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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Matthew Rhys! I was shocked when I saw him on an interview a few years ago and realized he was Welsh. He does such a good American accent in everything he’s done. [/quote]

+1 -- Also Damien Lewis -- though he's not quite as good as Rhys.  Lewis has said that the hardest American accent sound for Brits to master is an "r" in the middle of a word.  He gave an example if dialogue from Band of Brothers where he had to say "It hurts."   [/quote]

DP. Not to derail, because the OP was about American actors doing other accents (despite the thread title) -- but, YES! This is a great example you give. The hard "R" sound in so much American English is tough for Brits and sometimes a less experienced British actor will bear down too hard on the R and over-emphasize it. I think the flip side is true as well; Americans doing various British accents seem to have a hard time being convincing with the softer, "ah"-like R. [b]Think, "It hurts" but with (let's say) an English received pronunciation accent, like, "It huhts" -- so easy to overdo the [i]lack[/i] of the hard R.[/b]

There is a terrifically interesting dialect coach who works with a lot of actors and who does very informative YouTube videos. Erik Singer. Look up some of his videos. Fascinating. And he does a lot more than just US-British and British-US dialect coaching. He talks about the Leo DiCaprio "Blood Diamond" accent in one of his videos, I believe. [/quote]

Yes.  And the Americans end up sounding like they're from Georgia or Alabama for a minute.  :)[/quote]

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