![Dominic West, an Englishman playing an American, doing a terrible English accent as an American. Can't be easy, a testament to his great acting skills, by simply being terrible ! : r/TheWire Dominic West, an Englishman playing an American, doing a terrible English accent as an American. Can't be easy, a testament to his great acting skills, by simply being terrible ! : r/TheWire](https://external-preview.redd.it/0BRmxZ_o-KQHldwryIBwGNRzt8JwJtOE6e0TXOHUemA.jpg?format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe7c9660fa701cbfb947a33b070ae562d869a1df)
Dominic West, an Englishman playing an American, doing a terrible English accent as an American. Can't be easy, a testament to his great acting skills, by simply being terrible ! : r/TheWire
![TIL that Dominic West, the actor who plays Jimmy McNulty on The Wire, is English. He was praised for the accuracy of his accent. : r/todayilearned TIL that Dominic West, the actor who plays Jimmy McNulty on The Wire, is English. He was praised for the accuracy of his accent. : r/todayilearned](https://external-preview.redd.it/nJCyp0WwjTcHpfktvtpmVZa1SnM1LxTdBgj8Pn3a4nY.jpg?auto=webp&s=cffe24371f3c837235a5352e4847273514c6b0af)
TIL that Dominic West, the actor who plays Jimmy McNulty on The Wire, is English. He was praised for the accuracy of his accent. : r/todayilearned
![McNulty...got better at disguising his Irish accent as the series went on, but never embodied that Baltimore twang. | The wire hbo, Hbo, Best tv McNulty...got better at disguising his Irish accent as the series went on, but never embodied that Baltimore twang. | The wire hbo, Hbo, Best tv](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/75/18/d7/7518d7b1362b1c6ff0c6c881e4be99c7.jpg)
McNulty...got better at disguising his Irish accent as the series went on, but never embodied that Baltimore twang. | The wire hbo, Hbo, Best tv
![Dominic West: After The Wire and The Hour, time for another world | The Independent | The Independent Dominic West: After The Wire and The Hour, time for another world | The Independent | The Independent](https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2011/10/31/15/domwest.jpg?width=1200)
Dominic West: After The Wire and The Hour, time for another world | The Independent | The Independent
![The Good, the Bad, and the Overly Proper: Dialect Coaches Rank the American Accents of TV's Foreign Actors The Good, the Bad, and the Overly Proper: Dialect Coaches Rank the American Accents of TV's Foreign Actors](https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/0f1/05a/5ed4de87e634eee0de9a301d6769b7489a-05-voice-acting.2x.h473.w710.jpg)
The Good, the Bad, and the Overly Proper: Dialect Coaches Rank the American Accents of TV's Foreign Actors
![For the American viewers: Does Dominic West and Idris Elba hide their real accents well? : r/TheWire For the American viewers: Does Dominic West and Idris Elba hide their real accents well? : r/TheWire](https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_2reco/styles/communityIcon_86qojgcig3691.png)