Do these Actors Sound Southern?--Southern Certified

[@sunnyshines3653]

The way I know a southern accent is good on film or tv is if I don’t notice it because it sounds normal to me.

[@Delgen1951]

if you can't near the "Accent" then it is real, too many actors sound like they have drowned in honey and still cant get it right.

[@TheKyPerson]

Best example is Annie Potts in Designing Women. She grew up in Franklin, Kentucky about 15 miles from where I live. She talks like I talk.

[@t.thompson8985]

Yup!

[@boosterbox3607]

Same

[@ew6075]

Same

[@ericashelton3808]

"This is offensive on multiple levels... As a Southerner... As a woman... And as a human being" 😂😂😂

[@dbg0206091]

This comment gave my husband and I a good laugh. We love the genuine & humble sense of humor.

[@davideldridge3686]

Catherine Bach's Daisy in the TV show was the smartest, and sassiest, person in Hazzard County. Jessica's Daisy, is a box of rocks with a cute face. Sorry I find Catherine's Daisy sexier for the brains and she could use her wiles on me any day.

[@bonkersblock]

Erica Shelton I beg to chikkin? 🤣

[@silverhawk4350]

I mean but it's the stereotypical way people think we talk in the south

[@haljordan3961]

The entire Dukes of Hazzard theatrical movie is offensive imo. But I would blame Jay Chandrasekhar(the movie's director) for Jessica's accent more than Jessica herself since she actually is Southern. But as a fan of the Dukes of Hazzard TV series, I hate Jay Chandrasekhar so I might be biased.

[@teresawise7331]

Being from the south is more than an accent. It’s about the way you carry yourself, your facial expressions, and your mannerisms. Use southern actors & actresses for these roles. There’s talent in the south. ❤️💕❤️

[@SirMoeThe2nd]

Here, here! Definitely agree, but Hollywood seems to be obsessed with casting Brits and English actors for Southern roles so we can be in awe at "omigawd he's British but he sounds like Foghorn Leghorn!" Eff that noise. I'm with ya.

[@a1locc25]

You are so cute!

[@AngelaSealana]

Preachit

[@languagelearningdabbler]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@justagirlhavingfun2766]

Preach sister!

[@Lebst]

How to know when a southern accent is done right: southerners can't hear it while everyone else can.

[@hankkingsley2976]

perfect explanation.

[@alexhook9151]

I have an "accent" that I'm told is a mix of southern, valley girl and generalized basic Californian accent. I don't know where the southern part comes from since I've always lived in Northern California.

[@rjparker268]

Y’all need to judge every actor playing Southern in Sweet Home Alabama.

[@AEE341]

Reese W. is from the South.

[@Sallystarw]

I was waiting for that movie to Come up. Reese is from the south though.

[@rjparker268]

So are Octavia Spenser and Oprah, but they judged them.

[@rjparker268]

Josh Lucas is from Little Rock, so Reese isn’t the only Southerner.

[@fread51]

@@AEE341 yep Dallas Texas

[@stgermain1074]

Kevin Costner sounds about as Southern in JFK as he does British in Robin Hood.

[@julietantonio1049]

The only good thing about Costner as Robin Hood was when Cary Elwes called him out in Robin Hood: Men in Tights

[@grassfedmilkmomma]

@@julietantonio1049 I died when I saw that part!

[@bergamotblonde]

In other words: a travesty.

[@bergamotblonde]

@@julietantonio1049 Truth.

[@mannfan12]

Yep. Costner. One of the worst Southern Accents ever. But what do you expect? He's from Kalifornia.

[@SupaYoda]

Jessica Simpson is particularly offensive because she's a Texan and should know better.

[@MacGuffinExMachina]

Yeah, but the accent was still wrong... but I think on purpose. The scene calls for over the top.

[@bergamotblonde]

I feel like Southern actors probably suffer from directors who aren't Southern pushing them to do worse.

[@TheHeadincharge]

Isn’t it a joke??

[@bunnylacy2097]

MacGuffin that’s what they’re saying. They’re saying that the accent is wrong which is more offensive than it is from any of the other actors shown because she’s Texas. She didn’t say Jessica did it correctly because she’s from Texas

[@RexTheDinosaur1]

@@bergamotblonde It's the same with Irish, Scottish, Australian, or New Zealander accents.

[@KimberlyGreen]

This needs a 2nd round. Please include My Cousin Vinny, Fried Green Tomatoes, Sweet Home Alabama, Sling Blade ... the list goes on. This could be as fun as pronouncing southern town names.

[@timetraveler-zz3ln]

Kimberly G. I’d put Forrest Gump in there as well

[@erincrosssss]

Kimberly G. Hope Floats and Driving Miss Daisy also!

[@TheKyPerson]

Sling Blade has Dwight Yoakam playing Doyle Hargreaves (one of the best villains ever). He's from Pikeville, KY.

[@jadebirdsong1563]

Please include Hope Floats

[@KimberlyGreen]

@timetraveler4000, @Erin Cross, @Jade Birdsong Agreed with all your suggestions ... had them in mind myself but didn't want to create a big ol wall of text :-D

[@miranday9764]

"Do you think she's watching right now? Can I have some money?" 😂😂😂 I know everyone says thanks for the likes but I'm going to say it cuz I really appreciate it...so thanks for the likes!

[@Birdbike719]

Those Mississippi roots coming through!

[@jamesanderson6373]

You're a loser

[@Print229]

Andy McDowell carries her natural southern accent into every role she plays. :)

[@victorwaddell6530]

She is from Gaffney , South Carolina .There is a short road named in her honor in her home town .

[@YouKnowWhereYouWentWrong]

@@victorwaddell6530 When Andie McDowell was in 'Greystoke: the Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes' (Lord, what a long title...) her accent was deemed so thick and 'un-refined' (she portrayed an upper-crust type) that her entire vocal track was stripped and dubbed by Glenn Close.

[@calixtonthepoet]

Honestly, my accent isn't that strong, but when I get excited, I go full Southern.

[@johnwood551]

Hollywood hasn't gotten a Southern accent right since the 1950's. And now anyone they want to portray as ignorant,stupid or uncivilized they make them "Southern". You all are great but it hurt listening to those actors.

[@RexTheDinosaur1]

You forgot racist, sexist (which is beyond being simply ignorant), or evil.

[@tommyhaynes9157]

IMO Hollywood has also over did the upper class non rotic southern accents

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Rod Steiger in Heat Of The Night ? Sounded authentic to me . ? I'm British ....so maybe wrong ??

[@rcschmidt668]

Lots of options from TV shows. Lead characters from CSI Miami and NCIS New Orleans come to mind.

[@Hatingmeisconforming]

We need a part 2 with like" O brother where art thou" and Tombstone and movies like that.

[@reginabillotti]

Tombstone was set in Arizona, and a lot of the people involved were born and raised in the North. No reason for most of them to sound Southern.

[@sleeptalker6646]

Oprah is from Mississippi, so I don't think that one was fair. I was hoping to see Sandra Bullock in the Blindside.

[@MacGuffinExMachina]

Jessica Simpson is from Texas, but the thing is, not all southerners have a southern accent. She's also being over the top for the role.

[@christinac3369]

being from Memphis i will say that Sandra sounded like the character that she played. Not only that but her attitude and mannerisms. She studied that lady to the T. However Terrence Howard accent was trash.Its a region thing to, his southern accent was to pronounced for the area his character is from. He sounds like the people who live in the rural areas around Memphis and not in the city.

[@CCGMASTER]

@@christinac3369 granted I’ve never been to Memphis, but the 2 people I know from there are black and one sounds just like TH and the other sounds similar with a deeper voice and slower cadence. Then again, there’s about 4 different southern accents in my town alone, so it might be a hybrid since they move back and forth.

[@barneyfifem.d8411]

You should have just reviewed literally all of Forrest Gump.

[@barneyfifem.d8411]

@@MrSanteeclaus haha yes 😂

[@helenel4126]

It would have been all zeroes. Fun movie, but no southern accents. Sorry, Tom and Sally.

[@urgurljulesl9986]

JENNAYYYY

[@mustangjane1610]

@@urgurljulesl9986 😂😂😂

[@Christiangirl-qj3wt]

I have heard true southern people talk like Forrest I think they actually did a good job if you ask me

[@CoffeeLover-mz7bk]

Please remember there is more than one Southern accent.

[@doughesson]

There's two types of Southern accents- fake Hollywood southern accents and real Southern accents.

[@heyyall9037]

Jennifer totally agree, I’m from the border of south Mississippi and Louisiana and we sound different than people from other southern states, even a little different than people from the northern part of Mississippi/ Louisiana.

[@cooltrainervaultboy-39]

I can vouch that someone from Texas will sound different than someone from, say, Alabama.

[@pondboy3682]

Reminds me of X Files in some episode where they went to "Kansas" and everyone tawlked lack a baaad Huckleberry Hound! It's like every state south of Chicago is the same! Kansas isn't southern - just your understanding neighbors!

[@pondboy3682]

@@MeadeSkeltonMusic I know that, but I promise that there's an episode where they travel to "Kansas" just once!

[@princesslisamarie7860]

The one thing about the southern accent is that it has evolved over the years. Historical southern accent sounds very different than today’s southern accent.

[@Teewriter]

I was going to comment. For example, people in Charleston don’t have a southern twang at all.

[@princesslisamarie7860]

@@Teewriter I’m from Maryland and many people say I have a southern sound. But it’s a Maryland southern sound. When people think of the south I think of deep South and they don’t realize that there are parts of Maryland and West Virginia they have this too.

[@stephensandiford3981]

Teewriter that is probably because Charleston has a lot of implants from up north and other places

[@2doright647]

And there's at least 2-3 versions of it in Alabama, about 3 versions of it in Tennessee, and about 4 versions of it in Mississippi

[@hankkingsley2976]

@@Teewriter they used to have the non-rhotic just like Savannah but now we're all pretty much the same.

[@SirMoeThe2nd]

All of them Brits on the Walking Dead sound like watered down Looney Toons characters. I love Rick but "STUFF N THANGS!"

[@gunfighterzero]

lmao, you aint wrong

[@paulettaphillips3659]

I can't even get in to The walking Dead

[@SirMoeThe2nd]

@@paulettaphillips3659 I wouldn't recommend it. I'm in too deep to quit now, but I will say the Whisperers so far are pretty sick, and comic loyal.

[@SirMoeThe2nd]

@Silver Galt "Maybe not today, maybe not TOMORRAH!"

[@fread51]

Boom

[@GingerKraut]

Jessica Simpson is not a bad person; she just tried too hard to fill Catherine Bach's shoes as Daisy. Bless their hearts...dont mess with the original!!@

[@Sabbathissaturday]

She could have just spoken normal. She’s from Texas!! 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@TheNanabanana127]

E Wood exactly!!! Her grandparents live in my town. She was raised here in Texas, too but not this town. But anywhere in Texas we speak southern!

[@kamirobey175]

@@Sabbathissaturday Thank you!!

[@echt114]

Excessive or inaccurate use of exclamation points makes you look hysterical or stupid.

[@echt114]

@Joan Halcomb: Well it's good that I'm the kind of person who gives helpful and needed pointers rather than insults. You may or may not be the kind of person who can tell the difference, but I notice you didn't use an exclamation point, so I've racked up another good deed for the day.

[@racheldavin7763]

One of the (surprisingly) best Southern Accents from a non-Southern actor was Martin Sheen playing General Lee in "Gettysburg." It was regionally spot-on. A very close second was just about the entire cast of "Loving," especially Joel Edgerton (an Aussie) & Marton Csonkas (a Kiwi). It wasn't just generic Southern, it was Appalachian Virginia, like it should have been.

[@lynngatrell7965]

Sheen's was all right, if not overly romanticized, and Berenger's was good too, but they're the exceptions. Most of the southern accents in that movie were terrible.

[@pookariah18]

Brad Pitt in Inglorious Bastards did a pretty good East Tn accent. I noticed it right off, and then he said his character was from Tazewell Tn! It was one of the best TV accents I’ve ever heard, very specific and not “generic southern” like most Hollywood movies.

[@kendranannettej.jeffery8925]

Being Southern is more than a voice. It's a way of life,the way you dress,your mannerisms,your body language,the way you cook,and so much more. You've got to be Southern to understand. Hollywood needs to sit down with some real Southerners with some sweet tea&peach cobbler. So come on down,Sugar,and we'll teach ya'll some Southern Sweetness. Greetings from Arkansas,Darlin!

[@bluegrassboy75]

My two favorite actresses playing Southern are Southern in real life. Sissy Spacek (West Virginia) playing Loretta Lynn Reese Witherspoon (Texas) playing June Carter Cash

[@danielleporter1829]

Reese Witherspoon is actually originally from Nashville

[@mustangjane1610]

Sissy Spacek is from Texas.

[@sharynstover1823]

Loretta Lynn is actually from Kentucky the Appalachia area which Kentucky and wv are very similar in culture in their lifestyle and food and accents so I say Kentucky and wv are part of the upper south due to the southern Appalachians surrounding the area

[@cpeterson6974]

Reese Witherspoon in "Sweet Home Alabama"

[@marieantoinettescake9513]

@@MeadeSkeltonMusic Texas IS the South. Get over yourself. Have you heard our accent?? 😏

[@onewomanandsomesongs]

As far as I’m concerned any actor imitating a bad Southern accent is worse than a kitten killer.

[@DS-rt1ed]

LMAO! I totally agree!

[@hz3917]

Basically worse than Hitler

[@elliot6605]

What about an orchestra that sounds like it's killing kittens?

[@kaseyvogl464]

OneWomanAndSomeSongs absolutely not

[@echt114]

As long as the hyperbole is flowing... some of you are either ignorant as hell or are just pieces of shit.

[@eowynofasgard5254]

Val Kilmer's Georgian accent in "Tombstone" was good! That should've been on this!!

[@heatherdevine8255]

Eowyn of Asgard you are right!

[@helenel4126]

@@heatherdevine8255, Yep, he was a sweet huckleberry!

[@aprylakakadance8085]

@@helenel4126 yes ma'am a REAL sweet huckleberry!!😊

[@sissylynn9566]

He can be my huckleberry any time. Lol!

[@TheOReport1994]

Yep!

[@bruceboyce8212]

I've heard a lot of different accents in the South, and these weren't any of 'em.

[@jchristophersmith731]

Ben Affleck's Tennessee accent in Pearl Harbor has to be one of the worst of all time...wish it had been included.

[@snicksabea]

His is awful. Brad Pitts accent In Inglorious Bastards is fabulous.

[@kdk5331]

Another thing, if an actor is playing a Southern character learn how to pronounce the towns in the story. I cringe everytine I hear a non-Southerner say Biloxi.

[@CajunRose]

I know what you mean. I feel the same way when they mispronounce places in Louisiana. Hell, most even mispronounce New Orleans. People from around the area don't drop the "r" or drag out the words. "Nuuuu Oowleeens" 😖 Then ofcourse there's the fake Cajun (🦝ass) accents.🙉

[@MikeRoberts1964]

@@CajunRose "Nawlins"....More like Hell-Naw lins.

[@DytchWytch]

"Bil-aohhh-xi"... lolol! I know what you mean.

[@2doright647]

@@DytchWytch Or worse yet when they say Billehsee. Ugh

[@wdtaut5650]

@@CajunRose I have never heard anyone not from New Orleans (or the immediate area) pronounce it the way residents do. Even in Baton Rouge, it isn't pronounced the way it is in New Orleans. As for other places, I even heard 'Amite' messed up. They don't even attempt "Atrchafalaya".

[@donnabrandenburg9116]

Matthew McConaughey in a Time To Kill - I know he's from Texas and I don't know if he sounded like he's from Mississippi in the movie, but he sure looked good in it! Didn't pay much attention to his accent! LOL

[@mechellenelson4940]

Sometimes if a character looks good enough, who cares what he sounds like but of he CAN nail a southern accent too.......oh mama!

[@justpassingthru3186]

Lol😂👍

[@heatherfeather1293]

YES and he was shirtless a lot in that movie *sighs*

[@stephensandiford3981]

Matthew McConaughey has a natural southern accent he doesn’t even have to try!! Alright Alright Alright!!!

[@rationalconservative386]

Costner was playing the DA of New Orleans. People from the New Orleans area have an accent similar to that of Brooklyn. I know I was confused myself, but my mom quickly corrected me.

[@eliseintheattic9697]

It is a really unusual accent. I was watching a documentary a few days ago about a family from New Orleans and I was completely thrown off by the accent. Sometimes it was very Southern but other times had Northeast Coast sound to it. If that's what Costner was going for, maybe he nailed it. Not sure. I don't think I could replicate it.

[@DytchWytch]

I've never heard anyone not from New Orleans do an authentic New Orleans accent in movies.

[@concernedcitizen9466]

I have noticed the same thing, having visited both places, new orleans more than new york city though.

[@leenam.4578]

Southern accents have changed over the years. My maternal grandfather and his siblings moved from Spartanburg, SC to D.C. in 1920s, (ages early to late 20s) retained their deeply rooted South Carolinian accents. Contemporaries of mine born and raised in the same state, now living in D.C., have much mellower southern accents.

[@Haltech007]

The one actor who had me totally fooled was Connor Trinneer as Trip Tucker in the tv show Enterprise. He was not only Southern, but his character was from Florida. I'm a Florida native from a lineage of Florida natives. I totally thought he was a fellow native Floridian until I saw him in an interview. He has a 'neutral' accent and he is from Calif. Hats off to him.

[@brittanymcguff]

Fun fact: linguistically speaking the southern accent is closest to the British accent of our forefathers. Cajun accent is also closest linguistically to there french founders. I find this super cool!

[@2doright647]

Precisely! Finally! Someone else who has studied this.

[@swalther10]

I totally agree with this. And a lot of people think that “Cajun” is only in Louisiana, there’s Cajuns in south Mississippi south Alabama and a handful in the panhandle of Florida but the further east the less “Cajun French” there is

[@AuntK68]

Notice y'all stayed away from "Steel Magnolias", which is just chock full of some of the worst Southern accents ever!!! (Don't get me wrong, still love the movie but those accents need a "bless your heart"!)

[@rhucks]

I was hoping it would be included. Bless Dolly's heart for having to hear those other actors accents every day on set when she had the only legitimate one.

[@bethshadid2087]

Ikr, Dolly was bout the only true southerner.

[@onewomanandsomesongs]

rhucks I think Julia Roberts is from Georgia, so her accent was more authentic.

[@bethshadid2087]

@@onewomanandsomesongs yeah I do agree, her hometown ain't too far from me. But I didn't hear too much drawl from her like she shied away a bit.

[@AuntK68]

I think Julia tried to get away from a Georgia accent and do a Louisiana one but it didn't quite work. Dolly was just herself so of course she was wonderful!

[@susanweisheit68]

The white people were too nervous to say Taraji didn’t do a great job

[@yougerard1976]

Yep I usually love these videos but I quit watching after that

[@alexh3601]

I think it has more to do with the still largely voluntary segregation of white and black communities in the South. I went to a high school with a lot of black people and I know second hand they can hear a black person from Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, or New York and know immediately where they were from. I definitely couldn't do the same. On top of that, many of the inner city accents up north are heavily influenced by distinct "Southern" characteristics because of the Great Migration of freedmen after the civil war.

[@kennyr1161]

Alex H nigga I live in the south and hang around tons of white kids. I was even invited to a Christmas family gathering was the only black person there and they put their best effort to make me feel Comfortable.

[@nuclearwessels2078]

Taraji played a West Virginian. I didn't know we were Southern, but as a West Virginian, I think she nailed it.

[@2doright647]

@@alexh3601 Voluntary segregation? Where on earth version of the south are you????

[@Emper0rH0rde]

Nothing makes me roll my eyes quite like Hollywood actors trying to act like Southerners

[@jenniferfarrell1937]

Ruben T. Especially that stupid "rich Southern" accent. Who told Hollywood the rich Southerners talk like that? I roll my eyes every time I hear someone talk like that. UGH!

[@livvywilkinson3814]

I Love you so much its a southern thing. If you can wish me happy birthday I'm turning twelve!

[@bethshadid2087]

I may not be one of them...well I'm a southern woman, anyhoos HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂🎉🎈

[@DS-rt1ed]

I'm also not one of them, but I am Southern and I never miss the opportunity to wish someone happy birthday. Happy birthday!!!! I hope it's been a good one. :)

[@bieuxyongson]

Livvy Wilkinson Happy Birthday ‘

[@onewomanandsomesongs]

Livvy Wilkinson I hope you have a very happy birthday. 🎉🎂🎁

[@the_real_littlepinkhousefly]

Happy birthday from Texas!

[@MrMwmussel1]

I feel Oprah was less southern, and more Gullah. Which feels more right anyway.

[@marybroderick8265]

Yes, gullah is totally different, in Charleston SC from English.

[@Teewriter]

Yeah and she’s from Mississippi so what are the chance she sounds southern. Dialect or not. She is from the south to begin with.

[@br5498]

I live in Virginia Beach and get told I don't sound southern at all...I tell people of course not I'm from TEXAS ! I sound like a Texan !

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Louis Grizzard did a thing on Yankee actors trying to be Southern. HE nailed it!

[@bluefamily3937]

Lewis was awesome!!

[@lewiemcneely9143]

@@bluefamily3937 Had to squinch your butt up to say bottle of pop!

[@tracigresham7164]

I didn't want this to end! Should've been longer. Loved this.👍👍

[@NickGreyden]

Jessica Simpson's accent makes more sense when you realise she was playing someone from Georgia who was also, at the time, laying on the charm. It is that formal english accent, like Blanche from Golden Girls who was also from Georgia. I'd give it a good 4/5.

[@CoffeeLover-mz7bk]

Betta is a Louisiana accent btw. My step dad is from there and he says that all the time. I love Alabama and people from Alabama; however, Alabama more than any other state thinks that their accent is the only authentic southern accent. South Carolina is different from Alabama which is different from Georgia and Louisiana is way different. Mississippi has their own and Kentucky has their own and Appalachia has it's own which covers multiple states and is unique. God Bless the South and the Southern people with all of their MANY accents. Amen and Amen.

[@differnet]

In the defense of some of the historic accents, there has been considerable language shift over time. Judging a Southern accent that is supposed to represent the 1960s with contemporary knowledge is foolish. I suggest comparing it to say Governor Wallace's interviews of the time.

[@2doright647]

Yes both Costner's was not even 1960s. It was 1800s

[@moonlithistorian8105]

Uh, Ellen, the accent that George Wallace has hasn't just gone Way, and he definitely doesn't talk that that. You can't fool us, we know southern when we hear southern.

[@moonlithistorian8105]

@@2doright647 not even 1800s, there hasn't been a single time in history we talked like that. They have some bizzare mixture of a variety of different modern accents.

[@luanty3011]

I love the Color Purple. It makes me cry every time they separate the 2 girls playing the hand game together.

[@lovedabunny]

Hey! How's ya momma an 'em? I am a good southern, North Carolina girl but my mother was from England and used to complain Americans tried to do British accents. It used to tear her off the hinges. It used to tear ME off the hinges when I heard non-southerners try a put on a southern accent like you are now. However, WE are too polite to call them on it. Good job!

[@sherrygraham8650]

Lucas Black should be in every southern movie. I wish he would read audio books just so I could listen to him.

[@moniquejones6482]

Glad i saw this. Im older and i was in a play that had southern characters in it, years ago before internet and everyone criticized me for not having a southern accent when I was the only one from Texas. Everyone else was from the North. I was insulted. How dare they...

[@wyntertyme1735]

Oprah went to high school and college as well as worked on the local CBS news station in Nashville TN.

[@acowens6]

Peggy Winters-Stevens and spent her childhood in Mississippi (her childhood was horrible)

[@wyntertyme1735]

@@acowens6 yes she went to HS with my sisters in law. so she had more experience with southern speak. She learned her "professional " voice in college voice and speach class. I bet if asked she could give you a good southern drawl.

[@Cemommster]

Doesn’t mean she still has the accent. She’s been in the Midwest longer. You do lose an accent.

[@Teewriter]

@@Cemommster Point is her formative years were in the south so shes already got a southern accent. Hell I can go live somewhere in the south for a month or two maybe even shorter, and start talking just like them.

[@M0J0HAND]

The worst, most offensive Southern accent ever memorialized on film is Kyra Sedgewick in The Closer.

[@M0J0HAND]

@JW McCabe No. It's not.

[@doughesson]

She's from Nu Yawk City. She ain't "sutthern"

[@andreamiller3578]

I actually thought she did an OK job and thought that was her accent. I have heard folks sound like her. Turns out she's from New York. LOL.

[@wolfalunalee2756]

PREACH!!!!

[@Courtenaycollins]

Then you haven’t heard Michael Rapport in Justified. His is horrendous!!!

[@AyAy008]

5:55 "African Americans all over the globe" *Wut*

[@angelag7992]

The color purple is my all time favorite movie!!! My kids and I have watched it a million times, and never get tired of it ♥️

[@georgemartin4963]

There are many southern accents. Hell, I was raised in Nashville and there was four accents there. Antioch, East Nahville, Bell Meade and North Nashville.

[@stgermain1074]

Belle Meade

[@the_real_littlepinkhousefly]

And then you get into -- what about Texas accents? Are they considered Southern? Some? All? None? My mama is from East Texas and she sounds totally different from the rest of us who were born and raised in West Texas. (She sounds as Southern as fried chicken. The rest of us just sounded kinda hick until we moved off to Big Cities and moderated things a bit.) Then there's Panhandle Texan, and Central Texan, and Valley Texan, and... and... and...

[@georgemartin4963]

Auto correct is a b*tch.😕

[@Delgen1951]

@@georgemartin4963 try it when you are Dyslexic and tpye lkie tihs all teh tmie.

[@georgemartin4963]

Lol

[@butterbeanqueen8148]

Southern accent isn’t a blanket accent. But when it’s wrong in a movie I can feel it in my soul.

[@frankiefrank3422]

I like how they are offended by Jessica Simpson but she’s a southern 😂😂

[@SupaYoda]

That's the reason why we're offended. She didn't use her natural accent.

[@frankiefrank3422]

SupaYoda ummmm have you ever SEEN Dukes of Hazards?! The whole show and the whole movie is goofy and campy. She wasn’t suppose to talk like a new age girl from Texas. They’re suppose to be from Georgia and in all honesty pretty much stereotyping them with their goofy backwoods accents (which is what the director obviously wanted bc Johnny Knoxville, a southern as well, does the same accent)

[@haljordan3961]

@@frankiefrank3422 The movie is far more goofy than the series was and the Broken Lizard guys made the movie that way intentionally. It's no accident that Jessica's accent was offensive.

[@atlfan48]

@@frankiefrank3422 That movie should never be mentioned in the same breath with the show.

[@bobjohnson1710]

Kevin Costner was playing the part of Jim Garrison, the real life DA of Orleans Parish. Jim Garrison, the actual man himself. played the role of Judge Earl Warren in the movie JFK!

[@Nikua13]

I know your list was not exhaustive, but you left out Nicolas Cage Con Air. Octavia Spencer is a gem.

[@languagelearningdabbler]

Yesssssss 😂

[@justpassingthru3186]

Con-Air, one of my most favorite movies of all time! Lol😀

[@justanotherbaptistjew5659]

I’m glad that when I hear a fake southern accent, I’m not the only one who repeats random words that sounded funny.

[@jadeblues357]

Y’all forgot Lucas Black Best southern accent ever in my opinion Siri

[@swalther10]

He’s literally from Decatur Alabama so yeah, he knows he can talk southern

[@lynngatrell7965]

Too bad he's in CSI: New Orleans with actors trying southern accents that are so cringe-inducing it puts the whole cast of True Blood on suicide watch.😵

[@davidsports2214]

GREAT VIDEO Y'ALL!! Please do a Volume 2, same subject, with more southern movies. There are some really good examples of great and terrible southern accents for y'all to choose from. The movies in this video was a good start. Y'all got a new fan right here in Charleston, SC!

[@scottiee1758]

Nicholas Cage trying desperately to do a southern accent in con-air is downright criminal and he should be charged and put on trial for if.

[@Sweetpea1128]

I loved this!! I am a natural Yankee who lived in Mississippi and Texas....both with their distinctively different accents. I thought you all (y’all) nailed it. NOW, I would like to see you critique the Southern accents of the stars in “Gone With The Wind”! 👍🏼😁❤️

[@chloecarlisle5721]

yall should have shown a clip from steel magnolias and tested julia roberts

[@marieantoinettescake9513]

Julia Roberts is from Georgia, and was trying to portray a Louisiana accent. I've known some Louisiana folks and she sounded just fine.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

JFK isn't from the actual city of Boston but he's from Brookline which is in the Greater Boston area and borders Boston. JFK the airport, on the other hand, is in NYC and is nothing compared to Atlanta which is the busiest airport in the world and has Chick-fil-A

[@cisium1184]

Correct. The Boston area, like most other regions, actually has multiple accents which sound the same to outsiders but very different to the local ear. Plus in Boston, accents change with social class as well as geography. So someone from Brookline sounds nothing like someone from Southie, but also sounds nothing like Allston which is right next door to Brookline. And none of them sound much like the North Shore.

[@Teewriter]

@@cisium1184 IKR if people in the comments had any idea about America dialects they would know there are thousands of them and they would be hard pressed to distinguish most of them. That’s takes a linguistic expert.

[@mechellecrosby2621]

Oprah is from Kosciusko MS. She was born and raised with that accent.

[@doughesson]

Then she ruint it hanging out with Yankees

[@Teewriter]

@@doughesson be her own design so she could make tons of money so yeah what a horrible decision.

[@doughesson]

@@Teewriter And denigrated whites who make up 90% of her fan base....

[@BROUBoomer]

Thank you for the video, greatly appreciated. I'm originally from Richmond, but my mother is from Eastern Virginia, and my father is from the mountains of NC just over the VA line. So I have an odd accent and it changes depending on which side of the family I'm talking to. That being said, I moved to Florida at age 10, and tried to hide my accent to keep kids at school from picking on me. But a week back home and there it is again, the south in the mouth accent as my husband called it. Back in the 1980's I worked at the Orlando International Airport, and loved playing the Guess The Southerner Game. I was very very good at it. I could pin point which state they were from, and whether they were from the east side, center, or west side of that state. Because they all follow a pattern. East side of each southern state has more Queen's English cues in their speech. The center of the state is neutral. The west side of the state has a slight twang to it. Until you get to Texas they all have a twang it's hard to tell, and that state is huge, there are so many variations in their speech but they all twang. Only one lady confused me for awhile, I worked with her a couple times a month for awhile. I couldn't place her accent, there was so much Queen's English, but the Southern was very thick. I told her I know you are from the east side of your state, but I can't figure out which state. She asked how I knew she was from the east side? Because of the thick Queen's English. She laughed so hard, she said everyone else at work had made fun of her thick Southern accent and never bothered to hear the Queen's English. She finally said she was from West Virginia, that explains it, I'd only met one person from WV before, and they were from the west side of the state. She was amazed I played Guess The Southerner, and was so good at it. Tourist were also amazed I could guess where they were from with such accuracy. Some time in the 90's the demographics changed. People were moving from up north to the south, and I couldn't play the game anymore, southerners were hiding their accents. When you don't sign your credit card, I have to see your ID. The amount of Yankees with Southern driver's licenses was astronomical; and they changed the sound of the South forevermore. Sad, very very sad thing. We were unique, and proud of the way we spoke for 300 years... Damn Yankees ruined it in a decade. If you choose to move to an area you need to change to meet the normal that's already there; don't expect them to change to be like you. It's not healthy for the locals. In watching Hollywood actors try to portray Southern accents it's funny as all get out. They just don't understand us, or understand the area they are supposed to be portraying. We are unique, and we are the same, at the same time. God bless the South. Take care, stay safe, have a nice day. 👵🙂✌️☮️🖖 😷 🙉🙈🙊

[@Cajungrl66]

Y'all really want to try hard accents, try a true Cajun dialect, a New Orleans Yat accent or someone from 'Da Parish. If you are from Southeast Louisiana, ya know what I mean!

[@paulettaphillips3659]

You should have done lucky Logan! It is Channing Tatum and was filmed in WV. However, WV has a think accent when I went to the bottom of AL their accent was so much thicker than mine they thought I was from the West Coast and couldn't understand me.

[@dougdraper4892]

Try "Lonesome Dove" and "Gone With The Wind" if only for a good comparison.

[@SonOfMuta]

Jessica Simpson wasn’t TRYING a Southern accent, she was using her own accent. Her own Southern accent because she’s from Texas

[@bohunt8113]

That isn't what people from Texas sound like.

[@taylorb.9006]

I agree. Also to your last point, Channing Tatum is from Alabama. Cast him for a southern role.

[@justpassingthru3186]

Cast him for any role! Lol😂😂😂

[@jonathanglenns]

Logan Lucky! He did really well in the role.

[@fredsieber2676]

Love it! Born and raised in the South but have lived in Japan for 20 years. Every time I visit home I get made fun of for losing my Southern accent! My sister says I got "Japanesified"

[@theadventuresofray1471]

What about beautiful creatures. If you could add that movie into one of your videos that would be awesome

[@karenmalay97]

RAY ADAMS Jeremy Irons doing a southern accent was painful to listen to.

[@serafina5052]

Having a bad fake southern accent is literally my biggest movie pet peeve!!!! So glad your reviewing this!

[@oncergirl6600]

God bless anyone reading this ❤️ He loves everyone, no matter what, and always will. Nothing will ever happen that will change His love for you.

[@Tupelo927]

It's been DECADES & yet I'm *still* offended by Dan Aykroyd's absurd attempt at a southern accent in "Driving Miss Daisy." Bless his Canadian heart.

[@michaelmayeux3964]

In Kevin Costner's defense, the character he is playing is from New Orleans. It isn't a traditional southern accent.

[@mannfan12]

I know that. I used to live in NOLA but he was still bad.

[@2doright647]

A southern accent from the 1800s maybe....

[@i-257]

Matt: is she watching Barb: I don’t know Matt: Can I have some money?

[@languagelearningdabbler]

Bless their hearts 🤦🏾‍♀️ (The accents in Jason’s Lyric were horrible)

[@scabbedwings6548]

They were abysmal. I was wondering if I would see anybody else mention that movie. I saw it in the theater and the entire theater was laughing.

[@emmadawson1158]

You guys should do a second one of these and do remember the Titans!

[@snicksabea]

👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@RH-tv9hk]

There are more southern accents than there are US states

[@MariBlough]

Adam Driver in Logan Lucky did the best West Virginia accent I have ever heard from an actor. I know people that sound JUST like that.

[@jennifer082255]

My pet peeve when it comes to movies .

[@reidfarris5176]

Matt -“you think she’s watching?” ......”Can I have some money?”

[@Teewriter]

Odd thing to say I thought.

[@MsKK909]

I’d love for y’all to judge Val Kilmer in “Tombstone” to see what y’all think. There are many different Southern accents and I thought he nailed that aristocratic Georgia accent perfectly.

[@robinwitting2023]

Hi y'all, I'm writing from the North of England. Michael Caine said that when he was due to play a Southerner in a film Vivian Leigh (aka Scarlet o' Hara) told him that all he had to do was practice the phrase : "A four-door Ford" and he would master the Southern accent. When I hear British actors doing American accents even I cringe! I'm really hooked on these Southern Thing videos. In this p.c. age people who are able to laugh at themselves is real buzz. Robin Witting

[@Nocturnal_Rites]

I disagree with the whole 'cast Southern actors'. I'm completely over this 'cast only people who actually are'. The whole point is for them to be able to ACT, not just BE THEMSELVES. How is being yourself ACTING? Besides, how is it beneficial to deny people the chance to learn to broaden their craft? Are we now only supposed to hire English actors if we want them to have an English accent, or Canadian actors for a Canadian accent, or New York City actors for a New York accent...see how ridiculous this gets? That said, I agree with the votes. I wish you'd shown a few more instances of good accents, though. Also a vote for whoever made the mention about actors training with coaches to lose their accents. I worked for the better part of a year to lose mine for radio so I'd have a Midwestern accent. That said, all I have to do is go home and talk to my family for a day or so. I automatically fall right back into line.

[@geekygangster6136]

Love this. Can we talk about James Van Der Beek’s accent in Varsity Blues, though? 😬

[@eliser6053]

y’all need to do this again with but include daniel craig in knives out.. good movie, but the terrible accent *ruined* it

[@LadyOfSummer]

My PawPaw was a carpenter on the set of the Color Purple. He turned telephone poles into trees and made the general store's counter. The movie holds a special place in my family's heart.

[@loydgravitt7733]

There is no such thing as a "Southern Accent". We speak perfectly normally. It is everyone ELSE who has an accent, thank you very much 😁

[@jakethesnake1366]

I like Keanu Reeves but his attempt in Devil's Advocate was hard to listen to.

[@jphilb]

You need a part 2 so you can do Forrest Gump.

[@lacey6800]

Most of these people on these movies accents sound like they tried to do a southern accent but failed miserably.

[@helenholt1161]

I pretty much agree with one tiny exception, the Jessica Simpson accent. That was pure "Georgia Southern Peach." Georgia Southern Peach was to Georgia what Valley Girl was to California, an unfortunate but very real, and thankfully not widespread, accent that was around from the mid 70s through the 90s. It had more sugar in it than sweet tea but thankfully not the staying power.

[@sallyphillips9175]

I'm a 51-year-old GA native and have never heard any female speak like that.

[@shheih285]

I still have episodes of "Val Speak". Mostly to weird out the kiddos. 😇

[@helenholt1161]

@@sallyphillips9175 Lucky you. I am going to guess the average Californian never heard a girl do Valley speak except on TV. But it existed.

[@sallyphillips9175]

@@helenholt1161 I'm sure it did. Maybe it's just because of where I am. Never heard of it, either ... but then again at my age my memory ain't what it used to be.

[@versacegang4140]

Y'all should do more of this! It's so entertaining and interesting

[@jamesweldon8118]

Do Clooney in oh brother where art thou

[@the_real_littlepinkhousefly]

He didn't even try to sound particularly Southern. But the other boys ... oh, Lawd, they's funny! "She done R-U-N-N-O-F-T'

[@ChristChickAutistic]

I do know George's daddy Nick and his aunt Rosemary were from Kentucky.

[@atlfan48]

@@the_real_littlepinkhousefly George got his uncle to help him with dialect as I remember, the bad part about that was the movie took place in MS, and Clooney's accent was more Southern Appalachians.

[@techman210]

Hustle and Flow was filmed in and took place in Memphis, TN

[@tonyawallace5297]

The only critique I have for Terrence is that he talked too slow to be from Memphis. Otherwise, he nailed it.

[@patrickrovira7213]

Costner portrayed DA Jim Garrison. Costner did not pull off the New Awlins accent.

[@karenmalay97]

I’ve never heard an actor pull off a believable NO accent. There’s always too much Alabama or Mississippi in it.

[@patrickrovira7213]

@@karenmalay97 Amen. The only genuine NO accent I ever heard was Keely Smith the singer, and NO native (I believe), in a movie with then husband Louie Prima.

[@michaelmerck7576]

Nawlings

[@RavenclawNimbus]

6:04, "You think she's watchin' right now? Can I have some money? :D "