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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by devilbunny on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:29AM (#35949829)
There are ample rea$on$ why non-American actor$ can do decent American accent$.

It opens up American roles for them. Nobody is going to cast Brad Pitt as a Brit, an Australian, or a Kiwi. He's a fantastic actor, but they're going to use the homegrown talent. So there's no incentive for American actors to really learn another accent. Instead, we get a mountain of non-American actors doing mostly-good-but-sometimes-awful accents because that's where the money is.

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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by dghf on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:53AM (#35950263)
> Nobody is going to cast Brad Pitt as a Brit, an Australian, or a Kiwi. He's a fantastic actor, but they're going to use the homegrown talent.

Except for Irish roles, for some reason.

Brad Pitt as a northern Irishman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FjQQrxBhwQT

Brad Pitt as an Irish Traveller: https://youtu.be/9Jar2XkBboo?t=28

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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by inhumantsar on Monday May 15, 2023 @11:55AM (#35950300)
> Nobody (except Guy Ritchie) is going to cast Brad Pitt as a Brit (Irish is ok tho)

FTFY

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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by devilbunny on Monday May 15, 2023 @09:57PM (#35956973)
It was a throwaway line on my part, but you're right.
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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by hoorible on Monday May 15, 2023 @12:03PM (#35950428)
Since you mentioned Pitt, a funny anecdote: he wanted to be in Snitch because he was a fan of Lock Stock. But his London accent was so terrible that they went and made up the whole indecipherable gypsy thing just so he could have a role to play in the film.
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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by oh_sigh on Monday May 15, 2023 @01:07PM (#35951303)
Not only that, but a lot of British films will make british-only casting decisions, eg the Harry Potter series. I've never heard of a major American film making that choice, and it would probably be blasted as xenophobic if it did.
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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by Ar-Curunir on Monday May 15, 2023 @03:20PM (#35953257)
Er how many American movies have a single non-American? The only foreigners that consistently find employment in American cinema are Britishers, and that’s because the British English accent is perceived to have an at least equal prestige to the American one. You’re not going to find many main characters that are, say, Middle Eastern or South Asian or African.
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Re:Why are so many young Americans adopting fake British acc... by 908B64B197 on Monday May 15, 2023 @03:50PM (#35953552)
I have to wonder if it's related to subsidies by the government.
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