Most Dramatic TV Storylines of All-Time...

cdogg is Fightbeat's own angry Elmo, playing jazz and shitting on Jim Croce.

 

Gotta love the be-bop, gents

 

When Phil Mitchell got shot in Eastenders. I thought it was Dan.

 

I thought it was Pauline Fowler.

 

cracker. jimmy dressed up as the serial rapist and raped penhaligon. fitz gets him to confess and jimmy commits suicide. pretty daring, getting one of the main characters to do that.

 

No need for racism rooster. :nono:

 

no one here can tell when a brit is playing an american

 

It's pretty much true. ::

I've seen a couple of interviews with British actors and they've said it's fairly easy. Basically just pronounce things the way they are in the dictionary.

That said most brits using american accents are doing "easy" ones. Rarely do you see a brit actor using a southern drawl for example.

 

Brit actors generally blow doing more difficult accents (southern, western, New York City) in much the same way an American actor would sound ridiculous doing Feebs' accent or Hut's

 

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The worst is when American actors (Taye Diggs for example) try to d oa Jamaican accent. Sounds utterly ridiculous.

 

If I remember correctly, back in the 80's, early 90's, it was usually the sophisticated Southern drawl that was the go to accent for most classically trained British actors attempting to play an American character.

Kenneth Branaugh, Emma Thompson, Brian Cox, Jeremy Irons and Anthony Hopkins. That's what they would usually fall back on.

It was the Australians that first realized you could talk like an American without sounding like a fucking plantation owner. ::

 

what accents do they have?

 

Hut is Glaswegian, Feebs is Geordie... hard to imagine any Americans successfully tackling those two accents

 

brad pitt's in meet joe black was even worse. "no mon!" :warning:

 

I was reminded of this thread after watching "Sons of Anarchy" last night.

Charlie Hunnam who plays "Jax", can be pretty horrible trying to master his American accent at times.

Especially when he yells. He always reminds me of the skinny British kid he played in "Undeclared" and his character in that really shitty Katie Holmes, Benjamin Bratt movie from about 10 years ago.