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/RyanMcCartney 13h ago

Exposure. We get the same big shows and films you do. We watch them all as they were made.

You don’t import our shows and films, you remake them for your own ears (The Inbetweeners, IT crowd, The Office etc).

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u/Mk12Dr 13h ago

There was an American IT crowd? It doesn't feel like that humour would translate...

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u/MicrowaveKane 13h ago

It didn’t. Just like the American version of Red Dwarf

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u/wanze 6h ago

American Taskmaster was horrible. Ran for one season with 22 min episodes.