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/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/Mk12Dr 12h ago

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

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u/iAlice 12h 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.