Hardest Accent to replicate

Since this thread is all about actors who can't do a good accent, I am wondering which you think is the hardest to replicate.

 

Boratian.

 

Boston. If you're not from there, don't bother trying -- you'll likely fail and fail miserably. See Costner, Kevin.

 

F) South Bostonian. see Ward Burton.

 

As a southerner who went to college in Boston, I've heard many of my southern friends brutalize a Boston accent when the subject of my schooling comes up. Truly, truly horrendous...about as bad as a Bostonian trying to imitate a Southerner.

One place to start if you're trying to use a Boston accent is to decide if you're going for the working-class (Johnny Most, Click and Clack) accent or the Brahmin-elite accent (Kennedys). They're pretty different.

Hardest one to replicate though? My vote goes to the New Orleans accent, white-people version. Irish and Italian influences make this very weird when comapred to other Southern accents. I thought the characters in Oliver Stone's JFK did a pretty good job with replicating this difficult accent, BTW.

 

Oklahoma. Not quite Texas, not quite Arkansas.

 

I've done some community theaters and small independent movies and the most difficult on that list would be Irish, simply because it's so easy to slip into English or Scottish if you're not entirely focused.
The most difficult of all for me has been South African. That unique combination of English and Dutch is very distinctive and difficult.

 

I'm just sorry that "boots' neighbor, mid-bang" isn't an option.

 

The next good Southern accent I hear in movies or television will be the first. Read: Someone shoot Kyra Sedgewick yesterday, please!

 

I think Irish and Middle-Eastern are practically interchangeable. Slow down the Arab, and you have Irish.

 

Whatever accent Leonard DiCaprio is attempting in "Blood Diamond." I've seen the trailer a couple of times and haven't figured out if it's Australian, South African or, gulp, French. That's how brutal it is. And I'm not a Leo-Hater.

 

Angelina Jolie's accent in 'Alexander.' She sounded like she was from Pottsylvania.
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