'Serenity'
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So, yes, trained actors both.
I'm not comparing her directly to them, though. Never was.
For all I know, she's crap at accents. My point is merely that being a British actor able to shift accents isn't, as far as I can tell, dependent on being trained.
Except American, which they are as bad at as Americans are at British.
I think there are more British actors who can do a generic American accent decently than there are American actors who can pass in the other direction.
Well, I can count (off the top of my head) two British actors who can do a generic American accent correctly and no Americans, so you win.
(Off the top of my head: Miranda Richardson, Hugh Laurie.) No, Alexis Denisov doesn't count, because he trained in England.
Is there a generic British accent, in the way that there is (you know, Des Moines) in the States?
How could you forget Dick Van Dyke!!?!
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Off the top of my head I add Colin Farrell on the faking Brit side, and know there are others but my mind is completely blank right now. I think I've heard Liam Neeson be decent too.
Is there a generic British accent, in the way that there is (you know, Des Moines) in the States?
There's the old school BBC accent (received pronunciation, I think), but British TV uses a wider range of accents than US TV does.
Gwyneth Paltrow and Renee Zellweger both got props from the British for their accents, as I recall.
I don't think I've heard Colin Farrell do a great US accent yet.
He does an excellent Southern accent in Tigerland and a good NY/Queens accent in Phone Booth.
Wonder how he'll sound in "Miami Vice"
I think I thought the accent wasn't great in Phone Booth, but I don't really remember. Have never seen Tigerland.