50 Huge Movie Characters That Were Completely Miscast

Actors are constantly having to put on different accents for different roles, and while some are better at this than others, there are some accents that are more difficult to do than others. It feels as though an English actor who can pull off a convincing American accent is far more common than an American who can sound genuinely English.

This may be down to the fact that there are thousands of different, nuanced ways of speaking in Britain, but even going for the classic Cockney accent can prove difficult, as it did with Don Cheadle in Ocean's Eleven.

Playing munitions expert Basher, Cheadle gave one of the worst attempts at a Cockney accent in cinematic history. Yes, it really is that bad, to the point that there have been fan theories trying to explain it away as a fake accent. In reality however, it was Cheadle insisting on speaking like that.

It's incredible that there didn't come a point on set where either director Steven Soderbergh, or Cheadle himself didn't just admit that the whole thing wasn't working. He sounds so bad it is impossible to take anything the character does seriously, or look at anything past the criminally bad accent. Either cast an Englishman, or make Basher American, simple as that.