How do they hide an english accent?

Question

i've seen it in shows and movies. actors that ACTUALLY have that english accent speak it in real life. but when they're in movies SOMEHOW the accent is gone and it sounds like they're American. how is this done? is it edited or something?

Answer 1

No it's not edited. They learn to speak with our American accent just like if you were playing a role in My Fair Lady you would have to learn to speak with either a proper English accent or a Cockney accent. It's called acting.

Answer 2

No, it's called speaking American dialect. There are several dialects of English spoken around the world and any one person who studies them can learn to speak Austrailian, Irish Cockney, Southern, General American, etc.

Answer 3

There are very few more adept than Brit Hugh Laurie, who has won awards for his portrayal of House on "House." As "House Trivia" says, "Hugh Laurie is English, despite Dr. House's Northeast-American accent. Laurie's American accent was convincing enough that when House producer/director Bryan Singer (unaware of Laurie's true nationality) saw his audition tape, Singer pointed to him as an example of a compelling American actor."

This is how he replied to that question in an interview published at
http://www.accesshollywood.com/news/ah1335.shtml
and aired on access Hollywood

'House's' Hugh Laurie: American Accent Ain't Easy
NEW YORK (August 21, 2006) -- Hugh Laurie, the British actor who won a Golden Globe for his role on the Fox medical drama, "House," says speaking like an American isn't as easy as it sounds.

"I haven't identified a single word that is pronounced the same in America as it is in England," the 47-year-old actor tells Entertainment Weekly magazine in its Aug. 25 issue. "And that can really take you out of the moment, having to constantly listen to yourself and check your accent. It makes it harder to immerse yourself in the scene.

"It's as if you're playing left-handed. Or like everyone else is playing with a tennis racket and you have a salmon. I moan about it a lot."

Laurie plays Dr. Gregory House, the sardonic doctor who heads a medical team specializing in the diagnosis of rare disorders at Princeton Plainsboro Teaching Hospital.

House, whose leg has been crippled by a blood clot, walks with a cane, pops painkillers and has a perpetual stubble. He doesn't like wearing a white lab coat, and he's testy with his patients and staff. However, House is a brilliant diagnostician.

"I could see him very clearly in my head from the start," Laurie tells the magazine. "I could hear him in my head -- the rhythm of his speech. What he was hiding behind the meanness and sarcasm."

Answer 4

Dialect coaching and an indefinable thing called "talent".

There is a reason why people get paid to act.

Answer 5

Same way americans fake a british accent...PRACTICE!

Answer 6

exactly what she said.They fake it just like we fake a British accent. :) Practice makes perfect!