Yanks think its the only thing hes ever done, I saw an interview with Stephen Fry and Robert Downy Jr on Graham Norton and when Stephen talked about Hugh, RDJ asked Fry, "Oh you know Hugh do you", I recall thinking, You've no idea, Robert
Minor?? He did 8 seasons of 23 episodes per season. That's a huge landmark in any actor's career. Not to mention it probably earned him 100 times all of his other acting roles combined.
Christian Bale was born in Wales to English parents, who moved back to England, he doesn't speak with a Welsh accent, and doesn't consider himself Welsh. That clip of him is very clearly an English accent. They obviously didn't have a British fact checker when they put this compilation together. Btw, if you've ever seen Band of Brothers at least 4 of Easy Company are Brits, including the main charecter Dick Winter
Like Dave said, there's way more than 4. One of them grew up in the neighbourhood next to mine in Bradford, along with his sister who is also an actress.
You can hear Christian Bale at 13 years old speak in an English accent in Steven Spielberg’s 1987 film “Empire of the Sun” He played the lead character Jim, a young, privileged British boy who is separated from his parents and imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Such a brilliant movie!
Henry Cavill who played superman is also British. So is Dan Stevens, Alex pettyfer, Theo James, Nicholas Hoult, Dominic Cooper, Ralph Fiennes, Millie Bobby Brown, etc etc
11:24 Christian Bale was born in Wales to English parents and considers himself to be English. That is not a Welsh accent by the way, it’s more London East End Cockney!
It sure as heck is!!! When I first heard him speak years ago I could only imagine what it must have been like when he and Michael Caine were together shootin’ the breeze. Lol.
@@mhm8922 I had only seen him in Empire of the Sun where he had his posh accent, and next was in Reign of Fire which was a stark contrast and I thought he was only using it for the character until later movies/interviews 🤪
American actors Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer played very convincing English rockers in This Is Spinal Tap. Especially Harry Shearer. I really thought he was English
Some other British actors include.....Idris Elba, Orlando Bloom, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Cavill (Superman) Tom Holland, Tom Hiddleston, Damian Lewis, Daniel Day Lewis, Rachel weisz, Emilia Clarke, Gemma Arterton, Kate Beckinsale, Emily Blunt, Felicity Jones and Kate Winslet to name just a few.
@@DeanMoxley87 Because the ones he lists have done American accents in American productions and yours have not you fool they are local soap performers 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A city called, "Staffordshire"???that’s a county!!!! … Stafford is a city … but he was born in Stoke on Trent …. Famous for pottery … Wedgwood …. Known as, "The Potteries ….
@@duncbee I'm sure I read somewhere that he was only born in Wales, his parents were English and he grew up in England. But I'm definitely not an accent expert - although I love Welsh accents - so there could be a Welsh twang I'm not hearing. :)
Bale doesn’t have a Welsh accent. He has an English accent, because he’s English (his words, not mine). He was born in Haverfordwest, Wales, but his parents are English and he grew up in England. His family left Wales when he was 2.
If you want to see just how British Hugh Laurie is you might want to check out Jeeves and Wooster, a British comedy drama made in the 1990s but set in the early 1930s. Laurie plays an incompetent aristocrat while Stephen Fry plays his valet, the gentleman who always rescues him from every difficult situation. It's a very enjoyable show.
Also Cary Grant (real name Archibald Leach) Errol Flynn was Australian. Boris Karloff was English (William Henry Pratt) Peter Cushion, Christopher Lee, James McAvoy, Dominic Purcell, Kiefer Sutherland
@@johnburns4017 Then there's the more recent The Batman, filmed in Glasgow, Scotland, with another English Batman (Robert Pattison) and an Irish Penguin (Colin Farrell).
Gillian Anderson moved to the UK when she was about 3 then moved back to the states around 11, so a lot of her formative years were in London which is why her accent is very natural 😊
Hi, Damien Lewis has done many roles with an American accent, including Homeland. My favourite Andrew Lincoln role was Egg in This Life, his 1st tv role. A brilliant programme, it was like Friends for grown ups. An amazing cast, that have all went into to bigger things.
I loved This Life. I was so like Millie but wanted to be more like Anna. Still put the theme tune on cuz it takes me back to when I was young and gorgeous 😊
When I first saw House it was such a massive shock seeing Hugh Laurie with a flawless American accent. Especially as I was so used to him in Blackadder when he spoke in such a posh accent. Mind you he was humble when being praised for it as he said as we’re exposed to so much American tv and films, it’s not hard to imitate the accent. I was already a fan as he is superb in Blackadder but when I saw him in House I realised just how talented he was. Him and his best mate Stephen Fry are national treasures.
So true, the cast in blackadder, especially my favourite series blackadder goes forth was incredible, Rowan atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, plus appearances from Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson 😀. Purely my opinion but was right up there with only fools and horses and Dad's Army
@@markdevonshire6052 Yeh definitely up there with Only Fools for sure. Rik Mayall was a force of nature. Only in two episodes but no-one who has seen them will ever forget them.
Fry and Laurie were perfect as Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. Americans who only know Hugh from "House" would get a huge surprise to see him play an upper-class English twit .
Tom Hardy has read the Bedtime Story on Cbeebies a couple of times... Fortunately for me, my youngest grandson gives me the perfect excuse to sit and watch as Tom makes me, and a few million other women go all soft and mushy ..😅
There's a new accent every 5 miles or so in the UK. Our accents are so varied that we can not only pinpoint what British county someone is from but the city in that county and sometimes even the specific suburb/area of that city. My best friend is from a village 7 miles away from my street. Her accent is massively different to mine. She does 'tidy' up her accent more to accommodate us townies but when I go to her village it's like going to a foreign land 😂
I'm stunned you didn't know Christian Bale was British. You should watch Empire under the sun. It's an incredible film about a child pow in china captured by the Japanese during WW2, he has a British accent in that and must only be around 13. Also Christian Bale doesn't have a welsh accent at all. It's certainly more generic English sounding
Or more recently, if you watch Le Mans (I think it was called Ford vs. Ferrari in America) - he plays the race driver Ken Miles and puts on a pretty decent Brummie accent.
I never watched The Walking Dead, but I always remember Andrew Lincoln from a British tv show called Afterlife. He played a university lecturer, and Lesley Sharp played a medium haunted by her 'gift'.
The most amazing thing about Hugh Laurie is that he played Bertie Wooster a posh 1920s British playboy comedy with an amazing aristocratic accent. You can't get a more British accent.
Daniel Day-Lewis, Damian Lewis are two who you have left out. You need to get a better clip selection to view as some of these people have not even heard of.
Yeah, that channel’s research wasn’t the best. I think they looked him up on Wikipedia and assumed that his place of birth meant that his accent had to be Welsh. Also that bit about someone being from the “town” of Staffordshire.
You can't be born in one place and be a different nationality from another place that's not even possible. if you are born in a certain place that's your nationality it has nothing to do with where your parents are from or how you think of yourself its actually where you were literally born, that's how it is in law. He's only got his English accent as he began living there from the age of 2 which is young enough to pick that accent up plus hearing his parents speak, but it does NOT make him English.
@@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo A person born in Wales doesn't make him English either. You can not change where you were born, it's on you birthday certificate. You can only change gender and your name. He says he's English as he grew up there it's all he's known, still doesn't make him actually English. I can say I'm cat doesn't make me one lol. So your example is wrong lol. It's sounds like it offends you that he was born in Wales.
@@jaxcoss5790mostly a generic British accent rather then regional ones though. When do you hear US actors put on a Geordie or Scouse accent or black country? Lol. Never really. Yet UK actors can imitate a vast range of US accents from heavy southern drawl to thick NY etc
Sounded fine to me, great to have you back on, should definitely check out blackadder (goes forth, is best in my opinion) the difference in hugh laurie from his character in house just shows the variation and talent he has
Will have to check and see if that's one we can do, as I know you've mentioned it in the past as well. :) Hope you and your family have an awesome weekend, Mark!
@@reactingtomyroots Blackadder (except series 1) is regarded by many Brits as the greatest British comedy of all time, so you certainly should check it out mate, even if just for fun
@@sarahbetts2219 Lauren Cohan was actually born in the US and spent her childhood up until age 13 in New Jersey. After age 13 her family moved to the UK (where her mom is from), and that is why when you hear her speak in interviews, her accent kind of flip flops between American and British.
Im also really impressed with the guy hosting the video you're watching, for pronouncing "Staffordshire" properly, as Staffordsher (no hard R, lol) and not Staffordsheer or Staffordshyer
You need to see some of the Blackadder comedy series to see Hugh Laurie in his Englishness. Tom Hardy played both of the London gangster twins in a film The Krays. Christian Bale began as a child actor in the film Tears of the Sun, in captivity under the Japanese in WW2.
three amazing American performances from British actors are Millie Bobby Brown, Joseph Quinn and Jamie Campbell Bower. Eleven, Eddie and Henry Creel/Vecna from Stranger Things
Naomi watts, Naomi Harris , Damian Lewis ( Band of brothers, Homeland ) Rebecca Hall ,Will Poulter, Matthew Rhys, Stephen Moyer, Mischa Barton, Aaron Taylor Johnson , Arizona Ahmed, Alfred Enoch,
Hi Steve and Lindsay Hugh Laurie is actually one of the new wave comedians who came out of the Cambridge University set and first started in the Blackadder comedies of the late 1980s he was one of the British middle classes who changed UK comedy he left Cambridge with the likes of Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry and Rik Mayal, all of which starred in Blackadder. There are actually loads of actors and actresses who've started out acting in the UK then after a few successes fly to the USA because the Hollywood film business has more opportunities than the UK film industry.
Not completely accurate. Hugh Laurie started in UK TV comedy, with "A little bit of Fry & Laurie", followed by "Jeeves & Wooster". He actually rowed for Cambridge in the 1980 Boat Race! There' a "Hidden" joke about that in "Black Adder goes Forth".
@@nigellusby8256 I was going to mention Fry & Laurie. I think Stephen Fry is fairly well known in America so Steve & Lindsay should check out A Bit Of Fry & Laurie.
I would recommend watching Blackadder goes forth, in regards to Hugh Laurie, it's a WW1 comedy series where he stars alongside Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson
Teachers was filmed at an old school in Bristol that was used as an arts and community education centre. They would be leaving from filming just as I was arriving for rehearsals with Bristol Opera. @@peterdavy6110
You should totally check out some Fry and Laurie on the channel. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, both such smart and funny people and burst onto the UK comedy scene in the .... 80s and then were in shows such as Black Adder with Rowan Atkinson (another person you should look into as he's done so much more than just Mr Bean).
@@TanyaRando I know , but so many outside of the UK have no idea of his other work. Not the nine o'clock news with Mel smith, Griff Rhys-,Jones and Pamela Stephenson. Awesome
@@chelliebellie4443 I wasn’t a huge fan of the first series of blackadder, but when the writers changed it was a big hit with me. I loved not the 9 o’clock news, loved Mel Smith. I even love Rowan when he talks to uni students and conferences, political stuff etc. I’m a big Monty Python fan, The Goons, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. Absolutely loved Spikes war memoirs etc.
@@Venti1388 it was very appealing to children. Also as there was hardly any dialogue it didn't need translating. I lived in Costa Rica, Taiwan, the Middle East - all the kids knew Mr Bean and enjoyed him. Hence the movies and cartoon.
Its probably the proximity to different accents for us thats gives us a better ear for them and ability to spot a fake. I will hear multiple accents on a daily basis. Its kinda like listening to AI, there are certain things that stand out to a real person.
You know something, one day, you will be going about and minding your own business, then someone will shout "CUT!" and you will find out that you were actually just a role in a story being played by Gary Oldman... That's how great an actor he is.
James Marsters that played Spike off Buffy the vampire slayer had an amazing British accent as Anthony Head that played Giles on the show made him talk properly for it. I didn’t realise he was American till I saw an interview. That’s the best British accent I’ve heard from any American actor
@@akaped It got better but some inaccurate colloquialisms slipped in after Anthony Head left, like when Spike tells someone to "W*nk off!", as in, go away. 😂
I was thinking that too. I was so convinced that when he flubbed the occasional word, I'd blame it on the producers making him say it wrong. Then there's Gillian Anderson, an American who was raised in England, and who legitimately has two accents. If she's interviewed in the UK, she's English, if she's interviewed in the US, it's American.
One underconsidered advantage that (most) British actors have over American ones is the relative vowel inventory of British vs American English. Both have relatively high numbers of vowels, but British English has more: approximately 16 versus approximately 20. Americans doing British accents often mess this up as two vowels which are the same in the US may be articulated differently here. There’s also a more complicated prosody system in British English with more variety of syllable lengths, which often trips up Americans (e.g. one, two, three, and four are all distinctly different lengths in British and Australian English but more or less the same in the US). Going the other way, British actors can struggle with remembering to not mutate most unstressed vowels to schwa (short, unstressed ‘uh’ sound). It’s often a dead giveaway.
I think, in recent times, the voice coaching from American to various Brit accents has improved. Most notably, for me, the work done on several actors in the Lord of The Ring's movies. Particularly the guys who played Frodo and Sam! Also, _way_ back in the 70's Jill Townsend as Elizabeth Poldark, produced a flawless English accent!
5:15 'Born and bred in a city called Staffordshire, England'. Isn't Staffordshire a county? Would be a bit like saying 'This actor was actually born in a city called Texas, USA'
5:06 As far as I can tell, Hugh Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, one of the larger towns IN the county of Staffordshire (the county town of which is Stafford, hence the name).
Stoke-on-Trent is a city, not a town. It was formed by amalgamating 6 towns together: Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent (note the difference between it and the city name), Fenton, and Longton. The nearby town of Newcastle-under-Lyme refused to join, even though there is not any apparent countryside between it and the city. It was formed in 1910, and took its name from the town where the railway station was placed. Its main shopping centre is placed in the town of Hanley.
Although Stafford is not a city, and most of Staffordshire is in the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield. Captain Smith of the RMS Titanic was born in Hanley (part of Stoke on Trent), but his memorial sculpture is in Lichfield because Hanley is in the Diocese of Lichfield.
@@jerry2357used to be a big mural of him on the potteries shopping centre staircase from car park in Hanley for absolutely years. As a kid really stood out.
he also became great friends with the guy that played hannibal, when they both starred in the 'king arthur' film with clive owen and ray winston(i think keira knightly was in it aswell...)
Watch 28 days later, please... its the best horror movie to come out of Britain. Its also one of the inspirations behind the walking dead if i remember
@@vaseline69 - Yes, I'm sure that ,"This Life" a bit of a dram-com was Andrew's initial main break into TV acting on BBC2 (1980's?) - I think I was only in my 20's about then - and it was where he was called Egg, and lived in an upper flat with 3-4 others who may have been studying at Uni, or were solicitors, or something of the kind . . . it's all that I've actually seen him in really and probably why I can remember it more . . .???
Everytime I hear a comment about American actors attempting a British accent brings on a severe PTSD as memories of Dick Van Dyke springs straight back into my mind.......Aaaaagh!
What's interesting is nobody actually complains about Dick Van Dyke's accent as the senior Mr Dawes though either in the Original Mary Poppins or the younger Mr Dawes in the new Mary Poppins returns. It was his cockney accent that wasn't great. His elderly RP accent apparently did fool lots of people.
Also 2 from iconic US shows Idris Elba (The Wire) Damian Lewis(Band of Brothers/Homeland) Kate Winslett (Mare of Eastown) or movies Daniel Day-Lewis in anything Michael Sheen played Nixon (he's Welsh)
@@Bikergirl_40 Michael Sheen may be a good actor but he's also a massive douchebag. Pity, since I discovered that, everything he's in is ruined for me. I'm utterly unable to separate the art from the artist, which sucks.
I'm from Boston UK (middle East side). Where the Pilgrim fathers got put in prison (the prison is still here, Guild hall) for the 1st time they tried to leave for America. I live 2 miles from NEW YORK UK.
You two need to watch “Empire of the Sun”, as soon as you can find it! Christian Bale was 13 in that movie, and I saw it before he ever left the UK, so his move to the US wasn’t until he was an adult. Before he filmed Batman Begins, he accepted the lead role in The Machinist, which had us all rather worried for his health! So far, so good, but it wouldn’t surprise me if some side effects from making that film hit him in later life.
Hi. I love your reactions. As I left the UK when I was very young and recently returned, a lot of what you react to is also new and interesting for me. I therefore found this video quite difficult as I couldn't hear properly what was being said on the video you were watching. I personally would prefer that you guys and the video are at the sane volume, and that you pause when you want to comment. That way we get to enjoy the video as well as your reaction. Hope that makes sense. Love you guys. 💜🤗
The UK rarely remakes US shows, they just show the US show. And Brits are more interested in working in the US than vice versa. for some reason. Ker-ching! As for the Batman films, most of the actors in those films were British, as was the director, Christopher Nolan. The butler, Michael Caine, the police chief, Gary Oldman, the crime boss, Tom Wilkinson, Liam Neeson (British/Irish), while the Wayne enterprise CEO (Rutger Hauer) was Dutch
Loads of British stars who I think should have been on the list but weren't - such as Idris Elba who was in The Wire. As a child, Andrew Lincoln lived about three miles from my home town in East Yorkshire 😊
The problem with putting Idris Elba on the list would be that apart from the Wire (where agreed his American accent was incredible) the majority of his roles have been with his natural accent. So don’t expect anyone has forgotten he’s British unless they’ve only seen the Wire
@@johnadams9314 As far as I'm aware, Hugh Laurie throughout his career has only spoken in his English accent and he's only played one American character in House so I don't get your point about Idris as this video is obviously aimed at Americans and they will only know Hugh from House!
@@iangt1171 the difference is that most Americans only know Hugh Laurie from House, not A Bit of Fry and Laurie or his Bertie Wooster, but they know Idris Elba from the Wire and his many other subsequent (possibly even higher profile roles) where he’s used his natural accent.
If you keep in mind that an actor is only using his/her selected accent for only a few hours a day when working, falling back into their native language is not much of demand to make. Also they are only using the assumed language when working, not at home with family and friends.
Awesome reaction guys I knew most of these as Brits but I am 🇬🇧 myself, there are a few Americans I’ve heard with very convincing British accents, can only think of one off the top of my head Glenn Howerton nailed it in an episode of always sunny
I'm a big fan of The Walking Dead. My son used to work at Leicester Square Odeon where they have all the premieres. I'm not sure which film was showing, but Andrew Lincoln asked my son if he could hold his tickets for 10 minutes while he went to collect his party. Not being a fan of The Walking Dead, my son didn't know who he was, so his response was "No, I'm going off shift in a minute". I was mortified at such unacceptable behaviour 🤣 Another member of staff immediately recognised him and stepped in to 'hold' the tickets and save the day. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje who plays Adebisi in Oz and Mr Eko in Lost comes from my small town in Essex, UK. I was friends with his older sister. He used to dragging behind us from school. Something similar to The Walking Dead here? You need to watch Cockneys v Zombies 😆
She considers it her natural accent. She's said so in interviews, and she also considers herself American. She chose to actually adopt a Mid-western accent after she got teased at school for having a British one.
Hugh Laurie is going to be on this isn’t he? Most of the uk barely noticed House and still see him as from Blackadder and the absolutely amazing A Bit of Fry And Laurie from the late 80s and early 90s. Oh and Jeeves and Wooster of course.
The audio is so much better👍. Gary Oldman who played Jim Gordon in Batman is also British. That means Batman, Bane and Jim Gordon are played by British actors. Another great video. Best wishes to you both ❤
Are you thinking of Afterlife ? The series set in Bristol and he’s a psychiatrist/ professor at the University ……and a woman ( Lesley Sharp) who sees dead people , including HIS dead son and he’s a TRUE sceptic of people like her ……becomes his patient ? Very brilliant series , acting off the scale superb , dark , moving , emotional and SO good , I bought the dvd box set .!!! 👋
Great video and love watching you guys react. You may be surprised that many of the main cast in The Walking Dead are Actually British. Us Brits don’t necessarily have much to be proud about our country these day but for a tiny little island our contribution to the world of movies, music & arts in general is unrivalled. Keep up the great work and keep well. 😀🙏
'started to dream in American'.....like when I learnt French, I stopped using my own voice until I was actually thinking in French for weeks at home. Best way to pass the exams!
You definitely need to check out some Blackadder (series 3 and 4), Jeeves and Wooster and especially Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry’s sketch show A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Many UK actors are great with accents. I wonder why so many men were listed? Kelly Riley from Yellowstone is brilliant as is Michael Sheen. I would love to see a video of US actors doing a British accent!
Daniel Day lewis is an irish citizen though,brought up in england,but he has sole irish citizenship and lives in county wicklow.He have dual citizenship but its the irish he uses.
In relation to the Daniel Sharman section, I'm from the UK and have also never heard of him but I can definitely relate to what he said. After moving to Spain in 1999, by 2001 all my dreams were regularly conducted in Spanish 😂👍🏾
Seems like Hollywood must have plenty of kettles , Hugh Lawrie was the biggest surprise as he was known for light comedy , with Stephen Fry and in Blackadder with a plummy upper class accent . He's also a pianist and has a great blues voice . Staffordshire is an English County , Gillian Anderson , Meryl Streep and Renee Zelwigger in Bridget Jones come to mind with British accents .
Gillian Anderson isn't really either American or British, she's both. Spent large chunks of her life in both countries and can switch between the accents natively.
11:00 ..... And commissioner Gordon is played by one of the finest actors of all time, British Gary Oldman. I'm guessing you know Sir Michael caine is British too and plays Alfred pennyworth, the butler. To top it off, the batman director is Brit Christopher Nolan 😂
For me, Tom Hardy playing Charles Bronson, and the fact that he sat with Charles Bronson, to learn more about him to perfect the role, and when Charles Bronson himself saw the movie and said "that's me" suggests he is one of England's finest actors..
I wish the original video gave you more of the British accent clips, they're too fleeting for you to hear. It's funny being British knowing these actors first of all here in the UK, with the exception of Andrew Garfield who was a shock to me too.
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watch the magic film , plus bale has a London accent not Welsh
what gillian Andersons scully, xfiles
The actress that plays Maggie in the walking dead is Scottish
There were quite a few British actors in TWD.
Risk, Grimes, The Governor, Maggie, Jesus, Alpha, Morgan, Yumiko, Jadis
It's weird, because here, House is such a minor part of Hugh Laurie's career.
Yanks think its the only thing hes ever done, I saw an interview with Stephen Fry and Robert Downy Jr on Graham Norton and when Stephen talked about Hugh, RDJ asked Fry, "Oh you know Hugh do you", I recall thinking, You've no idea, Robert
he will always be bertie wooster to me :)
Hugh Laurie always has me cracking up as the Prince of Wales in Black Adder III
Hugh Laurie's best part was in Blackadder.
Minor?? He did 8 seasons of 23 episodes per season. That's a huge landmark in any actor's career. Not to mention it probably earned him 100 times all of his other acting roles combined.
Christian Bale was born in Wales to English parents, who moved back to England, he doesn't speak with a Welsh accent, and doesn't consider himself Welsh. That clip of him is very clearly an English accent. They obviously didn't have a British fact checker when they put this compilation together. Btw, if you've ever seen Band of Brothers at least 4 of Easy Company are Brits, including the main charecter Dick Winter
Way more than 4 most of them are British as it was filmed in the uk. Most of the casting was done in the uk
They could have used Matthew Rhys as an example of an actual Welsh accent doing a great American accent😂
@@ticketyboo2456 the Americans was a fantastic show
Like Dave said, there's way more than 4.
One of them grew up in the neighbourhood next to mine in Bradford, along with his sister who is also an actress.
You can hear Christian Bale at 13 years old speak in an English accent in Steven Spielberg’s 1987 film “Empire of the Sun” He played the lead character Jim, a young, privileged British boy who is separated from his parents and imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Such a brilliant movie!
Henry Cavill who played superman is also British. So is Dan Stevens, Alex pettyfer, Theo James, Nicholas Hoult, Dominic Cooper, Ralph Fiennes, Millie Bobby Brown, etc etc
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Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland
11:24 Christian Bale was born in Wales to English parents and considers himself to be English. That is not a Welsh accent by the way, it’s more London East End Cockney!
It sure as heck is!!! When I first heard him speak years ago I could only imagine what it must have been like when he and Michael Caine were together shootin’ the breeze. Lol.
@@mhm8922 I had only seen him in Empire of the Sun where he had his posh accent, and next was in Reign of Fire which was a stark contrast and I thought he was only using it for the character until later movies/interviews 🤪
American actors Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer played very convincing English rockers in This Is Spinal Tap. Especially Harry Shearer. I really thought he was English
great point. they really nailed it in that movie, but I think Christopher Guest is part English and lived in the UK for years.
Some other British actors include.....Idris Elba, Orlando Bloom, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Cavill (Superman) Tom Holland, Tom Hiddleston, Damian Lewis, Daniel Day Lewis, Rachel weisz, Emilia Clarke, Gemma Arterton, Kate Beckinsale, Emily Blunt, Felicity Jones and Kate Winslet to name just a few.
To be fair, I've never heard Tom Hiddleston do an American accent in any of his roles so that one isn't surprising
@@Thezion1111 Oh ok i thought he did some American roles. Actually Tom Hiddleston did play American singer Hank Williams in the movie I saw the light.
You've basically run of a list of British Actors, why not include Gail Platt, Dot Cotton ?
@@DeanMoxley87 Sorry, i should have! 🙄
@@DeanMoxley87 Because the ones he lists have done American accents in American productions and yours have not you fool they are local soap performers 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ha Staffordshire is a county!! As for Tom Hardy, cor what a man!! 😁🇬🇧🏴
Aye, that jumped out... the city of Staffordshire 😂😂😂
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I remember the sign en route to the towers of Alton 😁
That was funny!
Yes I also winced.
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Christian Bale does not have a Welsh accent! It's a generic non-posh Southern English accent.
Gareth Bake plays foitball for Wakes (!)
A city called, "Staffordshire"???that’s a county!!!! … Stafford is a city … but he was born in Stoke on Trent …. Famous for pottery … Wedgwood …. Known as, "The Potteries ….
As my wife is Welsh but spent most of her life in Kent he does have Welsh twang to his accent.
@@duncbee I'm sure I read somewhere that he was only born in Wales, his parents were English and he grew up in England. But I'm definitely not an accent expert - although I love Welsh accents - so there could be a Welsh twang I'm not hearing. :)
True. He was born in Wales to English parents and has an English accent. Plus he states that he's English.
So many great British actors out there, it still boggles my brain why they cast Karl Urban (a Kiwi) as Billy Butcher in The Boys.
He certainly butchered the Cockney accent 😅
Cockneys butcher the accent too. @ianhowarth6799
Bale doesn’t have a Welsh accent. He has an English accent, because he’s English (his words, not mine). He was born in Haverfordwest, Wales, but his parents are English and he grew up in England. His family left Wales when he was 2.
If you want to see just how British Hugh Laurie is you might want to check out Jeeves and Wooster, a British comedy drama made in the 1990s but set in the early 1930s. Laurie plays an incompetent aristocrat while Stephen Fry plays his valet, the gentleman who always rescues him from every difficult situation. It's a very enjoyable show.
Or Blackadder, or a Bit of Fry & Laurie
Was about to say the same!
Or Blackadder the Third.
He was actually very good at being an aristocrat! 😂😂
If memory serves it ran for 4 series and won a lot of awards
Charlie Chaplin was British and so was Stan Laurel from Laurel and Hardy.
So was Bob Hope
Also Cary Grant (real name Archibald Leach)
Errol Flynn was Australian.
Boris Karloff was English (William Henry Pratt)
Peter Cushion, Christopher Lee, James McAvoy, Dominic Purcell, Kiefer Sutherland
@@LazmanarusPeter Cushing.
@@Lazmanarus Peter Cushion? sofa, so good.
@@ashleyhoward8926 JD's fave actor.
The whole Batman trilogy is full of British actors, directed by a Brit, (Christopher Nolan), and mostly made in UK with British crews.
Barman filmed mainly in Liverpool.
@@johnburns4017 Then there's the more recent The Batman, filmed in Glasgow, Scotland, with another English Batman (Robert Pattison) and an Irish Penguin (Colin Farrell).
@@johnburns4017 A lot was done at the old airship hangars at Cardington, Bedfordshire.
Colin Farrell is an Irish actor but he's not a British actor.
Gotham City Hall is St George's Hall in Liverpool.. You can see the number 10 bus stop in the foreground
Gillian Anderson is one of the only American actors who has been so successful at the British accent we forgot she was American.
Gillian Anderson moved to the UK when she was about 3 then moved back to the states around 11, so a lot of her formative years were in London which is why her accent is very natural 😊
She's a Scouser(Liverpudlian)
She talks with an American accent in American interviews, but in great Britain, she has a british accent.
I'm not kidding. It's weird.
Gillian is a special case - she is genuinely “bi-accented”. Because of her upbringing in the UK and Canada, neither of those accents is fake with her
@@sjb2471 she is a rare case where because of her upbringing she sounds equally natural doing both.
Andrew Lincoln started off playing a lawyer over 30 yes ago called This Life. And played a teacher in the comedy drama Teachers. !
Daniel Day-Lewis probably worth a mention
Daniel Day-Lewis is Irish.
@@vickytaylor9155 It says in his bio Daniel is an English Actor born in London.
@@vickytaylor9155 Nope, Sir Daniel Day Lewis is British, the Irish can not be awarded a Knighthood.
@@vickytaylor9155 He was Born and raised in London.
@@george-ev1dq They can actually, Bob Geldof got one.
Never seen Sons of Anarchy but I remember Charlie Hunnam from Queer As Folk over here about 25 years ago. He's done well for himself lol.
He definitely has haha
Auden Guillen also went along way.
He was brilliant in green street
Fantastic in The Gentleman
Hi, Damien Lewis has done many roles with an American accent, including Homeland. My favourite Andrew Lincoln role was Egg in This Life, his 1st tv role. A brilliant programme, it was like Friends for grown ups. An amazing cast, that have all went into to bigger things.
Loved that programme , most of the actors in THIS LIFE have gone on to play loads of different characters.
I loved This Life. I was so like Millie but wanted to be more like Anna. Still put the theme tune on cuz it takes me back to when I was young and gorgeous 😊
The Good Doctor actor Freddie Highmore is British too. Fantastic series 👏
Something similar to "The Walking Dead" in the UK?
Yes. It's called "The House of Lords".
😂😂😂
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@@summit7051 pmsl you’re not wrong hun x
When I first saw House it was such a massive shock seeing Hugh Laurie with a flawless American accent. Especially as I was so used to him in Blackadder when he spoke in such a posh accent.
Mind you he was humble when being praised for it as he said as we’re exposed to so much American tv and films, it’s not hard to imitate the accent.
I was already a fan as he is superb in Blackadder but when I saw him in House I realised just how talented he was.
Him and his best mate Stephen Fry are national treasures.
@@thomasfrost3087 hear hear
So true, the cast in blackadder, especially my favourite series blackadder goes forth was incredible, Rowan atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, plus appearances from Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson 😀. Purely my opinion but was right up there with only fools and horses and Dad's Army
@@markdevonshire6052 Yeh definitely up there with Only Fools for sure. Rik Mayall was a force of nature. Only in two episodes but no-one who has seen them will ever forget them.
It was a shock seeing him playing it straight for once, or was he ?
Fry and Laurie were perfect as Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. Americans who only know Hugh from "House" would get a huge surprise to see him play an upper-class English twit .
Tom Hardy could speak Vulcan and I’d still be swooning! 😍
Tom Hardy has read the Bedtime Story on Cbeebies a couple of times... Fortunately for me, my youngest grandson gives me the perfect excuse to sit and watch as Tom makes me, and a few million other women go all soft and mushy ..😅
😂
@@JoBrady-q8ponly time I enjoyed Jackanory 😜 and my kids are well past story time age 😉
He doesn’t need to speak…
@@dianedavid3052 yes, 🙌
The American actress who does a convincing British accent IMO is Renée Zellweger in Bridget Jones.
She adopted a false posh English accent.
@@emilymccartney1593 I wouldn't have called it false. Posh, yes, but not false.
All snobby accents are fake/false ..tell me what dialect it is ?
@@jennymichelle81 It's Received Pronunciation (RP)
Agreed! I was amazed to find she was American!
No It's just that Americans don't think that no one else or nothing else exists outside of America 😂
I’m shocked they didn’t include Idris Elba and his iconic performance in “The Wire”
Re accents, I recommend Bill Bryson's 'the mother tongue ' the UK has a ridiculous number of accents compared to the US.
There is over 20 accents in my home state of Vermont
There's a new accent every 5 miles or so in the UK. Our accents are so varied that we can not only pinpoint what British county someone is from but the city in that county and sometimes even the specific suburb/area of that city. My best friend is from a village 7 miles away from my street. Her accent is massively different to mine. She does 'tidy' up her accent more to accommodate us townies but when I go to her village it's like going to a foreign land 😂
Thanks for the suggestion! :)
I'm stunned you didn't know Christian Bale was British. You should watch Empire under the sun. It's an incredible film about a child pow in china captured by the Japanese during WW2, he has a British accent in that and must only be around 13. Also Christian Bale doesn't have a welsh accent at all. It's certainly more generic English sounding
Definitely not Welsh, it's a London accent if anything.
He did a fine Birmingham accent in Ford v Ferrari.
Or more recently, if you watch Le Mans (I think it was called Ford vs. Ferrari in America) - he plays the race driver Ken Miles and puts on a pretty decent Brummie accent.
Empire of the Sun based on a true experiences of the man who wrote it.J Ballard.
The song too. Omg I cannot remember the name of it but it’s a Welsh song
@@Bikergirl_40 Suo Gan
I never watched The Walking Dead, but I always remember Andrew Lincoln from a British tv show called Afterlife. He played a university lecturer, and Lesley Sharp played a medium haunted by her 'gift'.
That show was superb.
I remember him from This Life which was must see TV when I was a student.
Excellent series
@@hat9172 yeah when we started watching TWD we were like "It's EGG!!!" :D
Afterlife was a terrific show , he and Lesley Sharpe were mesmerising .
The most amazing thing about Hugh Laurie is that he played Bertie Wooster a posh 1920s British playboy comedy with an amazing aristocratic accent. You can't get a more British accent.
Daniel Day-Lewis, Damian Lewis are two who you have left out. You need to get a better clip selection to view as some of these people have not even heard of.
Staffordshire is not a city 😂
Thank you. I was about to post that!! As we know Staffordshire is a county not a city. Maybe they mean Stafford.
He was born in Stoke. I think the narrator just slipped up. Surely even Americans know most countys are shires?
And England and Britain are not the same! [Half English/Half Scotish].
Christian Bale is English, born in Wales to English parents who moved back to England when he was 2 years old he has a London accent.
yep sounds funny them describing him as welsh with a welsh accent when he sounds like a cockney lol
Yeah, that channel’s research wasn’t the best. I think they looked him up on Wikipedia and assumed that his place of birth meant that his accent had to be Welsh. Also that bit about someone being from the “town” of Staffordshire.
You can't be born in one place and be a different nationality from another place that's not even possible. if you are born in a certain place that's your nationality it has nothing to do with where your parents are from or how you think of yourself its actually where you were literally born, that's how it is in law. He's only got his English accent as he began living there from the age of 2 which is young enough to pick that accent up plus hearing his parents speak, but it does NOT make him English.
@@emmahowells8334 You can change your nationality legally but more importantly he says he's English, a dog born in a stable doesn't make it a horse.
@@hetrodoxlysonov-wh9oo A person born in Wales doesn't make him English either. You can not change where you were born, it's on you birthday certificate. You can only change gender and your name. He says he's English as he grew up there it's all he's known, still doesn't make him actually English. I can say I'm cat doesn't make me one lol. So your example is wrong lol. It's sounds like it offends you that he was born in Wales.
Kate Winslet is one of my favourite British Actresses that does mainly American tv/movies
Watch her in the new film "Lee" which is a bio-pic about Photographer Lee Miller, who was American
@steveclarke6257 I've been searching to watch that. Do you know where I can please?
@sarahbetts2219 well I have no idea where you are in the world, it's on general release in the UK as far as I'm aware
@steveclarke6257 I am in the UK. Thank you. I've seen 90% of her tv/movie career so far, so I will defo be checking that one asap
Emily Blunt also does some great work in an American accent.
Andrew Garfield in comedies 😂
Half of the cast of walking dead is British 🤣🤣
British actors are usually just the best tbf
Americans are pretty poor at doing British accents.
@@jaxcoss5790mostly a generic British accent rather then regional ones though. When do you hear US actors put on a Geordie or Scouse accent or black country? Lol. Never really. Yet UK actors can imitate a vast range of US accents from heavy southern drawl to thick NY etc
Sounded fine to me, great to have you back on, should definitely check out blackadder (goes forth, is best in my opinion) the difference in hugh laurie from his character in house just shows the variation and talent he has
Will have to check and see if that's one we can do, as I know you've mentioned it in the past as well. :) Hope you and your family have an awesome weekend, Mark!
@@reactingtomyroots Blackadder (except series 1) is regarded by many Brits as the greatest British comedy of all time, so you certainly should check it out mate, even if just for fun
Morgan in the Walking Dead and the Governor in the Walking Dead are also British actors. Lennie James and David Morrissey.
and Maggie is British Lauren Cohen
Also Alpha (Samantha Morton) and Jesus (Tom Payne)
@sarahgreen653 omg yes, Samantha is such a great actress
@@sarahbetts2219
Lauren Cohan was actually born in the US and spent her childhood up until age 13 in New Jersey. After age 13 her family moved to the UK (where her mom is from), and that is why when you hear her speak in interviews, her accent kind of flip flops between American and British.
David Morrisey, absolute great Scouser so not really English😉
Im also really impressed with the guy hosting the video you're watching, for pronouncing "Staffordshire" properly, as Staffordsher (no hard R, lol) and not Staffordsheer or Staffordshyer
Shame he then called it a city (or town?)
Always makes me laugh when they say "british" accent. A British accent accent doesn't even exist.
You need to see some of the Blackadder comedy series to see Hugh Laurie in his Englishness.
Tom Hardy played both of the London gangster twins in a film The Krays.
Christian Bale began as a child actor in the film Tears of the Sun, in captivity under the Japanese in WW2.
The movie Tom Hardy starred in was called Legend. The Krays was the 90s version starring the Kemp brothers.
Think it's "Empire of the Sun"
Empire of the Sun, based upon the autobiographical novel by J G Ballard about his experience as a schoolboy in Shanghai during WW2.
three amazing American performances from British actors are Millie Bobby Brown, Joseph Quinn and Jamie Campbell Bower. Eleven, Eddie and Henry Creel/Vecna from Stranger Things
Naomi watts, Naomi Harris , Damian Lewis ( Band of brothers, Homeland ) Rebecca Hall ,Will Poulter, Matthew Rhys, Stephen Moyer, Mischa Barton, Aaron Taylor Johnson , Arizona Ahmed, Alfred Enoch,
RIP Eddie 😭
Hi Steve and Lindsay
Hugh Laurie is actually one of the new wave comedians who came out of the Cambridge University set and first started in the Blackadder comedies of the late 1980s he was one of the British middle classes who changed UK comedy he left Cambridge with the likes of Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry and Rik Mayal, all of which starred in Blackadder.
There are actually loads of actors and actresses who've started out acting in the UK then after a few successes fly to the USA because the Hollywood film business has more opportunities than the UK film industry.
Rik Mayall wasn't at Cambridge, he was at Manchester University where he met Ade Edmondson.
@@faithpearlgenied-a5517 really I didn't know that. Ade Edmondson is another brilliant comedic actor too
Not completely accurate. Hugh Laurie started in UK TV comedy, with "A little bit of Fry & Laurie", followed by "Jeeves & Wooster".
He actually rowed for Cambridge in the 1980 Boat Race! There' a "Hidden" joke about that in "Black Adder goes Forth".
@@nigellusby8256 He actually started on BBC Radio 4....
@@nigellusby8256 I was going to mention Fry & Laurie. I think Stephen Fry is fairly well known in America so Steve & Lindsay should check out A Bit Of Fry & Laurie.
Yes, the role of sheriff originated in England, and the word "sheriff" comes from the Anglo-Saxon term "shire-reeve
I would recommend watching Blackadder goes forth, in regards to Hugh Laurie, it's a WW1 comedy series where he stars alongside Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson
Damian Lewis and most of the cast of Band of Brothers.
Yes ! 👍
For real. Hearing DL in his native accent just sounds unnatural now lol
Just to shock you more, Andrew Lincoln's real name is Andrew Clutterbuck, and his brother is a head teacher at a local school in Bristol UK.
A school in Bristol! Hope it's not like the one in Teachers!
@@peterdavy6110 He was actually my Son's head Teacher, and the school was pretty good.
Teachers was filmed at an old school in Bristol that was used as an arts and community education centre. They would be leaving from filming just as I was arriving for rehearsals with Bristol Opera. @@peterdavy6110
You should totally check out some Fry and Laurie on the channel. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, both such smart and funny people and burst onto the UK comedy scene in the .... 80s and then were in shows such as Black Adder with Rowan Atkinson (another person you should look into as he's done so much more than just Mr Bean).
Yes, I'm not a fan of Mr Bean, but I LOVE Blackadder.
@@TanyaRando I know , but so many outside of the UK have no idea of his other work. Not the nine o'clock news with Mel smith, Griff Rhys-,Jones and Pamela Stephenson. Awesome
@@chelliebellie4443 I wasn’t a huge fan of the first series of blackadder, but when the writers changed it was a big hit with me. I loved not the 9 o’clock news, loved Mel Smith. I even love Rowan when he talks to uni students and conferences, political stuff etc. I’m a big Monty Python fan, The Goons, Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. Absolutely loved Spikes war memoirs etc.
I will NEVER understand why Mr Bean went down so well in the USA. It was vaguely entertaining but the novelty wore off pretty quickly here.
@@Venti1388 it was very appealing to children. Also as there was hardly any dialogue it didn't need translating. I lived in Costa Rica, Taiwan, the Middle East - all the kids knew Mr Bean and enjoyed him. Hence the movies and cartoon.
Hugh Dancy born in the city of Staffordshire?
You can tell the American research team behind this video just glanced at the wikipedia pages.
Its probably the proximity to different accents for us thats gives us a better ear for them and ability to spot a fake. I will hear multiple accents on a daily basis. Its kinda like listening to AI, there are certain things that stand out to a real person.
It's criminal that Gary Oldman is often left out of these lists.
He's just that good
True say bruh.
Adore Gary oldman
You know something, one day, you will be going about and minding your own business, then someone will shout "CUT!" and you will find out that you were actually just a role in a story being played by Gary Oldman... That's how great an actor he is.
I really expected Gary Oldman to be on this list. I was shocked when I found out he was English.
James Marsters that played Spike off Buffy the vampire slayer had an amazing British accent as Anthony Head that played Giles on the show made him talk properly for it. I didn’t realise he was American till I saw an interview. That’s the best British accent I’ve heard from any American actor
Noooo! It was awful 😂 Although to be fair, it did get better as time went on
That’s true. I grew up thinking James masters was British 😂
@@akaped It got better but some inaccurate colloquialisms slipped in after Anthony Head left, like when Spike tells someone to "W*nk off!", as in, go away. 😂
I was thinking that too. I was so convinced that when he flubbed the occasional word, I'd blame it on the producers making him say it wrong. Then there's Gillian Anderson, an American who was raised in England, and who legitimately has two accents. If she's interviewed in the UK, she's English, if she's interviewed in the US, it's American.
James Masters was basing his accent on Sid Vicious as it fitted that character!
One underconsidered advantage that (most) British actors have over American ones is the relative vowel inventory of British vs American English. Both have relatively high numbers of vowels, but British English has more: approximately 16 versus approximately 20. Americans doing British accents often mess this up as two vowels which are the same in the US may be articulated differently here. There’s also a more complicated prosody system in British English with more variety of syllable lengths, which often trips up Americans (e.g. one, two, three, and four are all distinctly different lengths in British and Australian English but more or less the same in the US). Going the other way, British actors can struggle with remembering to not mutate most unstressed vowels to schwa (short, unstressed ‘uh’ sound). It’s often a dead giveaway.
"Daughter" is One word that is a dead giveaway when an American is faking a British accent.
Doing an American accent is like doing Geordie light, soften the consonants and express the vowels. Just don't add the Danish. 😉
There's 2 syllables in "mirror" not 1.
I think, in recent times, the voice coaching from American to various Brit accents has improved.
Most notably, for me, the work done on several actors in the Lord of The Ring's movies.
Particularly the guys who played Frodo and Sam!
Also, _way_ back in the 70's Jill Townsend as Elizabeth Poldark, produced a flawless English accent!
Andrew will always be egg, in this life x
5:15 'Born and bred in a city called Staffordshire, England'. Isn't Staffordshire a county?
Would be a bit like saying 'This actor was actually born in a city called Texas, USA'
Yes Staffordshire is a county here in U.K.
Staffordshire isn't a city
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staffordshire
Dude told us he knows nothing about the UK without telling us he knows nothing about the UK.
5:06 As far as I can tell, Hugh Dancy was born in Stoke-on-Trent, one of the larger towns IN the county of Staffordshire (the county town of which is Stafford, hence the name).
The Creative County
Stoke-on-Trent is a city, not a town. It was formed by amalgamating 6 towns together: Tunstall, Burslem, Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent (note the difference between it and the city name), Fenton, and Longton. The nearby town of Newcastle-under-Lyme refused to join, even though there is not any apparent countryside between it and the city. It was formed in 1910, and took its name from the town where the railway station was placed. Its main shopping centre is placed in the town of Hanley.
Although Stafford is not a city, and most of Staffordshire is in the Church of England Diocese of Lichfield. Captain Smith of the RMS Titanic was born in Hanley (part of Stoke on Trent), but his memorial sculpture is in Lichfield because Hanley is in the Diocese of Lichfield.
@@jerry2357used to be a big mural of him on the potteries shopping centre staircase from car park in Hanley for absolutely years. As a kid really stood out.
he also became great friends with the guy that played hannibal, when they both starred in the 'king arthur' film with clive owen and ray winston(i think keira knightly was in it aswell...)
Christian Bale does not have a Welsh accent 😂 how can they not hear that
Yep. it's a generic South of England accent.
Can the average Brit tell the difference between New York and Boston accents?
@@DesertRoamerUKyes
@@DesertRoamerUKAbsolutely I can.
@@DesertRoamerUK Speaking only for myself but yes, I think so.
Watch 28 days later, please... its the best horror movie to come out of Britain. Its also one of the inspirations behind the walking dead if i remember
Christian Bazle does not have a Welsh accent. He has a Southeast English accent, and although he was born in Wales, he considers himself English
British actors are trained actors on the whole.
And most have good theatre experience, unlike most American actors.
@@TryptychUK So very true. They also do go under the knife so often. 🤣
@@TryptychUKKeegan Michael Key is a trained shakespearean actor so clearly not true for most American actors.
@@jackwhitbread4583 So "one" equals "most"?
Andrew Lincoln came to fame in the UK with a comedy on channel 4 called Teachers ,very funny
he was in This Life before Teachers, and This life was Huge at the time
@@vaseline69 - Yes, I'm sure that ,"This Life" a bit of a dram-com was Andrew's initial main break into TV acting on BBC2 (1980's?) - I think I was only in my 20's about then - and it was where he was called Egg, and lived in an upper flat with 3-4 others who may have been studying at Uni, or were solicitors, or something of the kind . . . it's all that I've actually seen him in really and probably why I can remember it more . . .???
@@KGardner01010 it was 96, you are a bit early
@@vaseline69 - Wow, I was older than I thought when I watched it then, lol . . .
And afterlife
Everytime I hear a comment about American actors attempting a British accent brings on a severe PTSD as memories of Dick Van Dyke springs straight back into my mind.......Aaaaagh!
Have you never watched "Bridget Jones"? Renee Zellweger's English accent is amazing.
Yes I was thinking the same.
Dick's British accent was so bad, you just love it 😁
I have to give Peter Dinklage a mention as he was virtually the only American on "Game of Thrones", and I found him to be totally convincing.
What's interesting is nobody actually complains about Dick Van Dyke's accent as the senior Mr Dawes though either in the Original Mary Poppins or the younger Mr Dawes in the new Mary Poppins returns. It was his cockney accent that wasn't great. His elderly RP accent apparently did fool lots of people.
i was shocked you didn't know Andrew Garfield as atleast spider-man lol it's a whole discussion of whose better :P
The Wire had two major stars who were Brits, Dominic West and Idris Elba. The star of Homeland, Damien Lewis is also British
Christian Bale doesn’t have a Welsh accent. He has a London accent!
He was Born in Wales, then must have moved to London then America.
@@jessieb7290 Correct! Two years in Wales then moved to Portugal then Oxfordshire then Bournemouth. He moved to America when he was 17
@@jessieb7290 his parents are English.
@@jpwartist I know, thanks
Also 2 from iconic US shows
Idris Elba (The Wire)
Damian Lewis(Band of Brothers/Homeland)
Kate Winslett (Mare of Eastown)
or movies
Daniel Day-Lewis in anything
Michael Sheen played Nixon (he's Welsh)
Michael Sheen played David Frost, a Brit, in Frost/Nixon. But Sheen did play William Masters in The Masters of Sex, who was American.
Michael Sheen is an amazing actor. He lives not far from me and often he will be seen in the local supermarket
Tom Hiddleston, playing Hank Williams in 'I Saw The Light', even _sings_ with a strong US accent.
@@Bikergirl_40 Michael Sheen may be a good actor but he's also a massive douchebag. Pity, since I discovered that, everything he's in is ruined for me. I'm utterly unable to separate the art from the artist, which sucks.
Renee zellwegger does a brilliant British accent
I'm from Boston UK (middle East side).
Where the Pilgrim fathers got put in prison (the prison is still here, Guild hall) for the 1st time they tried to leave for America.
I live 2 miles from NEW YORK UK.
Don't forget Gary Oldman! He played Commissioner Gordon in the Batman movies. Superb actor.
He also played Sirius Black in Harry Potter ❤
Check him out in "State of Grace", "Romeo is Bleeding" and "Leon the Professional" 3 great movies 3 great performances.
@@stevebinning977 love him in Slow Horses.
Although Michael Caine played an English butler, weren’t Caine, Oldman, Hardy and Bale all in the same Batman movies?
@@charlottehardy822 Yes!
Peace love from England ❤
You two need to watch “Empire of the Sun”, as soon as you can find it! Christian Bale was 13 in that movie, and I saw it before he ever left the UK, so his move to the US wasn’t until he was an adult. Before he filmed Batman Begins, he accepted the lead role in The Machinist, which had us all rather worried for his health! So far, so good, but it wouldn’t surprise me if some side effects from making that film hit him in later life.
Brilliant movie also do-starring John Malkovich
I liked him in Henry V with Kenneth Branagh.
Hi. I love your reactions. As I left the UK when I was very young and recently returned, a lot of what you react to is also new and interesting for me. I therefore found this video quite difficult as I couldn't hear properly what was being said on the video you were watching. I personally would prefer that you guys and the video are at the sane volume, and that you pause when you want to comment. That way we get to enjoy the video as well as your reaction. Hope that makes sense. Love you guys. 💜🤗
The UK rarely remakes US shows, they just show the US show. And Brits are more interested in working in the US than vice versa. for some reason. Ker-ching!
As for the Batman films, most of the actors in those films were British, as was the director, Christopher Nolan. The butler, Michael Caine, the police chief, Gary Oldman, the crime boss, Tom Wilkinson, Liam Neeson (British/Irish), while the Wayne enterprise CEO (Rutger Hauer) was Dutch
Don't forgot Cillian Murphy
@@gew12 great one, Irish, of course
@@mango4ttwo635 And more importantly Christian Bale and of course Tom Hardy
As a Welshman I'd love to hear Christian Bales Welsh accent as I've only ever heard his cockney accent.... 😜
Isn't he a football player?...
@@darthwiizius Sweet baby jesus....... 😂
@@jaxcoss5790
Isn't he a footballer too?...
@@darthwiiziusthat would be Gareth.
Loads of British stars who I think should have been on the list but weren't - such as Idris Elba who was in The Wire.
As a child, Andrew Lincoln lived about three miles from my home town in East Yorkshire 😊
You mean Egg? From This Life, can't watch him or Miles act in anything else 😂
In the wire, Dominic West is English and he played Jim McNulty.
The problem with putting Idris Elba on the list would be that apart from the Wire (where agreed his American accent was incredible) the majority of his roles have been with his natural accent. So don’t expect anyone has forgotten he’s British unless they’ve only seen the Wire
@@johnadams9314 As far as I'm aware, Hugh Laurie throughout his career has only spoken in his English accent and he's only played one American character in House so I don't get your point about Idris as this video is obviously aimed at Americans and they will only know Hugh from House!
@@iangt1171 the difference is that most Americans only know Hugh Laurie from House, not A Bit of Fry and Laurie or his Bertie Wooster, but they know Idris Elba from the Wire and his many other subsequent (possibly even higher profile roles) where he’s used his natural accent.
If you keep in mind that an actor is only using his/her selected accent for only a few hours a day when working, falling back into their native language is not much of demand to make. Also they are only using the assumed language when working, not at home with family and friends.
Awesome reaction guys I knew most of these as Brits but I am 🇬🇧 myself, there are a few Americans I’ve heard with very convincing British accents, can only think of one off the top of my head Glenn Howerton nailed it in an episode of always sunny
I'm a big fan of The Walking Dead. My son used to work at Leicester Square Odeon where they have all the premieres. I'm not sure which film was showing, but Andrew Lincoln asked my son if he could hold his tickets for 10 minutes while he went to collect his party. Not being a fan of The Walking Dead, my son didn't know who he was, so his response was "No, I'm going off shift in a minute". I was mortified at such unacceptable behaviour 🤣 Another member of staff immediately recognised him and stepped in to 'hold' the tickets and save the day.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje who plays Adebisi in Oz and Mr Eko in Lost comes from my small town in Essex, UK. I was friends with his older sister. He used to dragging behind us from school.
Something similar to The Walking Dead here? You need to watch Cockneys v Zombies 😆
Hugh Laurie (House) is one of the main characters in 'Blackadder' comedy and several others.
Haha I always think of him playing upper class toffs!
He is the quintessental Prince Regent.
HE was also in the live action version of 101 Dalmations
4:11 err Spider-Man???? Probably his most famous role
To reverse it, Gillian Anderson of X files fame, does a brilliant British accent.
She lived in London until she was 11 and then spent every Summer in London, after her family moved back to the US.
She lived London for most of her first 11 years.
Gillian is bidialectic. She can switch effortlessly.
That's a bit of a cheat though, since she spent some of her childhood in Britain and has lived here as an adult for over 20 years.
She considers it her natural accent. She's said so in interviews, and she also considers herself American. She chose to actually adopt a Mid-western accent after she got teased at school for having a British one.
Hugh Laurie is going to be on this isn’t he? Most of the uk barely noticed House and still see him as from Blackadder and the absolutely amazing A Bit of Fry And Laurie from the late 80s and early 90s. Oh and Jeeves and Wooster of course.
The audio is so much better👍. Gary Oldman who played Jim Gordon in Batman is also British. That means Batman, Bane and Jim Gordon are played by British actors.
Another great video. Best wishes to you both ❤
And the Joker was Australian, Scarecrow was Irish, Ra's Al Ghul was Irish and his daughter was French.
@mehallica666 Ireland is tiny in comparison to many countries but so much talent comes from Ireland. It's so impressive.
Andrew Lincoln was in a programme call This Life years ago... its well worth a watch.
did you watch Teachers? first thing i seen him in, pretty funny
Are you thinking of Afterlife ? The series set in Bristol and he’s a psychiatrist/ professor at the University ……and a woman ( Lesley Sharp) who sees dead people , including HIS dead son and he’s a TRUE sceptic of people like her ……becomes his patient ?
Very brilliant series , acting off the scale superb , dark , moving , emotional and SO good , I bought the dvd box set .!!! 👋
Egg in This life was brilliant I loved that show, and he was my favorite.
@@ruks-yl4utteachers was brilliant
@@Fanackapan101-hh5elAndrew Lincoln was in both Afterlife and This Life
In a city called Staffordshire...
Americans.
Oh dear.
Don’t……… 😁
I was born in a city called Merseyside. It’s great!!😂
Great video and love watching you guys react. You may be surprised that many of the main cast in The Walking Dead are Actually British. Us Brits don’t necessarily have much to be proud about our country these day but for a tiny little island our contribution to the world of movies, music & arts in general is unrivalled. Keep up the great work and keep well. 😀🙏
Really? I find them moronic.
Oh my the presenter in the video said the "city of Staffordshire" 😂😅😆
'started to dream in American'.....like when I learnt French, I stopped using my own voice until I was actually thinking in French for weeks at home. Best way to pass the exams!
You definitely need to check out some Blackadder (series 3 and 4), Jeeves and Wooster and especially Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry’s sketch show A Bit of Fry and Laurie
Yes !!
Many UK actors are great with accents. I wonder why so many men were listed? Kelly Riley from Yellowstone is brilliant as is Michael Sheen. I would love to see a video of US actors doing a British accent!
There are numerous people not on the list like Daniel Day Lewis, Tom Holland, Millie Bobbie Brown ect.
Daniel Day lewis is an irish citizen though,brought up in england,but he has sole irish citizenship and lives in county wicklow.He have dual citizenship but its the irish he uses.
@@Joseph13163 You literally just said he has sole Irish citizenship AND dual citizenship in the same comment.
@@nbartlett6538 He can avail of dual citizenship but he doesn't AFAIK
@@nbartlett6538 My bad he is a dual citizen,but we are honoured in ireland nontheless
Christopher Guest in Spinal Tap is the best American to do a British accent. 11 out of 10
In relation to the Daniel Sharman section, I'm from the UK and have also never heard of him but I can definitely relate to what he said.
After moving to Spain in 1999, by 2001 all my dreams were regularly conducted in Spanish 😂👍🏾
Seems like Hollywood must have plenty of kettles , Hugh Lawrie was the biggest surprise as he was known for light comedy , with Stephen Fry and in Blackadder with a plummy upper class accent . He's also a pianist and has a great blues voice . Staffordshire is an English County , Gillian Anderson , Meryl Streep and Renee Zelwigger in Bridget Jones come to mind with British accents .
Gillian Anderson isn't really either American or British, she's both. Spent large chunks of her life in both countries and can switch between the accents natively.
11:00 ..... And commissioner Gordon is played by one of the finest actors of all time, British Gary Oldman. I'm guessing you know Sir Michael caine is British too and plays Alfred pennyworth, the butler. To top it off, the batman director is Brit Christopher Nolan 😂
And the film it made mostly in the UK!
And Tom Wilkinson who played Falcone is English. Also the Scarecrow (Cillian Murphy) and Ra's al Ghul (Liam Neeson) are both Irish.
Hi guys, audio quality is good and its good to see you both back ❤
For me, Tom Hardy playing Charles Bronson, and the fact that he sat with Charles Bronson, to learn more about him to perfect the role, and when Charles Bronson himself saw the movie and said "that's me" suggests he is one of England's finest actors..
I wish the original video gave you more of the British accent clips, they're too fleeting for you to hear.
It's funny being British knowing these actors first of all here in the UK, with the exception of Andrew Garfield who was a shock to me too.
Same here! Had no idea Garfield was British…and I think if I saw him in a film doing a British accent, I would have thought he was acting. 😂