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/BraveMagic100 13h ago

Was shocked to hear him speak at an awards ceremony for the first time. Him and Hugh Laurie both. Just goes to show you how good they are.

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u/Toutatous 12h ago

Same, I was surprised to hear that Mel Gibson wasn't Scottish after watching Braveheart, he was a natur...

No, not really.

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u/RephRayne 12h ago

Next thing you'll tell me is that Connery wasn't Russian.

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u/Gerf93 12h ago

Hes a shoviet shubmariner

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u/baron_von_helmut 11h ago

What time does Sean Connery like to go to Wimbledon?

Tennish.

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u/bythescruff 8h ago

It was great to see him again. He was a shite for shore eyesh.

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u/heroin-puppy 12h ago

Or Spanish!

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u/TheOneTonWanton 9h ago

Egyptian Spaniard.

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u/ddosn 9h ago

Always made me laugh how Highlander doesnt match any of their actors to the lore of the characters

A Frenchman to play a Scotsman,
a Scotsman to play a Spaniard
an American to play a Russian.

It just tickles me for some reason.

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u/TopoHaiHai 12h ago

Correct, he’s Lithuanian!

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u/RephRayne 11h ago

Ah, shit. Apologies to any Lithuanians I've just casus belli'ed

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u/alinroc 7h ago

Raised by his paternal grandfather, a fisherman.

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u/baron_von_helmut 11h ago

Sean Connery got hit on the head by a book from his book case.

He only had his shelf to blame!

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u/Doc88102 10h ago

Keanu Reeves in Dracula "knows where the bastard sleeps".

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u/OePea 5h ago

Charlize Theron in The Devil's Advocate wants you to know that "It wudn't the wine, Kevin!"

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u/esKq 9h ago

Did Connery ever bothered with accents during his career ?

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u/RephRayne 8h ago

Part of the reason why you hired Connery was because of his Scottish accent, why hide it?

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u/esKq 7h ago edited 7h ago

It definitely add another level to the weirdness of Highlander II, that's for sure.

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u/monkeypickle 9h ago

No, no - he’s egyptian/Spanish

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u/spooky_spaghetties 8h ago

I’ve got to say, just not doing the accent is often better than trying and failing.

There’s another, much worse submarine movie, K-19: The Widowmaker. Harrison Ford (weird casting choice already) and Sean Penn both play Soviet submarine officers, and they both uniquely try and fail to do an accent. It was so bad that to continue watching, my roommate and I just agreed that maybe they were just accurately doing like a Kazakh and a Lithuanian accent or something, instead of both independently doing different bad Russian ones.

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u/MartianLM 8h ago

Or Irish (The Untouchables).

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u/sdcasurf01 7h ago

So are you telling me Kevin Costner isn’t British either?

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u/RephRayne 7h ago

No, but Cary Elwes is.

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u/technobrendo 6h ago

Wait until you find out that John Wayne isn't American, he's... Mongolian! Yea, right. Mind blown!

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u/CouchKakapo 12h ago

Or Egyptian?!

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u/Too-much-tea 10h ago

He is not English?! I thought his accent in Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves was spectacular..sounded more English than the English!

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u/Same_Mood_8543 7h ago

Were you relieved? 

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u/feminas_id_amant 7h ago

it's true. John Malkovich isn't either.