colin wrote: >Do English actors speaking in an Amrican accemnt sound terrible to you?
No, most of them seem to master it fairly well. In recent memory Jeremy Northam in HAPPY, TEXAS was great. >Americans speaking in a british accent sound awful really bad. Recently parodied in an episode of JUST SHOOT ME, where everyone speaks in the worst cliches of posh English except Maya, whose accent is good but totally incomprehensible to the rest of the staff. > cept for >Renee whatsername in Bridget Jones . She was so good I assumed she was >English So did everyone else, until the wrap party. >cos I didn't rrealise she was the same actor who was in that >starnge film wheree she was a waitress and she sw her hubby killed by >Chris Rock(most annoying man). NURSE BETTY. An annoying film, due mostly to the gratuitous profanity. >Tonight in 3rd rock, there were 2 actors. one with an English accent and >one with a Scots accent. both terrible. Being used to Craig Ferguson's English accent on DREW CAREY, I thought he did a wonderful Scottish accent in SAVING GRACE ... and then I learned he's Scottish. I still had to translate parts of THE FULL MONTY for my wife, but mostly idioms. In the 1960s I watched THE HILL, one of Sean Connery's non-Bond films during the Bond craze, and had to translate every line for my date. Gil
