Posted on 03/17/2009 9:39:00 PM PDT by Stoat
i’d like to add an honorable mention to Gabriel Anwar for her horrible irish accent on the TV show “Burn Notice” which conveniently disappeared halfway through the first season.
Trouble is........I’ve worked with a couple of FOB Irish gents, and if they do the accents for real then Americans would have to use subtitles, cause it took me about two years before I could understand anything those guys were saying..............
Thanks Stoat: what a fun and interesting link.
I’m going to listen to the Hollywood phonys tomorrow.
Julia is a Libtard of the worst kind: she once said that Republicans are somewhere in the dictionary sandwiched between the words reptile and repulsive.
I have another word for her acting abilities:
reprehenible, revolting, retread, and regrettable.
Anyone else?
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!!!!
I think it’s unfair to take Connery to task because I believe he made it plain he wasn’t attempting to do accents in his movies. He’s never really been able to do them, and we forgive him that.
Sure and Begorra,..
Those are some of the worst!
Roberts, Spacey abd Cruise ta be sure.
So, she was so bad with the accent that they just changed her character in midstream from being Irish to being something else? How funny!
Perhaps they could lend their services to the military, much like the 'code talkers' of WW2 :-)
If you couldn't understand them then I doubt that the Iranians, the Russians or the North Koreans would be able to either :-)
Actually, she's British and I think she merely Americanized her speech for the show.
By the way, that House star does an amazing job speaking American.
See post #12
You're quite welcome, and I'm delighted that you've found it to be fun and worthwhile :-)
Julia is a Libtard of the worst kind: she once said that Republicans are somewhere in the dictionary sandwiched between the words reptile and repulsive.
What an absolutely dreadful and unprofessional person. I suppose she doesn't mind if half or more of America doesn't go to her movies as a result of her spewing things like that. She won't be getting any more hard-earned stoat-dollars if I can help it.
Connery’s Irish attempts pale when compared to his portrayal of Captain Ramius in “Hunt for Red October.” He made no attempt at all to sound Slavic, testing (successfully) the audience’s ability to willfully suspend disbelief.
That's a great video, thank you for posting! She's quite talented....perhaps she does voice work for media? To bad they only identify her as 'a chick' in the video.
Here she is:
No honorable mention of Brad Pitt doing the gypsy “pikey” accent in Snatch?
Supposedly that was Guy Ritchie’s response to the critics who gave him crap for bad accents in Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
Richard Gere in “The Jackal”...
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