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In Reply to: Re: Lived in Ireland, visit England. Johnny like most Americans just posted by Jeff Starrs on August 13, 2006 at 05:36:42:
successfully "do" an American accent?
Superb actors like Albert Finney (Miller's Crossing) and Michael Caine (Cedar House Rules) did alright but hardly convincingly American.
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My vote for the worst American accent by an English actor goes to Alfred Molina in Spiderman 2.
What's that got to do with Depp's fine english accent?
lousy at foreign languages and your ear is probably so. No insult meant, Jeff, but that's an internationally recognized fact. You could be one of a very select few.
..one of the select few.
I guess being British helps to have a good ear for a, duh, good British accent.
Like every time I watch House. Pete Sellers in Being There. Do Aussies count? I can make a big list if they do. Toni Collette, Hugh Jackman, Rose Byrne etc etc.
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"Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. " T.S. Eliot
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I bet the ones I cited would fool anyone who didn't already know.
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"Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. " T.S. Eliot
I know that not all Aussies sound like the Crocadile hunter but half way to American? Not the ones I know. Yeah, some of the ones who have been here quite a while. Nicole Kidman and Naomi Watts have almost lost their Aussie accents. But I didn't even list them. The Aussies I listed also do perfect English accents.
in school.
Depp, in his way, is a more refined Tony Curtis in "Spartacus."
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