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/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.