The 10 Worst Movie Accents of All Time
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Casting a famous actor in a role can be a crapshoot. Just because a director can snag a big name for their film doesn't always mean that they belong there. Case in point, generally talented and experienced actors, when asked to do foreign accents, may stumble somewhat...or they may stumble a lot. Here, we've listed 10 of the worst examples of famous actors doing infamously bad accents:
10. Brad Pitt - Snatch. (2000)Should Pitt be exempt from making this list for this particular role, given that we weren't supposed to be able to understand a word he was saying? Some have said his Irish "Pikey" accent was actually decent, and appropriately incomprehensible. Hard to tell how good an accent is if you can't understand it, though. Thus, he ekes his way onto the bottom of this list.
9. James Van Der Beek - Varsity Blues (1999)
No one expects detail-oriented dialect work in a teen movie. Congratulations, James Van Der Beek, your West Texas drawl met our worst expectations.
8. Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz - Gangs of New York (2002)
DiCaprio's is just a bad Irish accent. But Diaz isn't sure from moment to moment if it is a New York or an Irish accent she is supposed to have in this film. Fittingly, then, they share the honor on this one.
7. Drew Barrymore - Ever After (1998)
We haven't heard Barrymore do a British accent very often, and here's why. It's an accent so canned and stale, only a cheesy fan video can do it justice:
6. Nicole Kidman - The Interpreter (2005)
It is not clear what African country Kidman's character Silvia is supposed to be from, but it's not on any map we've seen.
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