How Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels Led To Brad Pitt’s Snatch Role

There have been plenty of dodgy British accents by American actors down the years, from Dick van Dyke’s Cockney chimney sweep in “Mary Poppins” to Robert Downey Jr’s bizarre take on Welsh in “Dolittle.” Brad Pitt chipped in with his attempt at a Norn Iron accent in “The Devil’s Own,” which the Belfast Telegraph ranked among the worst Irish accents in film history.

We all know Pitt loves an accent — that was the same year he also hinted at Austrian in “Seven Years in Tibet,” convincing absolutely nobody.Pitt fared better a few years later in Guy Ritchie’s “Snatch,” where…The post How Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels Led To Brad Pitt’s Snatch Role appeared first on /Film.

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