10 Worst Ever Accent Fails In Film

Known as the worst film ever made, The Room has become a cult of its own, and Tommy Wiseau has been shrewd enough to cash in from its comic unpopularity. He does tours and annual Q&A sessions with crowds of people who now quote the lines.

Ranking high on the long-list of faults with this film was Wiseau’s American accent. His American accent, you say? But surely Tommy Wiseau is American? Yes he is, which is precisely what makes this so ludicrous.

In fact Wiseau has been very secretive and contradictory about his past. At times he claims to have been raised in France and at others in various parts of America. He has even gone so far as to claim he was born in either 1968 or 1969. Another theory was that he emigrated from a former Soviet Union territory, where he was born over a decade prior to his given birth date.

The accent is so wonderfully wooden that it sounds almost like an old Hungarian fisherman man trying to speak English in some scenes, and Sacha Baron Cohen as Bruno in others. You may not have a frame of reference for that first one, but if you watch the clip, you will.