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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Specifically, Pacino's "Cuban" accent was so bad that actual Cuban cast members were trained to mimic it just to help it be less glaring. Additionally, Pitt's "pikey" was so nonsensical, the other actors couldn't even begin to approximate it and the disconnect is visible onscreen in their reaction time to his lines.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

and the disconnect is visible onscreen in their reaction time to his lines.

I thought that was intentional, like part of his character, that he speaks nonsensically.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nope. Pitt "panicked" and leaned into nonsensical rather than accuracy (likely due to his shite accent in The Devil's Own).

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

But it was part of the character. The other characters react to him with dialogue. He just couldn't do *Cockney, so they improvised.