Meryl Streep Could Pretend to Be You, The Person Reading This

[@FactFiend]

Hi, if you're reading this why not check out Wiki Weekends - www.youtube.com/@wikiweekends - Karl

[@ChaoticOccasus]

Cumberbatch literally matched House' accent bar for bar in Dr. Strange

[@samclydemayes]

I noticed that as well.

[@CheerfuEntropy]

they went to (essentially) the same school about it. If you listen youll notice there is a specific "standard american" accent that gets taught in the uk. Listen for the "r"s they all go a little too hard on em

[@sunniedunbar6889]

Unfair! Doing different accents is practically a survival trait for British actors, what with having half a dozen dialects in twice as many miles!

[@Miner_Bob]

That's the first time I've seen the clip of Meryl Streep doing an Australian accent. As an Australian viewing it, she nailed it. I understand why she got that award.

[@mackapacka2695]

I can count the number of people on one hand who can do a convincing Aussie accent on one hand and she was perfect

[@what-z2f]

Christian Bale always does his promotional interviews in the accent he does in the film, so a lot of his most famous films (at least here in the states), American Psycho (it's even in the name), The Batmans, the Terminators, Public Enemies, Howl's Moving Castle, none of us would have ever expected he's from Wales.

[@unsolved86]

Nothing like 5 kilos of sausage on your lap with the boys.

[@jenniewomack5113]

I used to work with multiple German people and one once told me that another's accent was the equivalent of a hillbilly accent.

[@BeOtterMyFriend]

Was it a Bavarian accent?

[@jenniewomack5113]

@@BeOtterMyFriend I think so yes.

[@partyontheobjective]

not mentioned in this episode: Christian Bale (can do fantastic accents) and Michael Caine (Cockney ONLY).

[@MrAnonymouscrazy]

Most Americans can barely name a few different British accents and just try and fail to sound posh and use “the queens accent “

[@bethmarriott9292]

Karl's new challenge is to say "elocution lessons" five times in a row as fast as he can

[@Ashen.Elixer]

Don't you mean Elocushion Leshions?

[@lucyj8204]

Joke's on Meryl Streep - I'm hyperlexic autistic so my accent wobbles about all over the place depending on who I'm talking to and how tired I am. Incredible the work people will do to support a role.

[@Lillith.]

My best friend has the same thing. He doesn't notice and people get so annoyed when he switches. He's learnt and will now tell people who have very distinct accents he copies accents by accident.

[@Lightning1998JBD]

I didn’t even notice Storm was trying to speak in any kind of accent in the first X-Men

[@wilbo_baggins]

I remember Anthony hopkins had put a really strong new Zealand accent for burt munroe in worlds fastest indian. You'd think it's overkill until you hear actual burts voice.

[@donutchan8114]

Im billingual, so my accents are limited to pretending i learned either language as my second language, which i couldnt do convincingly until i was in my teens. However, my default spanish accent annoys my parents as it sounds like i was born and raised in my moms village even though ive never left the states, so to piss them off i just lean into it more.

[@HereBeDragonsYT]

Ella Purnell is actually AMAZING at an American accent. Both as Jinx in Arcane and as Lucy in Fallout. And they're 2 different American accents.

[@Jiian]

I always called it being an accent chameleon. I have it to some degree. She's on a whole 'nother level. Just always loved that aspect of her.

[@NicoleDowding-x3d]

As a northern Californian who speaks Japanese, I have never felt so specifically called out 😂

[@Scriven42]

Buddy partying when Thatcher died, with the Keffiyeh on. ✊ for them, but how sad is it that it's never stopped...

[@apedanger]

I worked with her on Iron Lady and her absorption of character was phenomonal.

[@charlieboy6315]

Jodie Comer in Killing Eve gives a masterclass in a smorgasbord of accents - the only one she (deliberately) never did was her native Liverpudlian, which she said would come too close to breaking the 4th wall!

[@Zuginator]

I watched an interview with an voice coach specialist in accents. He said that there are plenty of Americans with great British accents, but they usually live in Britain. We see a lot of British actors in Hollywood and they studied to do an American accent just like an American in Britain studies for that accent.

[@NickTheMagnificent]

In defense of American actors, we aren’t generally exposed to many accents as a country.

[@Demonslayre]

Or more accurately, the ones we are exposed to are american; i.e. Hawaiian, southern, Wisconsin, west coast, new York, Boston, etc.

[@craigsi16]

There's plenty of cultural diversity in the US, as well as media from other countries that you have easy access to. Especially if you're working, or interested in working in that medium yourself

[@theHalken]

​@@craigsi16media, sure. But there's a difference being exposed to native speakers in person.

[@craigsi16]

@@theHalken did you not read the part where I said there's a lot of cultural diversity is the US? And even if their wasn't, Nicks comment still doesn't hold any weight

[@Lillith.]

I can do accents in English, but it will never seize to amaze me when British people think I'm English. I was in a Discord call right after Brexit with some Brits and at some point I noticed that one of them included me in the people that would be affected by Brexit and I ignored it because I thought it must've been a mistake until he told me that I was lying because "we don't have that in Great Britain" and I told him I was't British and he was surprised. I also love it that people don't know where in my country I'm from because, growing up, I decided I didn't want the very distinct accent the region I'm from has. There's one thing that will give away where I'm from, but you'd have to know it's a thing in the town I grew up in or you'd look in the wrong part of the country. Only one person I've ever met knew it because her husband was from my town and the region I'm from is pretty vocal about not being from the other part of the country.

[@john-Ro]

Honestly just nice to hear a fellow Yorkshireman on KZbin.

[@eggarts9562]

Colin Morgan in Merlin, I had no idea he was Irish and I heard him talking in his normal voice in an interview

[@chrisfeld3650]

Straight up, Streep is a master spy. No wonder she played Julia Child.

[@LordIronfist]

One of the many (what are there, 50+?) "British" accents sounds pretty close to the Australian one, but I don't remember which area it came from, I mistook the man for Australian-ish (I actually suspected it might have been a south African accent, since-to me at least-that sounds sorta in the middle ground between Australian and the general "British" accents) and I felt bold enough to ask-sadly, not in a way that allowed an answer that wasn't him having to correct me guessing wrong-and it surprised me that he was from Britain. Well, obviously it surprised me, since I asked if he was from the completely wrong country, hahaha... however, it wasn't just because I was on that Prison Break show. It genuinely fooled me, which isn't saying much, but, I actually do try to remain observant and not to make assumptions...what I mean is, it wasn't just a dumb American "all the English-speaking language accents sound the same" situation. It sounded much closer than any I had heard up till then. And it threw me for a loop so much that I totally failed to pay attention to where in Britain he said he was from. I mean, I AM actually a dumb American, but I still remember this story and laugh at how I totally pulled a dumbass American move in that moment. I just wish I could remember which region he was from!

[@Bowieenery]

Andrew Garfield, Tom hardy and Cillian Murphy comes to mind also especially with American accents that have become mega famous

[@joselozano5479]

Tom Holland too

[@dcbandit]

Me being autistic, i have more trouble understanding the way people in my own country talk when they speak english than those peoples from the isles and all their accents. Im still not great at naming accents, though.😅

[@ItsSkingles]

Meryl Streep is an actual actor, Tom Cruise just has a lot of money behind him

[@RhapsosProductions]

I saw bits of A Cry in the Dark when I was younger and only within the last decade did I find out that Meryl Streep is not Australian. You could say that, as a child, I wouldn't have been able to tell if it was good, but my mum also watched a lot of Neighbours and Home & Away, so I think I had a good ear for the Aussie twang! As someone originally from Wolverhampton, I can confirm even some Brummies hate the accent, but those of us from nearby in the West Midlands hate being called Brummies even more. It's like saying Karl's from Lancashire, and should only be done as an absolute last resort to your worst enemy

[@SleepySlann]

Brad Pitts Italian accent in inglorious bastards keeps reminding me of his "accent" in snatch, where they had to subtitle him. And apparently it was easier to make him do a convincing Irish traveler accent than a working class English one

[@Eshvongelion]

I'd feel real bad for anyone spending time being me, it's rough.

[@anewspinonthings]

Hey yo, Are you doing okay homie?

[@Perry2186]

I guess I don't understand what brits say is an American accent. Because here in the US we have several accents, I mean, someone from minnesota does not talk like someone from arkansas

[@Ashen.Elixer]

It's usually a sort of received California or broadly Midwest accent

[@theHalken]

I think it's sort of a "filed off" thing. I think all countries have a version that's how people sound when they try to drop all accent sounds, that's from when radio started and the goal was to sound "national" instead of having a regional accent so some sort of fake non-accent developed.

[@denim_ak]

Cruise learned flair bartending, Olympic running, flying helicopters and fighter jets but couldn’t learn an accent. Guess thats in the next zeta level.

[@SinRayquaza]

Playing Space Marine 2 and 1 of the leader guy has a Scottish accent and same with Metaphor. A frw Scottish accents in there too. I also like seeing Cantonese bring used in western media because that's a very niche dialect in comparison to Mandarin. I was very surprised to hear Cyberpunk use Cantonese as their chinese

[@achliscantplay4202]

Good luck doing a southern-Russian living in Ireland for 10, then in Australia for 15 years. My sister and nieces laugh in my face on skype over every word 😅 And I still get asked to go "more Russian" for every voiceover recording... "I vyll oksydaiz yooo, Meester Ayeron! Prrrrrepare to rRrRrrRrrRrust!" - Ms. Okseedzhen... for an educational chemistry program in Au and NZ 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ It felt like a little personal victory, once i started to recognize Kiwi students from their greetings 1st time in a lesson 😊

[@frothyground7075]

This channel is GRRReeat!

[@jasonmorley9217]

As an Australian- YOU’RE NOT BLOODY WRONG.

[@haylookatthis]

Plz we need to hear more yorkshire accents plz also hi from Leeds big up the steelers

[@chicken_permission]

I'm also petting my sausage

[@Chet_Manly]

This is the only Grade A quality remake/reboot of something I've ever seen in over a quarter of a century.

[@mesha514]

thank you.

[@LauraParker36]

from a kiwi - it's so nice to hear someone likes the new zealand accent :,)

[@evecates2232]

Identity theft is a crime, Jim.

[@kellenfurter]

I went to ohio for a weekend and came back, people kept asking where i was from. Then, i had a British friend i spent alot of time with who rubbed off on me quite a bit.

[@TrustynHERO]

I wanna see That movie, where she beats and alien to death, impersonates it to infiltrate their forces saves the planet lol😄😄🧡🙌👽💥😜😁🥰

[@danteshollowedgrounds]

Yeah, literally just that good at characters.

[@ChaoticOccasus]

11 pounds of sausage 🌭

[@TheFerezCHannel]

5 years ago, genuine question, how do you keep track?, do you have a checklist of topics/articles, or just by memory?

[@adenansu]

upvote for the Boys from the Dwarf

[@khartog01]

Move back to Ireland because his kids develop a British accent is legend.

[@BehindTheMustche]

Many british actors don’t nail the regional accent of the character they play. Most do a generic American accent for the most part, Americans can tell we just don’t really care as much as British people when it comes to that

[@AdamMansbridge]

Confusing Australian and British accents is easy, presuming the British accent in question is Cockney Not that anyone familiar with either would confuse them

[@nedybob]

Anyone know the song name at the end?

[@itastain]

Same as the song at 17:49. Sunrise Skater kids - Misery Business. Originally by Paramore

[@mikeblank6667]

You know karl if you didn't want me to go listen to a Japanese cover of misery Business by Paramore then you shouldn't have put the clip in the video but luckily I came back

[@jeremypalmer5695]

Speaking of The Boys. I was shocked to find out Anthony Star (Homelander) was a Kiwi. Kind of glad he is a natural brunette with a Kiwi accent because he plays such a good villain I can't help but dislike him.

[@seanbyrne5313]

Paramore is from Franklin Tennessee and has my accent! I'm a simp?

[@CupcakeNavi]

How would you rate Cillian Murphy's Birmingham accent in Peaky Blinders? I've always thought he sounded handsome and intelligent.

[@DivineFalcon]

So Meryl Streep is basically a human lyrebird?

[@theangrygazebo6224]

Red Dwarf!!!

[@loripara141]

LETS GO, JUST IN TIME FOR MY LUNCH BREAK! 🎉Ty! 😁

[@marvinmurphy5523]

You're Brits, of course you're going to rave on your own, and good on ya.🇺🇸

[@evanlinden4410]

Another German actor who could have done better than Tom Cruise: Daniel Bruhl

[@Ashou1]

Why is she so hated?

[@nicholaslogan5185]

Does anyone come to a fact fiend video for the fact? Or is it just for the random bulshit that happens before and after the fact? I love this show ❤🎉

[@Morbazan125]

Can’t think of the guys name but I think he was famous for some reality show and now he does ads, really tan but his teeth are so white it’s all you can focus on

[@only1dat]

Sorry you have to downplay your accents. People need to open there ears.

[@AstonMattison]

Heya

[@auranoah9022]

No views club

[@stevejacobs-e6t]

seventy sixth

[@zachcox2116]

38 seconds

[@Disembodiedjesus]

am I 1st?