I’m Puerto Rican and I understood the difference. I kept repeating it aloud as if they could hear me.😅😂

I don't think people realize, like in America, there are a lot of different accents in the UK.

@@user-mb9rh2iz5l grew up in london moved to america as a teen, you are right none of them are doing it! I still say bottle this way, and confuse the hell out of everyone around me when asking for one. That noise doesnt come from the side of your mouth thats for sure.

The 'TL' sound she mentions is an older Received Pronunciation form, and nobody in this interview was the right combination of old, posh, and English to do it! If you want a hilarously over the top example over the sound, look up the 'Light Metal' sketch with Stephen Fry.

@@user-mb9rh2iz5l see, you misunderstood what she was trying to say. She actually specifically said that she’s not talking about a glottal stop.

I was about to say that. Spot on. XD🤍

I didn't know who Olivia was, she is real fun.

@@vicsar Olivia Coleman is a national treasure and I'm not even British.

@@iambiggus 😁

It's even more spot on at 0:16

That's very easy for you to say.

You took the words right out of my mouth.

That was a very clear explanation in latin. Can you explain it for us in english, please?

psssht yeah totally we know understand :)

Could you provide an example with the final “n”? 😊

people who learned to play roles (that means they learned to narrate and to speak, in general) and also travel all the time and meet literally hundreds of people every year, of course have more funny stories than ordinary people.

Somewhere on youtube are clips of Jennifer Lawrence and Emma Stone side by side, chatting.

Isn't it more the case that if an actor can't do a pretty wide range of accents they arn't gong to get hired for anything? Maybe it's just a UK thing but if you're a scouser and can only do scouse you're screwed.

@@BadgerUKvideo it's just a UK thing, Americans don't need to be able to do accents to get hired in Hollywood. Accents open some doors though

You mean most muricans can't.

​@@SidV101 That said, even in America, if you do happen to have a strong regional accent, you either have to lean into it & make it part of "your brand" or find a way to smooth it out into a more neutral American accent to get cast in the bigger roles. Reese Witherspoon, for example, is from the deep South but, she had to know how to get rid of her Southern accent in order to get cast in any of her breakout movies (Election, Legally Blonde, etc). On the other hand, Matthew McConaughey found success by leaning into his Texas persona but, it does still limit him to certain roles/movies. And as you indicated, in terms of prestige... Hollywood does very much reward actors that can do an accent for a role (case in point: Robert De Niro's current nominations for "Killers of the Flower Moon"). But, I think one thing that does make a difference for accent requirements in the US vs UK is that regional accents in the US aren't quite as cleanly delineated as they are in the UK. It is perfectly normal for someone to live in Tennessee but, not have a particularly strong Southern accent (sometimes it's only certain words/phrases that give them away). Or for someone to be from New York, but have an accent that is not that hugely different from someone born in Chicago. So, most of the time, an actor from New England can easily play a dude from California without worrying too much about putting on an accent (unless their particular accent just happens to be very strong). However, in the UK, I think most people can pretty accurately pinpoint what region you're from just by your accent. So, an actor from London always knows that he is gonna have to put on an accent if a project is set in Yorkshire or Liverpool. Meanwhile, in America, doing an accent just isn't expected/required for most projects.

@@john.premose LOL, most European actors do terrible American accents. I get that you just want to bash Americans, but the facts exist.

Disgusting

She seems like she doesn't need to take herself too seriously. Very refreshing.

And Anna Kendrick.

Very true.

Do you mean Jude Law? He’s English

And they’re besties with each other

No, I think they mean Jennifer Lawrence@@lindawitt9063

Source?

​@@mrtoothlessThey made it up.

Literally everyone says bottle, it's generally people from the east end of London or parts of Essex that don't say it like bottle. There are stereotypes about British people and they way we speak, we have dozens of regional accents, and the UK consists of 4 countries. We are a diverse population.

@@tifu3274 Preach!

I read this to the voice of the BBC America advert at the end LMAO!

You mean like a "boddle" of "wadder"😊?

As an English actor who studied in America, can confirm the double t which is d thing.

As an American who has lived in America since birth, so can I.

Prescriptivist nonsense and you don't even really know what you're talking about. Some accents in the UK pronouncing certain Ts as a glottal stop [ʔ] and basically all English-speaking Americans and Canadians pronounce those same instances of T as an alveolar tap [ɾ].

Americans and Canadians often use a flap (tap) for "t" intervocalically. It sounds more like a "d" because it's voiced and unaspirated. North American English speakers also use unreleased and unaspirated true "t" for final "t" sounds, but they're often mistakenly called "dropped" because they're unreleased. In actuality, it's not a true deletion.

I would also be looking for that opportunity if I could do that

I always notice that in British accents, same thing with the word "mental"

I involuntarily do it when I say "sleep". The sides of the tongue just makes a little click, like a "cl" sound.

So do I and I speak Queen's English, as it was known in my day - as usual, the insufferable Claudia Winkleman is talking out of her arse!

There is no such thing as a British accent.

She was quite specific that's not what she meant. She was playing royalty, not modern east London

@@kurtsudheim825that isn’t just modern east London 😂 ignoring the t’s is a common (common in both senses here) thing across most working class regions in England, with different accents of course

When she did Easy A I knew she was a star then.

There are over 300! I don't where you got 40 from!

"Northern Irish" accents ain't British. (I typed that in a British accent.)

America has more than 8200 different accents and yet Brit actors always do the same one in films.

​@@Macca-rb5ok true. Northern Ireland is part of the UK but not part of Britain. But TBF, even British people get this distinction wrong.

​@@unexplainedaf7469blame the American vocal coaches that they are given to work with. I think there is a standard accent that coaches working in Hollywood tend to teach British actors. It's rare that a coach will teach them something more specific and localised, and British actors find it hard anyway because they are so used to either LA or NYC accents.

Not a full glottal stop, she specified that.. the glottal stop would have no "t" sound at all. It's more about the fusing of "t" and "l" I think, where the "t" becomes a bit of a "d", but less so than in the US "bahddle"

Thank you - Just have gone down a glottal stop hole. TIL

Nope. Glottal stops aren't strange to Americans at all. This is something else.

One thing I find so interesting about the glottal stop is that all English speakers (or at least most of them) have it, but every accent uses it on different words. eg some Brits say "li'l" while Americans say "liddle" for little, and Americans say "moun'n" while Brits say "mountain"

It's the opposite of a glottal stop. The sound she means is old posh RP, the glottal stop is working-glass London. The glottal stop happens down the throat, this one is a click on the side of the mouth.

Nailed it, how did you find that out?

@@Silentnemesis2710 I just had that feeling that I’ve heard it before so I went looking haha

Katherine

Frances McDormand has four! Although I think one is for producing.

​@@nazarkgb1one for producing. I think it's very unlikely Frances will win a fourth best actress Oscar.

@@sarahc2203 Katharine (sorry, couldn't resist it!)

@@stewmott3763 sure is! Can’t believe I’ve not noticed that before.

It's exactly the same pronunciation. The central Mexican accent is very 'clipped' and pronounces all the consonants very clearly, unlike most other Spanish accents around the world, which focus on the vowels. People in other countries (including Spain) struggle with the TL sound, which is why they often say "chipocle" instead of with the T sound!

So now Brits are stealing obscure phonemes from indigenous Mexican languages and substituting them for their anglo-saxon sounds?? Will the colonization never end!?

me too 😭

People in Essex sound the same as Cockneys who sound the same as people from Stevenage and Hatfield, in my experience. Geordies sound similar to Scots. In Devon and Cornwall people sound like Bristolians.

@@facthunt2facthunt245 Wrong people in Essex do not sound the same people in Harwich have a different accent from those who live in Colchester who come from everywhere. And there havn't been any cockney's in decades. Cockney's had to be born within earshot of the Bow Bells (a East End Church) I am a geordie and I sound nothing like a Scot🤣 Geordies are descendents of the Danes (Vikings) as Northumberland was the heart of Daneland.

It's the ginger hair, isn't it?

@@facthunt2facthunt245and she’s a natural blonde 😅

They both make sense. If you are British you have a British accent. There's about a dozen British accents but you'll have one of them. If you are American you have an American accent. There's several different American accents.

@@facthunt2facthunt245 There are hundreds of "British" accents. For a start, it's 4 different countries. As for the 'Merkins, who cares? None of them say anything that matters and they are all speaking a foreign language.

@@truthteller99999stay mad champ

That's not what she meant. The others demonstrated the glottal stop, and she said that wasn't it.

It's her huge eyes.

As in is it a bit like the LL in Welsh?

It's the opposite of Cockney, Olivia is doing the older RP version. Listen to any posh old person from the 70s or earlier and that's how they pronounce it.

Yup!

Wait why is it weird?

@@liliablabla I think they mean it would be a huge coincidence if they weren't both promoting the same movie.

@@Mortified_Penguin ....Yeah. My point. Thanks. Kinda late, but happy new year.

I'm just surprised they've kept their clothes on.

wait… care to elaborate?

She's from Arizona. One of the least British places of Earth, I guess.

It's British

Much like we would be perfectly happy describing her accent as "American"?

@@mattyouds5843 No not like that because Britain has four separate countries within it (England, Wales, Northern Ireland, and Scotland) with four distinct national accents (and a variety of regional accents within the countries too). America has regional accents sure but the United States is in fact one country so it would be apt to describe her accent as American. If you re-read my original comment you should be able to grasp what I am getting at.

@@avantgardener7493 I know what you mean but I think we have a tendency to hold Americans to standards that we don't hold ourselves to. Yes England is a country but it isn't a sovereign state any more than New York is. I think it's reasonable for people from other countries to view the UK as a single country since that's effectively what it is (single national government, single head of state, currency, no hard borders - sort of, even a single entry at Eurovision). We call the individual parts of the union "countries" but they're not really that different to the individual states in the US or Australia.

@@mattyouds5843 I get what you mean and in the end it's obviously not a huge issue. It was more an interesting quirk that I had noticed amongst Americans, who imo have a particular way of thinking of themselves in relation to other countries. For the record I'm Australian and people here would say English accent, not British accent for the most part.

Sure your accent is the pretty one

It sounds like American viewers are treated like children in their own country.