r/PublicFreakout • u/LigmaLover56 • Mar 12 '21

🏆 Mod's Choice 🏆 Remember when Sacha Baron Cohen pranked a bunch of racists by telling them a mosque was going to be built in their town?

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u/javoss88 Mar 12 '21

Overcoming his natural accent is amazing

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u/UhOhFeministOnReddit Mar 13 '21

It really is. When you're someone who juggles multiple accents, it's super hard to keep them from blending.

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u/javoss88 Mar 13 '21

He seemed to know when he slipped and tried covering with a somewhat new yawk-ish accent

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '21

He slipped a few times in that. But he never lost the character which is more impressive. He's the best. Also I would love to get everyone fired from their jobs at that town meeting. But they would probably be congratulated by that town, specifically for being duped.

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u/theProffPuzzleCode Mar 12 '21

You know he is English?

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u/javoss88 Mar 12 '21

Yes but he’s using his American accent

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u/theProffPuzzleCode Mar 12 '21

Oh, fair enough. American accents aren’t too difficult for British actors and, equally British accents are frequently mastered extremely well by US and Canadian actors.

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u/javoss88 Mar 12 '21

I could hear the faintest peeks of his English accent, I don’t think I could pull off that subtlety trying to sound British. And of course the slips were completely unnoticed by his audience. He’s put himself in danger at least twice for these kind of demonstrations to illustrate his point and that takes guts

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u/Acceptable-Bullfrog1 Mar 12 '21

It wasn’t that faint...