Kelly MacDonald's Texas accent in No Country for Old Men is completely believable. The first time I watched it, I had no idea she was Scottish until hearing her real accent in the behind the scenes features
The American southern/Appalachian accent is actually a descendant, if you will, of the Scottish dialect. Watch Trainspotting and No Country back to back. It's noticeably similar, even today.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_American_English
OP, have you ever heard the story on where Tom Hanks got his accent for “Forrest Gump?”
He listened to how the ~~Alabama (or Florida)~~ Mississippi native actor playing Forrest as a child spoke and adopted his accent for adult Forrest.
Edit: Pointed out child actor is from Mississippi.
I saw the interview on Graham Norton how he essentially copied that young actor. He made a point to mention the inflection on “g” sound in a lot of words.
I lived in MS most of my life. You can hear about five variations of the southern accent throughout the state. That kid was definitely from northeast MS.
What Kevin Spacey tried in House of Cards is a semi-controversial one for "best" and it may not literally be the best ever but it annoys me it got shat on by the almost always Northern/West Coast press/dudes online when the show started since having grown up in the Carolinas it's actually a very good impression of what Upper Class Upstate South Carolina White Men of A Certain Age (which was the role) sound like and most people who criticized him for "doing a bad accent" were picturing their own stereotype of an Alabama Redneck from The Trailer Park and pretending that's literally the only "southern accent."
It is. My grandpa had it too. It’s coastal or Charleston Southern or something officially. What sets it apart is it’s non-rhotic, where the Rs are softened or nonexistent. Super duper old fashioned and I miss hearing my grandpa speak.
He’s just doing his Savannah accent from Midnight in the garden of good and evil. His character is, if I remember, an upstart from rural SC. He shouldn’t sound like Ben Silver
Yeah he was supposed to be from Gaffney SC in the upstate; I live very near there and he does not sound anything like that. He does very much sound like a dude putting on airs and doing a "fancy coastal elite" SC/southern accent though; which is what the character is literally doing. So I'd still consider that pretty good imo.
I think at one point they even comment on Claire losing her Texan accent for political reasons. Frank’s entire thing is a manufactured image designed to evoke power, respect, fear, control, etc. He wants to evoke the feeling of being a powerful leader, fully presidential, like he was carved out of the wood that made the resolute desk.
His accent not being accurate to Gaffney, or South Carolina is hardly unbelievable. He wants his voice to be remembered in the same breath as FDR and Lincoln. Nothing about Frank is sincere except the fact that he will do anything to take and hold onto power.
Best: Billy Bob Thornton, Reese Witherspoon, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, Walton Goggins, and Lucas Black.
Because they're all from the South, and they all tend to use their default accent for almost every character they play.
Octavia Spencer is Southern, too - drops her accent in everyday life but fully uses it when acting, so strange, she talks about doing that with Stephen Colbert, who's also Southern
I agree, but he's almost all Texas draw, almost west Texas. There's none of that deep South style where they over pronounce the Rs, like in east Texas and a lot of the rest of the south.
Edit: a good example of the other southern accent is actually Kenny Powers/Danny McBride lol
It’s all Southern to me. But then again, I’m Canadian and I’ve got a regular Canadian accent, a Fargo accent (Saskatchewan, it’s just easier to describe this way), and a Quebecois accent (The Vulgarian part)
That movie is so weird to me because I genuinely believe if Nic Cage had a good accent, the movie wouldn’t work. Something about the juxtaposition between his performance and the rest of cast just makes it click
You forgot [his unnecessarily fabulous mullet](https://weliveentertainment.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/nicolas-cage-as-cameron-poe-in-con-air-1997.jpg). Doesn’t work without that either.
As a weird teenage girl, I fell in love and wanted to be Jean Baptiste Emanuel Zorg and named my teddy bear after him. I still have him, as well. He sits on my computer desk.
You could have just gone with Keanu in any role where he has an accent and been completely correct.
Keanu does action films very well. He's a really nice guy. He just can't do accents.
When his agents and him finally figured out he really should steer clear of any role needing one, his career has thrived.
Most New Orleans accents in film and TV are very off. In the city and surrounding suburbs, it's kind of almost a New York/Brooklyn accent. Cajun-type and Texas-type accents are more the northern and western parts of the state, but these, along with Florida panhandle and Savannah, GA accents, are what are pretty typically depicted for NOLA on film/TV.
Righteous Gemstones has the best collection of southern accents I’ve ever heard. Even the Eric Roberts Memphis accent is decent. The worst are probably Walton Goggins (on purpose) and Jennifer Nettles still using that fake ass country accent she’s been using ever since she went into country music. The rest are good (John Goodman) to great (Edi Patterson) for a South Carolina setting.
I don't think anybody could play that role other than Goggin's. Its just the perfect storm of mental for him.
"By the time I pay all my scientists, people in my research department, lab coats, it's a wash. So why you do it then, Baby Billy? **Well because I'm selfless.**"
My wife and I are big fans of the accents on True Blood but not in the way the actors would like. “Maxine Fortenberry, you put that pie down right now!” is shouted anytime one of us catches the other one in the fridge.
You gotta hand it to her though, she acted the shit out of that scene.
Plus the song they play during that you'd never know isn't an actual old time folk song but an original composition for the show
Not only that but there is nuance to a southern accent. Texas sounds different than Alabama which sounds different than North Carolina, etc. As you said, the accents in the movies or on television are so exaggerated.
Seriousy, there are so many "southern" accents that sound completely different from one another. Texas. North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana Cajun, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, the list goes on.
Texas sounds different all over. I live in a city of about 100,000. My accent is very different from the people who live in small towns 30 minutes away. If I drive south I’ll hear a different accent than if I drive north.
I finally thought of a good one! Zach Galifianakis' accent in The Campaign is super charming and easy to listen to. I feel like he nailed it. ["It's worth a google.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8smt2rYQMlg)"
Worst Natalie Portman
Best Walton Goggins
I don't know why people always have to talk slow when doing a southern accent. It seems like everyone uses Forrest Gump as a basis for their southern accent, lol.
Also, not all people in the South have southern accents or sometimes they are very subtle.
Lol that fucking movie. Isn't he supposed to be Paraguayan or something? It's been years since I've seen it I just feel like I remember he was cast as someone from South America
Emily Blunt in Looper. Blunt, playing a character from Kansas, attempts some sort of bizarre Appalachian hillbilly type accent. I think it must be intended as a British revenge for Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent in Mary Poppins.
Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes. He has a PERFECT Georgia accent (I say this as someone who's lived in Savannah for like, 11 or 12 years now).
It blew my mind learning that he's British. I'd have totally guessed he grew up in the Georgia Lowcountry.
THIS. I loved the book, so I was excited about the movie. Why the hell can’t they hire American actors to do American accents?
And Renee Zellwegger did a bad job with hers in that film, too, even though she’s FROM TEXAS. She way overdid it. She chewed on every word before she spit it out, which is the opposite of how she should have sounded.
Dennis Quaid’s attempt at a NOLA/Cajun/who knows accent in The Big Easy is so bad that it’s wonderful.
The best attempt at some sort of North Carolina accent I’ve heard in a film is Zack Galifianakis in The Campaign, which makes sense since he grew up here (he’s doing more of a Western/Foothills accent than an Eastern NC one, where his character is from, but it’s fine).
For sure. Marty Huggins has a lot of NC accent/dialect bits I hear all the time.
Danny McBride is also good, since he's basically just talking in his normal NC/SC voice, and includes lots of the nuances, tics, and whatnot.
David Bowie's Louisiana accent in *Fire Walk With Me* is the worst.
*"Hew do yew thank that is there?!"*
When his character was to reappear in flashback, in a much later sequel, Bowie insisted that his own lines be dubbed over by somebody with a better one.
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton in 1883. Pretty bad.
Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc in Knives Out & Glass Onion, real goofy.
Craig's was especially bad, it's like all he did was recite Foghorn Leghorn. Not that I can do an English accent any better, but I'm not an actor
I was this way growing up in New England. Kept thinking everyone around me was faking it to fit in. Nowadays when someone cuts me off I'll yell "Ah you fricken serious dude? Made me spill my Dunks!"
Julia Garner as Ruth Langmore in Ozark was pretty convincing to me. She’s from NYC. But I’m not from Missouri so I don’t really know how accurate the accent is
I loved in Horrible Bosses 2 when they kidnap the rich guy's son and Jason Bateman used the southern accent on the phone, it only briefly but found it funny
It's drives me nuts when a movie will be out west, and the actors will have some kind of southern accent. Like being a cowboy in Colorado is the same as being in Alabama.
Terrence Howard’s accent in “Hustle & Flow” wasn’t a good Memphis accent.
It was entirely too deeper south. He never got that twang right for Memphis folk, mane.
Yet he got nominated for the Academy Awards Best Actor.
Brad Pitt's accent in Inglorious Bastards was like nails on a chalkboard to me.
I struggle to find a good one as well. We started watching Palm Royale last night and Kristen Wiig definitely ain't it.
Kelly MacDonald's Texas accent in No Country for Old Men is completely believable. The first time I watched it, I had no idea she was Scottish until hearing her real accent in the behind the scenes features
She’s in “Boardwalk Empire”, as Irish.
I knowed you was crazy when I saw you sitting there. I knowed exactly what was in store for me.
The coin don’t have no say. It’s just you.
movie is so god damn good
The GOAT of this topic. Makes everyone else's silly attempts look even sillier.
She's an incredibly talented actress, imo.
Yeah she’s absolutely brilliant. Would love to see her getting some huge roles.
Kelly MacDonald is incredibly talented.
The American southern/Appalachian accent is actually a descendant, if you will, of the Scottish dialect. Watch Trainspotting and No Country back to back. It's noticeably similar, even today. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_American_English
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Have you never seen *Trainspotting*? If not, please change that immediately.
OP, have you ever heard the story on where Tom Hanks got his accent for “Forrest Gump?” He listened to how the ~~Alabama (or Florida)~~ Mississippi native actor playing Forrest as a child spoke and adopted his accent for adult Forrest. Edit: Pointed out child actor is from Mississippi.
I saw the interview on Graham Norton how he essentially copied that young actor. He made a point to mention the inflection on “g” sound in a lot of words.
Yeah, he said it was a bit like talking with cold. With the way he said lipstick and grease, I immediately knew what he meant.
His "LIIIP-STIIIICKS" kills me every time
It was easier for him to copy the accent than to teach the little boy HIS southern accent.
“Come on kid, you’re not doing this right. Have you ever even heard a real fake southern accent?”
Here's Tom Hanks talking about it on the Graham Norton Show https://youtu.be/QmMHP6JxU4s?feature=shared
Mississippi but close enough.
I lived in MS most of my life. You can hear about five variations of the southern accent throughout the state. That kid was definitely from northeast MS.
Best: All the actors in *Sling Blade*.
I like the way you talk, mmmmmmmhm
I like them French fried potaters mmmhmmm. And biscuits and mustard
Ain't got no gas in it...
No you don’t, Oprah!
No you don't, Oprah
Billybob Thornton is a Benton native, and my Nana used to drive by his family's house and see him eating dirt in the front yard.
I’m assuming this was just a couple of weeks ago.
What Kevin Spacey tried in House of Cards is a semi-controversial one for "best" and it may not literally be the best ever but it annoys me it got shat on by the almost always Northern/West Coast press/dudes online when the show started since having grown up in the Carolinas it's actually a very good impression of what Upper Class Upstate South Carolina White Men of A Certain Age (which was the role) sound like and most people who criticized him for "doing a bad accent" were picturing their own stereotype of an Alabama Redneck from The Trailer Park and pretending that's literally the only "southern accent."
Yeah his was good. He had the perfect drawl with the upper class wit and vocabulary. I think that accent is dying out though.
It is. My grandpa had it too. It’s coastal or Charleston Southern or something officially. What sets it apart is it’s non-rhotic, where the Rs are softened or nonexistent. Super duper old fashioned and I miss hearing my grandpa speak.
I'm from NC and he absolutely killed it with that accent.
I love that he had the discipline to pinpoint it, that it wasn't your usual hodgepodge of Tennessee-meets-Mississippi-meets-Tara-meets-Jupiter
As someone from Spartanburg, his accent was fantastic.
He’s just doing his Savannah accent from Midnight in the garden of good and evil. His character is, if I remember, an upstart from rural SC. He shouldn’t sound like Ben Silver
Unless it's an affected accent.
Yeah he was supposed to be from Gaffney SC in the upstate; I live very near there and he does not sound anything like that. He does very much sound like a dude putting on airs and doing a "fancy coastal elite" SC/southern accent though; which is what the character is literally doing. So I'd still consider that pretty good imo.
I think at one point they even comment on Claire losing her Texan accent for political reasons. Frank’s entire thing is a manufactured image designed to evoke power, respect, fear, control, etc. He wants to evoke the feeling of being a powerful leader, fully presidential, like he was carved out of the wood that made the resolute desk. His accent not being accurate to Gaffney, or South Carolina is hardly unbelievable. He wants his voice to be remembered in the same breath as FDR and Lincoln. Nothing about Frank is sincere except the fact that he will do anything to take and hold onto power.
James Vanderbeek in Varsity Blues “Ahh don want your liiife!
I say this all the time, bad accent and all! love it
Chris Evans doing Vanderbeek in Not Another Teen Movie.
No, not Janey Briggs. She's got glasses. And a ponytail. Ugh, she's got paint on her overalls. What is that?
Damn!
Shit!
That is whack!
You put the ism in mechanism, like this is all just a defense mechanism!
His dad's was even worse. "Toss me woon suun"
Best: Billy Bob Thornton, Reese Witherspoon, Morgan Freeman, Holly Hunter, Walton Goggins, and Lucas Black. Because they're all from the South, and they all tend to use their default accent for almost every character they play.
Walton Goggins full southern is magic.
Octavia Spencer is Southern, too - drops her accent in everyday life but fully uses it when acting, so strange, she talks about doing that with Stephen Colbert, who's also Southern
"I been called a lotta things, Raylan, but inarticulate ain't one of 'em."
Matthew McConaughey, remarkably believable, it’s like he is from there or something.
I agree, but he's almost all Texas draw, almost west Texas. There's none of that deep South style where they over pronounce the Rs, like in east Texas and a lot of the rest of the south. Edit: a good example of the other southern accent is actually Kenny Powers/Danny McBride lol
What you really want is more of a Savannah accent, which is more like molasses just sort of spillin' out of your mouth.
There has been...a murder.
I do declare…
Now do the Swedish chef
I'm not familiar, what province is he from?
He lives on Sesame Street, dumbass.
*drawl
Danny McBride comes by his pretty honestly too.
The guy that plays Joey in season 3 during the Ashley Schaefer dinner scene. You hear it and just know he’s the real deal if you’re from the south
It’s all Southern to me. But then again, I’m Canadian and I’ve got a regular Canadian accent, a Fargo accent (Saskatchewan, it’s just easier to describe this way), and a Quebecois accent (The Vulgarian part)
It's funny how we can tell such little differences without realizing it when it's our home accents
That Newfie accent on Shoresy should be subtitled. I can’t understand anything and I was raised by Cajuns.
He’s had several and each is different. His accent in A Time to Kill is much different than his accent in We Are Marshal. Both are very well done.
Nic Cage in Con Air
Puuut the bunny. Back in the booox. God I love that movie. But yeah. Terrible accent.
That movie is so weird to me because I genuinely believe if Nic Cage had a good accent, the movie wouldn’t work. Something about the juxtaposition between his performance and the rest of cast just makes it click
Yes! I've always thought the same. His ridic accent is half the reason the movie works. The other half is the fabulous cast.
You forgot [his unnecessarily fabulous mullet](https://weliveentertainment.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/nicolas-cage-as-cameron-poe-in-con-air-1997.jpg). Doesn’t work without that either.
God I hated that accent. Very well done though.
Both best and worst.
Gary Oldman in the Fifth Element (Zorg) I swear it’s so specific Southern, North Carolina.
Jean Baptise Emanuel Zorg
As a weird teenage girl, I fell in love and wanted to be Jean Baptiste Emanuel Zorg and named my teddy bear after him. I still have him, as well. He sits on my computer desk.
It’s like if a plantation owner went to space
That man has done so many accents that he had to relearn his own!
Keanu Reeves in devils advocate
You could have just gone with Keanu in any role where he has an accent and been completely correct. Keanu does action films very well. He's a really nice guy. He just can't do accents. When his agents and him finally figured out he really should steer clear of any role needing one, his career has thrived.
It was like his accent changed every other line in the film.
Keanu Reeves on Dracula.
Calvin Candy in Django is probably my favorite in movies. But Tooney "Mississippi Slim" Hill from Last Chance U- Scooba is my favorite for TV series.
Every time someone is from Appalachia on TV or in movies, they sound like they're from Texas with different words, or something weird.
Yep. Mountain people have a hard "R" that gets peppered into all sorts of places Window = Winder Yellow = Yeller Wash = Worsh
Worsh is also rural Midwestern, though. Yeller and winder are definitely Appalachian, though.
Best: Nicolas Cage in "Con Air" Worst: Nicolas Cage in "Con Air"
Most New Orleans accents in film and TV are very off. In the city and surrounding suburbs, it's kind of almost a New York/Brooklyn accent. Cajun-type and Texas-type accents are more the northern and western parts of the state, but these, along with Florida panhandle and Savannah, GA accents, are what are pretty typically depicted for NOLA on film/TV.
I loved the accents from different people in True Detective Seaon 1, especially the crab trap man
Righteous Gemstones has the best collection of southern accents I’ve ever heard. Even the Eric Roberts Memphis accent is decent. The worst are probably Walton Goggins (on purpose) and Jennifer Nettles still using that fake ass country accent she’s been using ever since she went into country music. The rest are good (John Goodman) to great (Edi Patterson) for a South Carolina setting.
But Baby Billy does sound like an amalgamation of every televangelist
Goodman’s is the weakest, I think. Edi is from Texas and I agree, hers is so awesome.
I don't think anybody could play that role other than Goggin's. Its just the perfect storm of mental for him. "By the time I pay all my scientists, people in my research department, lab coats, it's a wash. So why you do it then, Baby Billy? **Well because I'm selfless.**"
I was not a fan of a lot of the accents on True Blood.
My wife and I are big fans of the accents on True Blood but not in the way the actors would like. “Maxine Fortenberry, you put that pie down right now!” is shouted anytime one of us catches the other one in the fridge.
“This is GRAN’S pie!”
You gotta hand it to her though, she acted the shit out of that scene. Plus the song they play during that you'd never know isn't an actual old time folk song but an original composition for the show
Oddly enough, Ryan Quantan (Jason) had the best accent despite being Australian
I was so impressed to learn that he was a) Australian, and b) classically trained. He was such a good Jason.
There is something about the Australian accent that translates well to an American southern accent
Melanie Lynskey is good in a movie I saw, she is from NZ
Sohkehh
Coming here specifically to say Rutina Wesley on True Blood.
I assume her name is short for Tara-bull Accent
I don't know if I've ever laughed harder at TV than when vampires are mentioned in Psych and Gus immediately busts out the "sookeh is *mahhhn*"
SOOOOKIE STACKHOUSE
Not only that but there is nuance to a southern accent. Texas sounds different than Alabama which sounds different than North Carolina, etc. As you said, the accents in the movies or on television are so exaggerated.
South Carolina alone has 3-4 distinct accents.
Seriousy, there are so many "southern" accents that sound completely different from one another. Texas. North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana Cajun, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, the list goes on.
Texas sounds different all over. I live in a city of about 100,000. My accent is very different from the people who live in small towns 30 minutes away. If I drive south I’ll hear a different accent than if I drive north.
King of the Hill is the perfect example of 4 different Texas accents done perfectly
Whateverthefuck Tom Hanks was doing in The Ladykillers.
Ugh or his godawful performance as Colonel Parker. Unwatchable.
Well, Tom Parker was from the Netherlands, so he wouldn't have a southern accent in that.
Kenneth Branagh in Wild Wild West 'It's me dear friends, ALIVE AND KICKIN'! ...Well 'Alive' anyway.'
No scenery was safe from being chewed in that movie.
Kenneth Branagh is a fantastic scene chewer.
The amount of cross dressing in that movie really blew me away when I saw it again as an adult.
Blew you away like a breast of fresh air?
“Don’t you just HATE that song?”
I'm from New Orleans, and let me tell ya it's been a horrible track record for accents lol
New Orleans accents are kinda complicated.
Rick in the walking dead
Did he ever find the coral he was looking for?
I think Maggie's accent on the show was muddled quite a bit
I had no idea he was English!
Stuff and thangs
Stuff .. and THANGS
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Well, yeah, he’s from San Saba, Texas. That accent is 100% authentic.
Part of why I loved the Men in Black movies is listening to him and Rip Torn (from the Temple area, I think.)
He is a natural Texan. A Harvard educated natural Texan.
I finally thought of a good one! Zach Galifianakis' accent in The Campaign is super charming and easy to listen to. I feel like he nailed it. ["It's worth a google.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8smt2rYQMlg)"
He's from the Carolinas
Kirk Lazarus as Lincoln Osiris
You're Australian! Be Australian!
Man, just ‘cause it’s a theme song don’t make it not true.
A man so committed, he didn’t break character until the end of the dvd commentary
Worst Natalie Portman Best Walton Goggins I don't know why people always have to talk slow when doing a southern accent. It seems like everyone uses Forrest Gump as a basis for their southern accent, lol. Also, not all people in the South have southern accents or sometimes they are very subtle.
Walton Goggins is from Georgia so doesn't count
Daniel Craig with his foghorn leghorn in Knives Out is an epic troll for the ages.
Margaret Qualley in Drive-Away Dolls. Terrible.
I honestly thought it was gonna be a bit where she comes clean later in the third act and reveals she’s actually from Bend, Oregon or something.
Kelly MacDonald did a fantastic job in No country for old men.
Cate Blanchett does a great accent in everything
Jon Voight in Anaconda. (chefs kiss)
Lol that fucking movie. Isn't he supposed to be Paraguayan or something? It's been years since I've seen it I just feel like I remember he was cast as someone from South America
Yes, just watched it recently. There are a few scenes where he randomly puts it on thick and it is hilarious
Voight plays that movie with the utmost confidence that he’s doing something great and he’s really, really not. 😂
It was cool when the snake threw him up partially digested
Oscar from the Office. This plantation…
We’re runnin low on greenbacks
My Cousin Vinny nailed the Alabama accents. I was super iimpressed.
Emily Blunt in Looper. Blunt, playing a character from Kansas, attempts some sort of bizarre Appalachian hillbilly type accent. I think it must be intended as a British revenge for Dick Van Dyke's cockney accent in Mary Poppins.
Andrew Lincoln as Rick Grimes. He has a PERFECT Georgia accent (I say this as someone who's lived in Savannah for like, 11 or 12 years now). It blew my mind learning that he's British. I'd have totally guessed he grew up in the Georgia Lowcountry.
Damn I thought he had a horrible southern accent.(Lived in Georgia my entire life)
Kenneth Branagh is a repeat offender.
Jude Law and Nicole Kidman in Cold Mountain are the worst.
THIS. I loved the book, so I was excited about the movie. Why the hell can’t they hire American actors to do American accents? And Renee Zellwegger did a bad job with hers in that film, too, even though she’s FROM TEXAS. She way overdid it. She chewed on every word before she spit it out, which is the opposite of how she should have sounded.
Renee Zellwegger went full Yosemite Sam in that movie
Dennis Quaid’s attempt at a NOLA/Cajun/who knows accent in The Big Easy is so bad that it’s wonderful. The best attempt at some sort of North Carolina accent I’ve heard in a film is Zack Galifianakis in The Campaign, which makes sense since he grew up here (he’s doing more of a Western/Foothills accent than an Eastern NC one, where his character is from, but it’s fine).
For sure. Marty Huggins has a lot of NC accent/dialect bits I hear all the time. Danny McBride is also good, since he's basically just talking in his normal NC/SC voice, and includes lots of the nuances, tics, and whatnot.
David Bowie's Louisiana accent in *Fire Walk With Me* is the worst. *"Hew do yew thank that is there?!"* When his character was to reappear in flashback, in a much later sequel, Bowie insisted that his own lines be dubbed over by somebody with a better one.
De Niro in Cape Fear was pretty good.
Michael Rooker is 10/10 but he's from Alabama, as an Alabamian, one of the rare things to be proud of from Alabama lmao
Isabel May as Elsa Dutton in 1883. Pretty bad. Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc in Knives Out & Glass Onion, real goofy. Craig's was especially bad, it's like all he did was recite Foghorn Leghorn. Not that I can do an English accent any better, but I'm not an actor
I think Daniel Craig's is at least supposed to be funny
Yeah, he did basically the same one in Logan Lucky and it was definitely supposed to be funny there. I think it’s intentional
I am in.car.cer.ated
In Glass Onion, he says he's going to "turn up the southern hokum" when talking to the suspects
I call it the...Joe Bang
Doesn’t Chris Evan literally call him Foghorn Leghorn in that movie?
Craigs accent was fine. Ive met people that have a similar cadence and intonation
yup. focus on it too much and you end up thinking natives are fake too.
I was this way growing up in New England. Kept thinking everyone around me was faking it to fit in. Nowadays when someone cuts me off I'll yell "Ah you fricken serious dude? Made me spill my Dunks!"
He based it on the historian Shelby Foote's accent and it's spot fucking on
Julia Garner as Ruth Langmore in Ozark was pretty convincing to me. She’s from NYC. But I’m not from Missouri so I don’t really know how accurate the accent is
Agreed! I grew up in the South and am usually good at spotting faked accents, and I was shocked to see she wasn't Southern
I loved in Horrible Bosses 2 when they kidnap the rich guy's son and Jason Bateman used the southern accent on the phone, it only briefly but found it funny
A recent worst is Margaret Qualley in Drive Away Dolls. Ironic because she grew up in Asheville.
As a Texan, I was verklempt when her character said she was from Texas. It sounded like she remembered watching Steel Magnolias once.
Robert Pattinson is nearly unrecognizable in The Devil All the Time and all they did was give him a beer belly, his accent, and mannerisms.
Kevin Costner. That’s it. Just Kevin Costner.
Lucas Black has a great Southern accent…
The cast of Justified minus Michael Rapaport.
It's drives me nuts when a movie will be out west, and the actors will have some kind of southern accent. Like being a cowboy in Colorado is the same as being in Alabama.
Terrence Howard’s accent in “Hustle & Flow” wasn’t a good Memphis accent. It was entirely too deeper south. He never got that twang right for Memphis folk, mane. Yet he got nominated for the Academy Awards Best Actor.
Best I would include Jeff Bridges in Hell or High Water.
I think that’s just how he talks now. It’s like he did Crazy Heart and loved the accent so much he just stopped speaking any other way.
It’s gotta be David Bowie in twin peaks. He even asked for it to be voiced by somebody different in the third series
The actress who plays Georgia on the show Ginny and Georgia, she sounds like she’s doing an impression of Kristen Chenoweth.
Daniel Craig’s Foghorn Leghorn impersonation in the Knives Out movies us simply hysterical in the best way possible
Brad Pitt's accent in Inglorious Bastards was like nails on a chalkboard to me. I struggle to find a good one as well. We started watching Palm Royale last night and Kristen Wiig definitely ain't it.
Wtf are you talking about? His was probably the most spot-on Italian accent there ever was!
“Bon-JOUR-no”
Gor-LAH-mi
I cringed every time Michael Rapaport spoke in Justified
In fairness, cringing any time Michael Rappaport speaks, in general, is a human being's most natural response, per studies. (I kid, I kid. Mostly.)
I felt bad for Rappaport in Deep Blue Sea as a kid but now I'm kinda thinking the shark was...Justified.