I always ask an English colleague in the university if a particular American actor was able to speak in credible British accent, and so far, I remembered him praising Gwyneth Paltrow in SLIDING DOORS, Julianne Moore in THE END OF THE AFFAIR.
> >>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. I like Jeremy Northam ever since he appeared as a villain in the Sandra Bullock starrer THE NET. However, I take exception with his terrible Italian accent in THE GOLDEN BOWL -- it sounds so fake and obviously belabored. The last time I endured a fake accent was Nicolas Cage's in CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN. Thank God, John Hurt and Christian Bale did not bother to acquire the accent. In THE GOLDEN BOWL, Anjelica Huston's character was colorful but she was inconsistent with her British accent, so's with Uma Thurman.
