Actors who were never the same after a role

Arnold Schwarzenegger is a curious man because, despite living and working in America and even running a small part of it for a few years, he still speaks with the same thick Austrian accent that endeared him to us when he was punching out the Predator in the '80s. This particular quirk of the Governator's life has mystified and perplexed fans for years because surely by now Schwarzenegger has been in America long enough to lose his accent.

Well apparently he has. In an interview with The Daily Mail following the release of Terminator Genisys the T-800 revealed that he's perfectly capable of speaking English sans his accent but doesn't because fans expect him to speak like he does in all his movies. This makes sense as in his own autobiography, Schwarzenegger notes that he had hours of personal lessons with acclaimed dialect coach, Robert Easton shortly after coming to America to learn how to enunciate more clearly.

It would appear then that Schwarzenegger's accent is a charade he maintains for fans and that he could speak without it if he really wanted to, but doesn't because his voice has become as much a part of his image as his physique. It's hard to even be mad at Schwarzenegger for this apparent deception because let's face it, if any one of us had an excuse to talk with an accent makes everything he says sound like a kick-ass one-liner from an action movie, we'd take it.