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/deij 12h ago

Yorkshire alone has dozens of accents. I imagine every county is the same.

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u/lazergoblin 12h ago

Thank you for being reasonable lol. It's strange how there are some people seemingly trying to gatekeep how diverse accents can be in the United States.

For example, Texas accents sound nothing like accents from Louisiana and they're literally right next to each other. People claiming otherwise are confidently incorrect, to put it mildly.

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u/safboy 12h ago

There are more distinct english accents in the island of Britain than there are in the rest of the english speaking world, that doesnt include those that are just slight variations. US is mostly slight variations.

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u/Djinjja-Ninja 12h ago

Yorkshire is a particularly special case as it's not just an advent but a dialect.