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25 Times Actors Botched Their Accents In TV and Film

At its core, acting is all about pretending to be someone else. And sometimes, that means speaking with a fake accent.

Some actors are great at this! Others, not so much. With the help of Reddit, we rounded up the worst accents in TV and film so you know what to avoid!

1.

Tom Cruise's Irish accent in Far and Away. Worse, I was watching it in Ireland at a movie theater when it came out. The audience was laughing so hard it was difficult to hear the dialogue.

2.

Highlander. Get Christopher Lambert to play a Scots Man, and Sean Connery to play a Spaniard. Great film, though.

3.

I once saw a Scottish stand-up comedian talk about Scotty from Star Trek" He was the only one we couldn't understand! We thought he was a Pakistani with epilepsy!"

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4.

Kate Winslet won't watch Titanic because she hates how her American accent sounded.

5.

John Wayne as Genghis Khan

6.

Kevin Costner's "English" accent in Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves is so bad, it is almost a parody.

7.

Natalie Portman in V For Vendetta. Supposed to be British, ended up sounding like rural Maine."You cut my HEH!"

8.

Not as bad as some of the others mentioned here but, Emma Watson’s American accent in movies like The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Her English accent always slips through.

9.

Every movie that Gerard Butler has with his horrible American accent. Just let the guy talk with his Scottish brogue!I'm always embarrassed for him.

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10.

Anthony Hopkins playing a Hispanic person in Zorro

11.

Scarlet Witch's accent was not only weird, but she lost it from one movie to the next. They even made fun of it in Wandavision

12.

Benedict Cumberbatch as Billy Bulger in "Black Mass" always comes to mind.

13.

John Lithgow as an Aussie in Pitch Perfect 3.

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14.

Fiona’s (Gabrielle Anwar) awful Irish accent in Burn Notice. It was so bad I almost couldn’t watch the show.

15.

Kendra, played by Bianca Lawson, in Buffy the Vampire Slayer

16.

John Malkovich's Russian accent in Rounders.

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17.

Nicolas Cage in Con Air

18.

While I love the movie, Drew Barrymore's British accent in Ever After was bad.

19.

Sons Of Anarchy when they 'visited' Ireland. Abysmal. Just employ Irish actors, there are f*cking sh*t loads of them.

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20.

I love that bit in David Tennant's run of Doctor Who where his companion attempts a Scottish accent and David Tennant (who is Scottish) just goes "please stop that" in character

21.

Keanu Reeves in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Love the guy, but no. Just bad, bad, bad.

22.

Sean Connery's Russian in "The Hunt for Red October""A shite for shore eyesh."

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23.

Every fake accent Steven Seagal has.

24.

Half the people on True Blood.

25.

Cameron Diaz in Gangs of New York. Comes and goes, and is difficult to figure out what accent she’s doing.

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