This amazes me to no end!!

This literally does amaze me to no end. Watch any movie where an English actor or actress is required to speak with an American accent or other accent. For example: Gary Oldman in The Professional, Alan Rickman in Die Hard, Michael Caine in Secondhand Lions and you'll know what I mean.

 

And it seems only very few American or foreign actors and actresses can successfully pull off an authentic English accent. Johnny Depp is one. For his role in Sweeney Todd, his English accent was so authentic you would have thought he was from England. Well, it certainly is in his favor he's friends with people like Keith Richards, who he can learn how to speak from. That's certainly who he modelled his character Jack Sparrow from the Pirates of the Caribbean series.