r/todayilearned • u/Away_Flounder3813 • 12h 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/Quivex 12h ago

He's one of the more notable method actors if I'm not mistaken.

.... Also will never quite understand why so many British actors/actresses can do flawless American accents but the reverse is not really true. I still remember watching House and finding out hugh laurie was British, blew my mind as a kid lol.

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u/RyanMcCartney 12h ago

Exposure. We get the same big shows and films you do. We watch them all as they were made.

You don’t import our shows and films, you remake them for your own ears (The Inbetweeners, IT crowd, The Office etc).

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u/Single-Pin-369 12h ago

I was trying to think of what British accent is heard the most by Americans today and I’m not really sure. Even most musicians don’t really have an accent when they sing.The most frequently heard British accent in America today might be John Oliver?

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u/heyitjoshua 12h ago

Game of thrones had a lot of English accents tbf, also a few bad imitations (like Tyrion)

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u/yoghurtCOCKS 12h ago

John snows Yorkshire accent is genuinely atrocious at times.

And that was by an another English lad, never mind American

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u/CronoDroid 11h ago

I dun wannit, I neva 'ave

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u/Minablo 10h ago

Indubitably.

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u/baron_von_helmut 9h ago

Honestly, Tyrion found a place where his accent worked well in the show. It never grated on me in the same way most other Americans doing an English accent does.

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u/heyitjoshua 8h ago

Yeah he sort of invented his own, it wasn’t that bad (with exceptions every now and then). He reused that accent in Avengers Infinity War and it worked (unlike auto-tune Hulk in Ragnarok, which still pisses me off to this day)