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Denzel Washington roasted over 'hilariously bad' British accent in viral clip: 'It's giving Dick Van Dyke!'
Denzel Washington is getting ruthlessly roasted online after a resurfaced clip exposed his painfully bad British accent in the 1988 film For Queen and Country.
In the crime drama, the now 70-year-old Oscar winner, who recently made a shock confession about his acting career, plays a decorated paratrooper discharged from the British military who returns to his old neighborhood in inner-city London. The viral clip shows Washington’s character being told he 'no longer has citizen to UK colonies,' prompting a dramatic response in what many are calling one of the worst attempts at a British accent ever captured on film. Even Denzel himself wasn’t safe from the ridicule — from himself: In a 2024 interview promoting Gladiator II, where he plays a Roman emperor with an American accent, the actor was reminded of his For Queen and Country performance by a British journalist
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