British Actors Are Better At Playing Americans Than....

[Busyman]

.............American actors are at playing Britons.

Jamie Bamber (Apollo/Lee Adama) on Battlestar Galactica and Hugh Laurie (Gregory House) on House are prime examples.

Hugh Laurie is especially good. He totally makes that show...

[SpatulaGeekGirl]

No duh. :dry:

[GepperRankins]

.............American actors are at playing Britons.

Jamie Bamber (Apollo/Lee Adama) on Battlestar Galactica and Hugh Laurie (Gregory House) on House are prime examples.

Hugh Laurie is especially good. He totally makes that show...
o rly? i thought house was embarrassingly bad :unsure:

[JPaul]

.............American actors are at playing Britons.

Jamie Bamber (Apollo/Lee Adama) on Battlestar Galactica


If the chaps on Battlestar Galactica are from a far distant planet, how in the name of feck would that make them American. Or are all goodies just assumed to be American.

[Gripper]

Don't think Hugh Lawrie's trying to be american in House,is he?
t'is a fun programme though

[scott_pd]

Yea, hes meant to be from New Jeresey aint he? Well i know he is meant to be American atleast, still a good show wheather he is supposed to be American or English.

[Yogs]

Michael Gambon as president of the USA was painful, to name just one.....

[Mr. Mulder]

bsg ftw.

fiiw.

[Yogs]

.............American actors are at playing Britons.

Jamie Bamber (Apollo/Lee Adama) on Battlestar Galactica and Hugh Laurie (Gregory House) on House are prime examples.

Hugh Laurie is especially good. He totally makes that show...

Agreed.

He IS the show!

Without him it would 've been canceled............

[Busyman]

.............American actors are at playing Britons.

Jamie Bamber (Apollo/Lee Adama) on Battlestar Galactica


If the chaps on Battlestar Galactica are from a far distant planet, how in the name of feck would that make them American. Or are all goodies just assumed to be American.
I was told by one of yer UK counterparts that he has an American accent.

For instance, Baltar is British.

If you couldn't figure that out without me saying ACCENTS then you need to sit a corner with your dunce cap on.

[Proper Bo]

For instance, Baltar is British.


Nice British name.

[Busyman]

.............American actors are at playing Britons.

Jamie Bamber (Apollo/Lee Adama) on Battlestar Galactica and Hugh Laurie (Gregory House) on House are prime examples.

Hugh Laurie is especially good. He totally makes that show...

Agreed.

He IS the show!

Without him it would 've been canceled............
He just cracks me up. No one else could play that part with such quality.

I love the part when he said, "Bros before hoes, man."

[Busyman]

For instance, Baltar is British.


Nice British name.
ding ding Another one.

Go sit in da corner.

[Proper Bo]

Yup, that's me certainly proved moronic:dabs:

[Busyman]

Yup, that's me certainly proved moronic:dabs:
I didn't evensteven have to write a paragraph.;)

[manker]

If the chaps on Battlestar Galactica are from a far distant planet, how in the name of feck would that make them American. Or are all goodies just assumed to be American.
I was told by one of yer UK counterparts that he has an American accent.

For instance, Baltar is British.

If you couldn't figure that out without me saying ACCENTS then you need to sit a corner with your dunce cap on.No, for instance Blatar has a English accent. He isn't a British character, as your assertion 'Baltar is British' suggests - he's from Caprica.

It's all well and good you telling us that we should be able to decipher your prose but if you wrote it properly in the first place, it wouldn't be neccesary.

If you meant that English actors mimic American accents better than American actors perform English accents, you should have said so.

[Busyman]

I was told by one of yer UK counterparts that he has an American accent.

For instance, Baltar is British.

If you couldn't figure that out without me saying ACCENTS then you need to sit a corner with your dunce cap on.No, for instance Blatar has a English accent. He isn't a British character, as your assertion 'Baltar is British' suggests - he's from Caprica.

It's all well and good you telling us that we should be able to decipher your prose but if you wrote it properly in the first place, it wouldn't be neccesary.

If you meant that English actors mimic American accents better than American actors perform English accents, you should have said so.
I know 'cause some folk are dumbfounded...:wacko:

Example: Who the fuck is Blatar? I know of no such character.:huh:

[manker]

My bad, I meant to type Baltar.

[Busyman]

My bad, I meant to type Baltar.
Thanks I was getting really ocnfsued. :crazy:

Anyone know what JP means by


Or are all goodies just assumed to be American.

Is that the inferiority complex crap rearing it's ugly head.:ermm:

[manker]

Transposition errors can be a bitch.

[Proper Bo]

Yup, that's me certainly proved moronic:dabs: I didn't evensteven have to write a paragraph.;)

Yup, your superior intellectual wit certainly showed me:(

[Busyman]

I didn't evensteven have to write a paragraph.;)

Yup, your superior intellectual wit certainly showed me:(
And


I didn't evensteven have to write a paragraph.

[Proper Bo]

Please stop, you're wiping the proverbial floor with me here.

[manker]

Anyone know what JP means by


Or are all goodies just assumed to be American.

Is that the inferiority complex crap rearing it's ugly head.:ermm:Oh cool, you're editing after I've responded again.

Yeah, I know what he meant - he was being sarcastic.

You have to be a special kind of stupid not to realise that.

[Proper Bo]

I didn't realise bustychap didn't notice sarcasm......

[manker]

I didn't realise bustychap didn't notice sarcasm......
Well, he is American :rolleyes:


You do realise that after your sarcastic capitulation - he's probably told everyone else at the telephone factory that he's just pwned a Geordie.

[Virtualbody1234]

Thanks I was getting really ocnfsued. :crazy:

That seems like something that happens quite easily.

[Proper Bo]

awww bless 'im:lookaroun

[manker]

awww bless 'im:lookarounIf I seen him in the pub, I'd pat him on the head and buy him half a pint of mild.

Maybe give him 30p for pool as well.

[Proper Bo]

30p? it's a squid up here:dabs:

i'd be more the type who'd give him the rest of me kebab while he was loitering around outside looking lost

[manker]

30p? it's a squid up here:dabs:It's a quid in town, like.

I just imagined him to be the type who wouldn't dare go to a busy pub but sits quietly in the local sipping half a diet Tango for hours. Getting all worried, due to small stature and bitch titties, if a group of lads came in - in case they took the piss.

I'd buy him an half and give him pool money so when he got home, he could tell his Mam that someone likes him :cry:

[Proper Bo]

he'd get a photy of you two with his arm round you too

[manker]

It'd be a top of the range Samsung D600 camera phone 'cos he's got feck all else to spend his incapacity benefit on :dabs:

[Proper Bo]

then he wouldn't need your 30p, scrounging get!:dabs:

[Busyman]

Anyone know what JP means by



Is that the inferiority complex crap rearing it's ugly head.:ermm:Oh cool, you're editing after I've responded again.

Yeah, I know what he meant - he was being sarcastic.
What's sarcastic about that?

[manker]

Oh cool, you're editing after I've responded again.

Yeah, I know what he meant - he was being sarcastic.
What's sarcastic about that?Nothing, nothing at all.

:lookaroun

[Busyman]

Thanks I was getting really ocnfsued. :crazy:

That seems like something that happens quite easily.
Show me another time.

[Busyman]

What's sarcastic about that?Nothing, nothing at all.

:lookaroun
That's what I figured.:rolleyes:

[manker]

That seems like something that happens quite easily.
Show me another time.One post up.

[Busyman]

Show me another time.One post up.
If it's genuine. I don't have Skizomoments.

[Gripper]

I think an american is being played by an englishman now:shifty:

[manker]

I think an american is being played by an englishman now:shifty:You'd better not be talking about me :fist:

[manker]

I'd rather be a merkin than an Englishman :snooty:

[Gripper]

I'd rather be a merkin than an Englishman :snooty:
Ahhh shaddup taff:P

[manker]

Gotta say that - Six Nations is just around the corner :schnauz:

[Gripper]

Are you ready to lose again?

[Cheese]

Johnny Depp does a good British accent.

[Santa]

Tom Cruise plays american very well for a British

[Virtualbody1234]

That seems like something that happens quite easily.
Show me another time.
:lol: :lol:

[JPaul]

Look, Busy knew what he meant when he started this thread.

The fact that he posted something entirely different is everyone else's fault. Why should he have to do all the work for you lot.

FFS stop trying to work out what people mean by the words they type (allied to their order, obviousement).

You people.

[Busyman]

Look, Busy knew what he meant when he started this thread.

The fact that he posted something entirely different is everyone else's fault. Why should he have to do all the work for you lot.

FFS stop trying to work out what people mean by the words they type (allied to their order, obviousement).

You people.
:snooty:

Eggszacklee. Apollo is in outer space (and from Caprica to boot) so I couldn't possibly have been talking about his accent but his nationality.

All the goodies are American. :01:

[JPaul]

All the goodies are American. :01:
Indeed.

I believe that Luke Skywalker was from a small farm, somewhere in the vicinity of Arkansas.

[Busyman]

All the goodies are American. :01:
Indeed.

I believe that Luke Skywalker was from a small farm, somewhere in the vicinity of Arkansas.
:lol: :lol:
Damn Darth Vader was a Briton too.

A Dark Knight he was.

[JPaul]

Indeed.

I believe that Luke Skywalker was from a small farm, somewhere in the vicinity of Arkansas.
:lol: :lol:
Damn Darth Vader was a Briton too.

A Dark Knight he was.
Yeah but he was nice before he went to the dark side, over your way.

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/g/greencrosscode1.jpg + http://tralfaz-archives.com/comics/geary/Hollywood%20Sign.jpg = http://www.transom.org/shows/photos/200210.vader1.240.jpg

[SpatulaGeekGirl]

My brother

[orcutt989]

I always wondered how British actors/actresses played Americans. I thought it would be funny to watch a British actor play someone from Texas. I always wondered how they would suppress their accents while playing Americans.

[Busyman]

I always wondered how British actors/actresses played Americans. I thought it would be funny to watch a British actor play someone from Texas. I always wondered how they would suppress their accents while playing Americans.
Tbh, they seem to do it very well.

Not a Brit but Kenneth Branagh is from Ireland.

[Busyman]

:lol: :lol:
Damn Darth Vader was a Briton too.

A Dark Knight he was.
Yeah but he was nice before he went to the dark side, over your way.

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/g/greencrosscode1.jpg + http://tralfaz-archives.com/comics/geary/Hollywood%20Sign.jpg = http://www.transom.org/shows/photos/200210.vader1.240.jpg
http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/g/greencrosscode1.jpg
HE IS A GEY.:mellow: