The BBC notes that the accent did not go down well, downunder: “Writing on news.com.au, Owen Vaughan said the impression was “worse than James Coburn’s half-Cockney, half-American attempt in The Great Escape” and “worse than Meryl Streep’s “Ah Ding-gow ay-t my baibee” in the film Evil Angels (released under the name A Cry in the Dark in Europe and the US). “It’s so bad it could cause a diplomatic row,” he wrote.”
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