Which Non-American Actors Do The Most Convincing American Accents?
Margot Robbie was definitely American in another life.
Some actors have pretty famously put on fake accents for roles — like Lady Gaga’s Italian accent in House of Gucci and Austin Butler’s Elvis Presely accent in Elvis. Sometimes, however, an actor fakes an accent so convincingly, that viewers are genuinely surprised they didn’t grow up in the same place as the character they’re playing.
For example, in Interview with the Vampire, Jacob Anderson’s slowly disappearing southern accent as Louis de Pointe du Lac had me so immersed that I was genuinely surprised to learn he’s British. It was so good that I didn’t recognize him from a recent stint on Doctor Who, even though I loved his character.
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And in Barbie, Margot Robbie was so perfectly Barbie in every way that I totally forgot she’s Australian!
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And Tom Holland’s American accent as Peter Parker in the MCU’s Spider-Man trilogy really makes me believe he’s just a kid from Brooklyn, not London.
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