Hugh Laurie having House do a fake British accent on the phone was pretty great too, especially since it was an exaggeratedly jovial posh accent (essentially Bertie Wooster)https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1217897566790201344 …
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Replying to @bombitagain
Yes, the story is that Bryan Singer was against casting a British actor with a fake accent because he thought they were never really convincing, they always faked something generically "American" rather than a specific time and place
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And so when making this point he pulled up Hugh Laurie's audition tape as an example saying "Look, see, this guy is a real American, you know where he came from and how he was raised"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bombitagain
Which is hilarious because not only was he wrong but it means he didn't even recognize Hugh Laurie, who was far from an obscure actor
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Replying to @arthur_affect @bombitagain
He must have had a good voice coach before then, because whenever he did an American accent for a sketch in the show he did with Stephen Fry back in the 80's, it was really cringe-worthy.
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He said he spent years learning to do an American accent in hopes of breaking into US media, partly because he wanted to do more dramatic roles and in the UK he was typecast as a goofball
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And the House accent actually is really good, too be fair to Singer It isn't a generic "Midwestern broadcaster accent", it has many specific linguistic features of the person House is supposed to be (NY/NJ middle aged educated man with a hint of old fashioned snobbishness)
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