Why American Actors Suck At British Accents

I think it's partly because of the amount of American media we consume as British people. We are constantly surrounded by american movies and tv shows all our lives so its easier to imitate the accent.

Although I probably watch American media the most as well, I really do enjoy British media. (Including the BBC)

So true hence why we know more of their culture more than they know of our culture. Also when watching all these American shows we tend to get confused which word is American and such is British e.g vacation (wich is the American term) and holiday (wich is the British term) these are common mistakes we do.

This dude just went from unarguably American to unarguably British in 0.2 seconds flat. Incredible, I'd love to be that talented at accents.

Southern English is what he was doing, my accent. Even then it's just one of the southern accents. I'd call it middle class London centric. The accents vary so wildly you really have to be that specific. In the same area there's cockney, chav/roadman, received pronunciation, upper class southern etc.

I'm great at doing accents, don't mean to brag 😉

Tom Holland can do his American accent AMAZINGLY

I mean been British makes it really easy at accents

He’s faking an American accent the whole time

Spoiler

He sounds Irish

because Americans didn't grew up with British media.

+Single Larity I think you're missing the point lol

+Joseph Docherty Me too

This may be something too idk but in the UK, we are bombarded with American culture through music and tv shows and games and books etc from a very young age. I learned how to spell certain words the American way or say certain words that I'd heard in american tv shows and I'd have no idea how to pronounce it in my scottish accent. It may be nothing Americans may be have shows from the uk too but here quite a number of our shows are american from an early age

+C J not nearly to the same extent as you guys though. We have mainly US shows to watch as kids

Steven Leahy no I’m British and British people put on the American accent cause it’s popular and it’s in right now . There are singers like jorja smith who use their accent and there’s mr medicine song loads more too

Can we just agree that we’re all terrible At each others accents

The real accent was the friends we made along the way.

I was today years old when I found out Rick from The Walking Dead is British in real life

Dean Wilcox I noticed when he would break his accent and you can here his English accent. Especially when he said Carl

When I hear someone fake a British accent im like "wow they're great" and British people cringe like "what the heck are you doing". I think it is also the same the other way around. I think I can do a pretty good British accent but if a British person heard me they'd probably think I was crazy. Also, I cannot tell the difference between a British accent and an Australian accent.

If you can't tell the difference between British and Australian no wonder you can't tell if an accent is bad. I can tell you right now just because you said that, you can't do a British accent. If you could you would know Australian is totally different. Your fake a accent is likely going to sound like a mix up of the two and anyone who hears it is just going to be confused as to which one you're trying to do or not recognize either. It might be good for Victor Von Doom though. Since he's from a countr...

Australian is lazy British

Or you’re like me and you’re a god damn accent sponge. I can’t travel or be around people from a different regional area without changing the way I speak. It comes in handy for learning a language, but more often than not it’s embarrassing. I don’t want people to think I’m copying them or am trying to be pretentious. It’s not a conscious thing and I have to catch myself doing it.

I do the same thing and get shit on for it .

Same!!!