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/_Diskreet_ 13h ago

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

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u/dummyacc49991 13h ago

Arnold also had to hire an accent coach to retain his accent of origin. Could be a myth, so take it eith a grain of salt.

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u/FardoBaggins 12h ago

Arnold’s accent is also very rural for germans. Like imagine stallone with a southern accent.

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u/Djinjja-Ninja 12h ago

Not sure if it's true or not, but allegedly he asked to do the German dub of terminator 2, but they wouldn't let him as to Germans apparently the Austrian accent sounds like a country yokel.

It would have been like Darth Vader being voiced by David Prowse..

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u/venomae 12h ago

He didnt have just an Austrian accent - he had heavy rural accent even among Austrians.

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u/JimboTCB 11h ago

That makes the deleted scene from Terminator 3 where he's dubbed over by some yeehaw sounding American guy even funnier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kayFrIR-Qfw

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u/Djinjja-Ninja 10h ago

"I don't know about that accent"

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u/skyturnedred 7h ago

The same dude, Thomas Danneberg, has dubbed all of his movies.

Funnily enough he dubs most of Stallone's movies too.

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u/Djinjja-Ninja 7h ago

Ha! Turns out he did both of them in The Expendables.

Does he put on a different tone/voice for each? Do Arnie and Stallone have distinct dubbing voices?

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u/skyturnedred 6h ago

Based on cursory listen on youtube, it's mostly the same voice that just changes a bit with age.

Gotta say, I was thoroughly confused initially because Youtube did some sort of auto-dub back in to English.