It's becouse music and movies
I worked in an emergency service control centre for 40 years in Northern Ireland. Look at how small an area that covers. There are at least six significantly different accents in that small ( compared to USA) area. As a resource dispatcher it made for a really interesting and challenging job!!
Northern Irish accents fascinate me.
Darth Vader was played by David Prowse, and Englishman, James Earl Jones was only the voice!
Ian (great first name, btw 😉), if you want to have a total brain fart on Hugh Laurie’s (House) accent in everyday, watch Blackadder, particularly “Blackadder Goes Forth.” Laurie plays the brilliantly stupid British Army Officer.
His best British role though was as Bertie Wooster in Jeeves & Wooster. 😊
@eddhardy1054 didn't he kind of reprise that character in the prince royal (or what ever he was) in Blackadder 3 was it?
@JoriDiculous Yeah the portrayal was kinda similar only Bertie was better written and funnier...which is what you'd expect if you compare Ben Elton to P. G. Wodehouse.
The thing that blew my socks off, was finding out that Dick Van Dyke was not a Cockney when he played in Mary Poppins 😮😲😳😉
My Texan cousins couldn't believe Bob Hoskins was a Cockney and not a Noo Yoiker when they visited back in 1994 when Bob Hoskins did the BT adverts.
"It's good to talk".
@mehallica666 'Appy tawkin' tawkin', 'appy tawk! Tawk abaaaht fings you loik to-o-o do ...
Half the cast of Warfare 2025. A movie about US SEALS, plays by Brits
Let’s face it, Americans can’t do accents from other countries but they expect actors from other countries to do American accents, in fact many directors insist on it. In the series JAG, they had an actor pretending to be Australian, but to our ears, he failed. I had to look at his history to discover he was British doing a mediocre Aussie accent, but Americans can’t do the Aussie accent, it just sounds East London which is partly the Cockney accent, and nowhere near Australian. One exception is Brian Jordan Alvarez, who practised the Aussie accent by watch Australian TV shows and mimicking us. He fooled us all because his Aussie was perfect! But he’s the only one so far, all the rest aren’t even close.
Renee zwelleger did Bridget Jones brilliantly
O don't think many of them have tried.
I was up for an American accent audition and to perfect my US accent, I watched Friends and mimicked Rachel and Monica over and over.
I got the gig.
BTW - IMDB is also British, I watched a good documentary on how it came about.
Your such a likeable dude. Great reaction 👍
As an avid movie/tv show lover I knew pretty much all of them were British but didn't really think that the average person who goes to watch Man of Steel or Spider Man has no idea that the actor playing the main character is British.
Why should they know?
On Christian Bale's Batman trilogy, Commissioner Gordon played by Gary Oldman & Hardy as Bane were another 2 British actors & of course the joker was Australian. Michael Cane was playing a Brit so I don't think that counts & I'm sure nobody would be surprised to learn he's English.
Dick Van Dyke really fooled everyone with his British accent in Mary Poppins! 😂. His dancing and energy was brilliant though!
Yeah, he fooled noone.
Henry is also a major nerd in a good way! Plays Warhammer 40k, builds his own computers (and posts the building on YT), and almost lost the Superman role because he was running a raid on WoW!. 🤘
Superman - conceived of by a Canadian journalist/illustrator, and portrayed by an Englishman.
co-conceived! Because he had an american buddy called Siegel who came up with the idea, or did you forget?
Only one version of the character, George reeves played him first, along with Christopher reeve, Dean cain and others.
Gillian Anderson being a British always blew me away.