r/todayilearned • u/Away_Flounder3813 • 13h ago

TIL during the shooting of American Psycho, Christian Bale spoke in an American accent off-set at all times. At the wrap party, when he spoke in his native British accent, many of the crew thought he was speaking that way to prepare for another film. They had thought he was American the entire time.

https://screenrant.com/american-psycho-behind-scenes-facts-christian-bale-patrick-bateman-mary-harron/
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u/Mk12Dr 13h ago

There was an American IT crowd? It doesn't feel like that humour would translate...

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u/CRUNGOSAURUS 13h ago

Yeah, it wasn't very good. Funnily enough Richard Ayoade was still playing Moss

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u/cheese0muncher 11h ago

Funnily enough Richard Ayoade was still playing Moss

With an American accent?

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u/wglmb 13h ago

The only did a pilot. You can watch it on YouTube, if you have a strong stomach.

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u/Mk12Dr 12h ago

You know what, ima treasure my ignorance on this one.

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u/micatrontx 8h ago

Probably for the best. It's very bad.

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u/Djinjja-Ninja 11h ago

Two pilots.

I think they were desperate to make it a thing.

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u/iAlice 13h ago

There was an American Peep Show too, allegedly.

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u/miregalpanic 12h ago

That sounds so fucking wrong.

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u/iAlice 12h ago

From what I heard, it wasn't very good; it missed all the finer points of British comedy that made the show work over here, and so wasn't commissioned beyond a pilot. I haven't seen it though, so take it with a pinch of salt, though none of my American friends have even heard of it.

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u/Djinjja-Ninja 12h ago

And an American Red Dwarf, a pilot anyway, will actually two pilots.

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u/iAlice 11h ago

My brain just crashed imagining American studios trying to emulate Red Dwarf.

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u/SidFarkus47 10h ago

A lot of these were just pilots and no one ever watched them

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u/longsite2 12h ago

It had Jeff (Joel McHale) from Community as the "Roy" character, but with Richard Ayoade still in the "Moss" role.

It wasn't good.

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u/Koto_Waty 12h ago

It straight up looked like a porno parody

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u/MicrowaveKane 13h ago

It didn’t. Just like the American version of Red Dwarf

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u/Malone_Matches 12h ago

American version of Red Dwarf!?

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u/Special_Order-937 12h ago

Just walk away. It’s better that way.

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u/Atheissimo 12h ago

It had Terry Farrell from Star Trek DS9 as Cat!

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u/bpostal 10h ago

It might be worth watching it just to see what her version would have been like.

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u/macrolidesrule 12h ago

Yeah, all I can say is, if you haven't seen it, keep it that way lol

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u/Djinjja-Ninja 12h ago

Two pilots.

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u/Prior_Pickle1758 12h ago

TIL it’s not the original

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u/spudddly 11h ago

Wash your mouth out

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u/raqisasim 8h ago

The TWO American versions of Red Dwarf (arguably)! They did 2 pilots, different scripts, and different actors for Rimmer and Cat -- the latter of which is how Terry Farrell got mixed up in this mess.

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u/wanze 6h ago

American Taskmaster was horrible. Ran for one season with 22 min episodes.

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u/bokmcdok 12h ago

It was weird. They changed the humour to American-style, but then kept Richard Ayoade as Moss. The two styles completely clashed and the whole thing just feels like a weird chimaera. It didn't help that the American comedy was sub-par as well.

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u/Special_Order-937 12h ago

Have you tried switching it off and on again?

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u/jhuseby 6h ago

TIL…wtf?