Toxic comments. He had 6 hours to learn something people spend months to alter. Chill out.

One thing she got totally wrong is the voiced 'th' sound. You'd only replace it with a 'v' in the middle or end of words, like "bother", "mother", "with" etc. When it's at the start like with "that", "there", and "then" a strong cockney accent would see it pronounced as a 'd'

I think he did reasonably well in the final readthrough with the coach, and then the "audition" portion he reverted to a lot of the old vocal habits....

A lot of people struggle with Cockney, but us that have the accent are blessed!

this woman is amazing, props to her

I really want to see a version of this for an Australian accent, because I swear to god I’ve never seen an American pull it off

Props for the Editor… all the angles and different cuts.

he looks like Ray Gillete from Archer

With the cockney accent, I swear he could pass for an Essex boy

Best Cockney coverage I've seen in a short video - coach knows what she's talking about and the guy did pretty well considering the time constraint (though I'm not sure about the A+...)

Life this series! He did better than I could in 6 hours! They should do a series where they do one month or a couple weeks and see the different.

That's a lot of progress in six hours. Gives you ope.

“Standard British” only spoken by less than 1% of the entire country. Also they were both shockingly bad.

This is really fantastic. SAVED for my annual RenFest prep.

lol "sounds like an eastern european with a good english accent". so true.

Can't really speak to the accuracy much as there's not a lot of cockneys in California but this video was actually pretty good for getting the basic sound transformations. I was able to to do the accent in a d&d npc well enough to not get beer cans thrown at me by other Americans. For me that's good enough

I love Marty and this series. Yay

His accent was a bit off at the end😅

With only 6 hours a better approach would be to go light on the theory and just tell the guy what the lines should sound like. It's not like he's being asked for a coversation; he just needs to recite the fixed script. BTW Erik Singer's accent series on Wired is so much more entertaining and informative.

Me clicking on this video: how far do I have to go before someone mentions Dick Van Dyke...

This comes in handy! I’m playing Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol so I’m using this to practice.

Page Clements teaches at T. Schreiber studio in Manhattan and she is spectacular. Frfr

Can we get videos of his progress from when he auditioned

This woman is a qualified accent coach.

the way once i learned a french accent in the 10 min cold read time i had before an audition

Not at all surprised Marget Martindale is a master dialect coach.

With this series, I really feel like the accent coach should be talking in the goal accent the entire time. It would allow the student to be more comfortable trying it out and give them a constant target. Generally speaking, I can tell Vanity Fair is trying to capitalize on the popularity of Wired's series with Erik Singer with this series and the Amy Walker video. It doesn't match up. The people just aren't as knowledgeable, and it's a cheap way to steal views.

Anyone who's learnt French knows how really, really hard it is, both to learn and unlearn.

Much betta! Baga Chips would be proud!

Lived in yorkshire all my life, never picked up the stereotypical "broad yorkshire" accent - some would say it's a blessing to have it, some would say it's a blessing to avoid it, it's the same as the cockney accent, it's all preference. Personally I think it sounds ugly most of the time, and I'd feel blessed if I avoided having it. This language coach is amazing at helping people learn it though! Props to her!

I feel like it would be easier for us Australians to learn this than americans because i noticed we already say some words in the cockney accent

I skipped to 15:00 and thought this was a parody. That sounded tragic

Nailed it!

I try to emulate Michael Caine. Low tone and fast speaking. I wouldn’t pass for it in London, of course.

I think anyone would have a tough time speaking that accent for the first time

Maybe I can get some pointers, imagine the taunting in school when you speak RP in East London...

He sounds like Frank Spencer! 😂

Wow her speaking voice is so nice. No wonder I guess

Because is pronounced ‘BE CUZ’ (like cousin) not ‘BE CORRS’ 😬 Though he did a really decent job for the time had.

HAHAHAHAHA love the moment: "Am I... cockney?"😌

lockstock and snatch. good references in my opinion :)

"I can, honestly, barley understand what their saying." I understood it perfectly...xD

Great coach👍 But this is painful to listen too. He genuinely keeps saying footfall, instead of foughtfall. Americans do tend to turn the accent into more of a caricature, by leaning too much into those otherwise subtle quirks of the cockney accent.

I mean...it's a start.

Question for native Cockney speakers, did the two cockney speakers in the end both day that the usual way is to say “better” is to pronounce the /t/ rather than using a glottal stop?? I got confused.

Although terrible cockney accent, even if he was spot on he still would have not gotten the part. Bob a married man with children, would not have the mannerisms and voice of Marty. Good actor, but the role would not have suited him.

I am Latina and my English sound cockney. I am in the wrong country. London is my goal now.

I didnt mean to come across as Simon Cowell 🤣🤣🤣

So this is what it looks like to be optimistic in the face of reality.......?🤔

Everything I know about cockney accents comes from Mighty Boosh characters, Guy Richie movies and uk music stars/celebrities. Yes or no? Seems to me alot of people in the UK can't even fake the accents. Seems odd.

I think the accent coach was teaching him something like Estuary English rather than Cockney. A Cockney wouldn't pronounce "round" like that - they'd say "raand the aases" for "round the houses" and "I'm in the bahthroom - I've bin wai'in a good ahf aa-a fo the paa-a shaa-a naa" for "I'm in the bathroom - I've been waiting a good half hour for the power shower now". I've come to the conclusion that it's best to get Cockneys to play Cockneys. It's the hardest accent to imitate convincingly. I live in London and know loads of people who speak like that yet I can imitate other accents so much more convincingly than I can imitate Cockney! Anytime I hear an accent on TV or in the cinema that hasn't quite worked, it's always that one. My favourite is in the TV series "The Boys" where Billy Butcher and his entire family all have hilarious Cockney-gone-wrong accents! Mind you the fellow here literally just had six hours and probably did a darn site better job than some people who've been learning for a lot longer than that!

"Because" is pronounced as "biccuz" in English accents, potentially a bit closer to "biccaz" in strong Cockney, but certainly not how she taught it.

Idris Elba will be a great coach

Who would av realised afta watchin this clip that the American accent derived from English - Mind you, I'm British and I'm totally useless at mimicking regional accents. I can just abou't do a London (Cockney) as it's lazy... if you think (fink) Cockney is bad, try the Geordie (South-East) or Brummie (Birmingham/Midlands). The 'problem' is, is that regional accents can and do change all over our fantastic small island - i.e. My grandchildren were born and are being raised 45 miles away from where I live and we still *sound* different.

Nah! He sounds more like a Brummy than a Cockney.

Wanna learn cockney, just become Del Boy.

thoughtful begins with an F

He sounds more Essex than Cockney

Where's Eric

Americans doing a cockney sound like really drunk Australians 😭

Wow!

No cockney has ever sounded like that

This video is the BEST among the other cockney videos ever

as estonian, i was taught british cockney english. i speak english as half american, half british hahah

cool.

Lol, I love this

Sorry but 13:47 I don't know what she's doing here lol

Yeah I can't really understand what they're saying......lol as a cockney/estuary speaker I get that a lot. Mike Reid, the actor comedian is the best example of a proper cockney accent in my opinion.

For the record 7:38 because.....a cockney would ACC just say "coz" loool

Rawvah briwyan', dis! 👍

That was pretty decent for 6 hours... says an American. I'd love to see what Marty can accomplish accent-wise if he spends thirty days on an accent instead of cramming on the day of the audition!

How do you say “thoughtful “ ?

Still better than green street. Edit: Actually no I regret saying that, he sounds a right plum

Final Mark - C+ Can't believe the coach missed so many obvious cockups :)

nice

Everyone's a critic. I would suggest he got much deeper down in the chest below the diaphragm, (all the way down). Really go for more glottal stopping on that schwa, like, "UH" "UG", get those knuckles dragging on the floor, and throw in a nice aggressive "Oi, wot'you looking aht?". Check out Papa English. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/aYenfa2ig26grZc.html

That woman is taw-ally briw-yunt! 👏👏👏

I wonder if it's morally wrong to hire an accent coach to learn a Cockney and RP accent, mainly as a lifestyle change than for an acting gig... And then have them help you maitain it throughout your life.

Mate she described cockney and didn't include Jason Statham in the vid.. wtf..

Should have shown him green street

Definitely picked this one up quicker than the Boston accent.

He never played the game "the getaway" and it shows

Watch "The Sweeney"

i do actually think a Cockney accent isn't unlike standard American.

Somehow ... sum owl , Something ... Sumink, Thoughtful ... Fortfool, Threaten ... Fret ern, Governer ... Guv na, Watch it Wo chit, Nothing ... Nufink, Hav'nt ... Aint,

Why would you wanna learn the cockney accent when you can just learn a new accent

God, the accent was terrible

He looks cute.

Now if only I could completely mute him and only listen to the coach... He's so dainty he ends up just sounding like Frodo.

🤣🤣🤣😂🤣😂

ive lived in london all my life and honestly even the coach was awful. lmao.

Don't want this to sound homophobic, but he just needs to change the tone of his voice a bit more. There's too much chipiness and high notes the way he talks. Sure he's a great guy, but actingwise, you've gotta make your voice sound a bit more masculine.

Cockney is the best accent in England!

*Gets into costume to make a more believable working class, poverty-stricken family man... ...wears golden earrings and his flat-cap tilted back to showcase a fashionable groomed hairstyle*

She sounds like Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle. 🤢

Cringe so HARD when Variety do these English culture videos.

I’m “an actor” lol

Awfur ! Awfur ! Sholom !

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The video is only 17 minutes. We're missing something here.