12 Aussie Accents By Non-Aussie Actors Ranked From "Inauthentic" To "Secretly An Aussie"
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Hello, everyone! My name is Kayla and this is my lovely Australian friend, Natalia.
While the two of us don't share the same time zone, since I'm based in the USA and she's based in Australia, one of our shared interests is our love for Australian characters in movies. However, as I'm not super well versed when it comes to spotting good or bad accents in films, I thought I'd bring in my own Aussie expert to set the record straight when it comes to these actors' portrayals of our friends down under.
Dimension Films
I did some research and picked out 12 actors whose accents are highly debated among Aussie and non-Aussie viewers alike!
Kate McKinnon in Rough Night
A seemingly innocent bachelorette party in Miami goes haywire when a group of women accidentally kill a male stripper.
Listen to her accent here at 0:35:
Quentin Tarantino in Django Unchained
A freed slave (Jamie Foxx), with the help of a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz), sets out on a perilous mission to save his wife from a plantation in Mississippi.
Listen to his accent here at 1:03:
Max Martini and Robert Kazinsky in Pacific Rim
The film follows a small army of humans as they try desperately to fight back against the Kaiju, huge sea monsters that emerged from a portal at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Listen to their accents here:
Meryl Streep in Evil Angels
After their 9-week-old daughter disappears from the campground they were staying at, Michael Chamberlain (Sam Neill) and Lindy Chamberlain (Meryl Streep) try desperately to prove their innocence to the public, who believe they had a hand in their daughter's disappearance. While Evil Angels was the release title in Australia, it was released as A Cry in the Dark in the US.
Listen to her accent here at 0:15:
Daniel Radcliffe in December Boys
Four orphaned best friends find themselves competing for the attention of the same family.
Listen to his accent here at 0:58:
John Lithgow in Pitch Perfect 3
The Barden Bellas hit the road as they join a USO Tour that doubles as a talent competition headed by DJ Khaled. While touring in Spain, Fat Amy's (Rebel Wilson) father, the ruthless crime lord Fergus (John Lithgow), arrives to beg to be in his daughter's life again.
Listen to his accent here:
Benedict Cumberbatch in The Fifth Estate
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg (Daniel Brühl) embark on a quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions in our government and financial systems.
Listen to his accent here at 0:30:
Kate Winslet in Holy Smoke!
After being brainwashed by a guru in Delhi, India, Ruth's (Kate Winslet) parents hire P.J. Waters (Harvey Keitel), a famous exit counselor who specializes in deprogramming members of religious cults.
Listen to her accent here at 0:15:
Liev Schreiber in Mental
After his wife, Shirley Moochmore (Rebecca Gibney), suffers a mental breakdown, Barry Moochmore (Anthony LaPaglia) hires surly hitchhiker Shaz Thornbender (Toni Collette) as a nanny for his five daughters.
Listen to his accent here at 1:27:
Robert Downey Jr. in Natural Born Killers
Mickey and Mallory Knox are fugitive mass murderers on the run from the law while sensational journalist Wayne Gale (Robert Downey Jr.) irresponsibly documents their crimes to his captive audience.
Listen to his accent here:
Emily Blunt in Irresistible
Book illustrator Sophie (Susan Surandon) has it all: a thriving career, a loving husband, wonderful kids. However, her life gets turned upside down by the arrival of her husband's new coworker, Mara (Emily Blunt), who seems to be hiding a mysterious secret.
Listen to her accent here:
Dev Patel in Lion
This true story tells the tale of Saroo Brierley (Dev Patel), a young man who, after being separated from his family in India for 25 years, sets out on a journey to find them.
