10 Actors Who Prepared Totally WRONG For A Role

In 1997's rom-com The Beautician and the Beast, actress Fran Drescher - and current President of the Screen Actors Guild, don't you forget - portrayed Joy Miller, a New Yorker beautician who is mistaken for a science teacher by an Eastern European dictator (Timothy Dalton).

In an attempt to more persuasively sell that barmy conceit, Drescher decided to ditch her signature nasal accent, even going to the bother of taking vocal lessons to subdue her natural nasal quality and sound less "grating."

But when Drescher made it to set sporting a new vocal tenor, the producers were taken aback, and insisted that she toss all that voice training out with the bathwater.

As it turns out, the filmmakers cast Drescher precisely because of her distinctive accent, as they felt it would further enhance the culture clash element of the silly story.

All the same, Drescher received a Razzie nomination for Worst Actress for her work on the film, and reviews commonly cited her voice as annoying and offputting. Oops.