![]() Brit Claire Forlani plays Brandi Svenning in Mallrats, set in New Jersey.He's become better at it as he's gotten older, but some of his early films like Darkman are a fairly egregious case of this trope. Liam Neeson, usually when he has to say anything with an "oo" sound, like "you".Count Vronski in Anna Karenina wasn't from Sheffield. His native South Yorkshire accent escapes in virtually all of his movies - including GoldenEye where he refers to James in a way that wouldn't be out of place in Emmerdale. The King of Accent Slippage is Sean Bean.In Big Game, British Jim Broadbent and Ray Stevenson portray American Morris and Herbert, but in both cases, you can hear their native accent from time to time.He has a few slipups in Avengers: Infinity War as well, most notably in the line "It never was" (after Peter Quill asks him if Footloose is still the best movie of all time). While Tom Holland does a convincing Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War, there are a couple of moments where his British accent is noticeable (especially when he's yelling).In Captain America: The First Avenger, British actor Dominic Cooper seems to lapse into his natural accent every few sentences.Mary Reilly Julia Roberts's Irish accent slips noticeably as maid Mary Reilly.The eponymous male lead was played quite well by Northern Irish actor Liam Neeson, but not with the appropriate Cork accent.The female lead is Julia Roberts, whose accent slips from Irish to Southern twang every time she's on screen, most jarringly in her first scene. Most of the cast are Irish and have according accents.Further TV work on crime thriller "Legends" (TNT 2014-15) and "The Frankenstein Chronicles" (ITV Encore 2015- ), as well as roles in films ranging from Ridley Scott's "The Martian" (2015) to notorious flop "Pixels" (2015), kept him in the public eye. By the time of his starring role as Ned Stark on "Game of Thrones" (HBO 2011-18) began, Bean was a well-known actor, which made his character's sudden death early in the show's run that much more shocking. From there, he had supporting roles in large scale features like "Troy" (2004) and "The Island" (2005), while offering compelling turns in smaller movies such as "North Country" (2005) and "The Hitcher" (2007) displaying a versatility that stood Bean apart from his contemporaries. But it was his supporting turn as the proud warrior, Boromir, who falls prey to temptation in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001) that exposed Bean to his biggest audience and turned him into a widely-recognized figure. ![]() Meanwhile, he was a former 00 agent-turned-traitor in "GoldenEye" (1995) before playing an inexperienced spy in the thriller "Ronin" (1998). The following year, Bean was featured as a tough 19th century British officer, Richard Sharpe, in the long-running made-for-television movie series "Sharpe" (ITV, 1993-2008) that gave him steady work over the next couple of decades. feature debut as a vengeance-minded IRA terrorist in the hit spy thriller, "Patriot Games" (1992), which opened the doors for the actor to play a wide range of bad guys. ![]() After spending the latter half of the 1980s making smaller films, he made his U.S. A charismatic screen presence who proved equally effective in romantic leads and as a villain, actor Sean Bean carved his path through the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before making a name for himself on British television and in American films.
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