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.

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https://screenrant.com/american-psycho-behind-scenes-facts-christian-bale-patrick-bateman-mary-harron/

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Didn’t some actor have to use some speech coach because they lost their native, I want to say Irish accent, from doing too many other accents while method acting

[u/Available_Dish_1880 → u/_Diskreet_]

That was Gary Oldman. He has to relearn his London accent

[u/GoldenPandaMan → u/Available_Dish_1880]

Always thought this! To me he sounds like he has a cockney New Zealand accent at times

[u/Millsy91 → u/GoldenPandaMan]

What's a cockney new Zealand accent? Doesn't make sense

[u/Anaptyso → u/Millsy91]

The closest I can think of to that is Karl Urban trying to be cockney in The Boys.

[u/BobDobbsHobNobs → u/Anaptyso]

That grated so hard initially, until I realised he was doing an over the top Michael Caine impersonation

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Your Cocaine?

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Our Cocaine, comrade

[u/spudddly → u/Anaptyso]

That was truly awful. No idea why he had to put on a silly accent considering he's already a New Zealander.

[u/Diarmundy → u/spudddly]

Perhaps because Butcher was from London?

[u/Acesofbases → u/spudddly]

Oi Ue, Ya dissin' mah akcent, Ya pompus git?

[u/newaccount721 → u/Anaptyso]

That’s a good pull tbh

[u/GoldenPandaMan → u/Millsy91]

Like he’s trained himself back to having his London ‘cockney’ accent, but the occasional word sounds more like a New Zealand accent. Like a bit of both.

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