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** The [[Robin Hood (2010 film)|latest version]] is no exception while most of the actors [[Your Mileage May Vary|try]]. [[Great Big Sea|Allan Doyle]] never sounds like anything other than a [[Canadian Accents|Newfie]].
** In ''[[Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves]]'', Mike McShane did apparently make a significant effort to pick up an authentic Nottinghamshire accent, but was told to play an Irish-accented priest instead. Kevin Costner doesn't even try for an English accent. His Robin Hood is ''all'' Midwestern U.S.
*** Well, to his credit, he apparently ''tried''... but after a day or two it was decided that the accent was just not working (read, too terrible), and that it would simply be less jarring/ridiculous to the viewer to have Costner not use the accent at all.
** In ''[[The Adventures of Robin Hood (film)|The Adventures of Robin Hood]]'', Friar Tuck is played by Eugene Pallette, whose American accent is somehow less jarring than most of these characters tend to be.
** In Disney's 1973 [[Talking Animal]] version of ''[[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]]'', some of the characters are played by British actors, while others are played by American actors with strong Southern accents such as Pat Buttram and George Lindsay.
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