Separated at Birth, part 11

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Natalie Portman: American actress who does a cringeworthy British accent

Keira Knightley: British actress whose American accent I haven't heard

  • Amphibious

    It is a fact universally acknowledged that yanks can’t do accents of any kind, never mind the elisions & glottal stops of Blighty’s multitudinous dialects/regional & class intonations but have you ever heard a pom try to do amerikan? Makes the ears bleed & teeth ache but, fortunately, enough refugees from Benighted States live in the UK to enable the Beeb to get them cheap for radio plays.

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