--- title: 2019 Golden Globes: Everyone Forgot Christian Bale Is British description: Christian Bale shocked viewers all over at the 76th annual Golden Globes with his real life British accent canonical: https://time.com/5495223/golden-globes-christian-bale-british-accent/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-01-07T03:29:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:43.206Z og:title: Everyone Forgot Christian Bale Is Welsh Until the 2019 Golden Globes og:description: Christian Bale shocked viewers all over at the 76th annual Golden Globes with his real life British accent og:url: https://time.com/5495223/golden-globes-christian-bale-british-accent/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt796607ade640a559/698942bd656a3f7268bd65fb/golden-globes-2019-christian-bale-vice.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Show og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Everyone Forgot Christian Bale Is Welsh Until the 2019 Golden Globes twitter:description: Christian Bale shocked viewers all over at the 76th annual Golden Globes with his real life British accent twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt796607ade640a559/698942bd656a3f7268bd65fb/golden-globes-2019-christian-bale-vice.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Christian Bale's British Accent Shocked Everyone at the 2019 Golden Globes by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jan 7, 2019 3:29 AM CUT  Christian Bale from “Vice” accepts the Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy award onstage during the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Christian Bale from “Vice” accepts the Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy award onstage during the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards.NBCUniversal/Getty Images by [Mahita Gajanan](/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Jan 7, 2019 3:29 AM CUT Christian Bale, who is well known for playing a number of iconic American characters, shocked viewers all over at the 76th annual [Golden Globes](http://time.com/5495089/golden-globes-best-jokes-2019/ "undefined") when he delivered a speech in his real-life British accent. The Welsh-born Bale accepted the Best Actor award at the Golden Globes for his role as Dick Cheney in Adam McKay’s _Vice_. In an acceptance speech that involved [thanking Satan](http://time.com/5495266/christian-bale-satan-dick-cheney/ "undefined") for giving him inspiration for his character, people were most surprised at Bale’s real accent. > [](https://twitter.com/annetdonahue/status/1082105466711269376) > [](https://twitter.com/annehelen/status/1082106348240695296) > [](https://twitter.com/MikeDrucker/status/1082106077775319041) The shock quickly turned to disbelief at how Bale sounds like many famous British characters notable for their accents. > [](https://twitter.com/carolineframke/status/1082106297057726469) > [](https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/1082105583115952128) > [](https://twitter.com/sadydoyle/status/1082105831271919617) > [](https://twitter.com/curlycomedy/status/1082107952234983431) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5495223/golden-globes-christian-bale-british-accent/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5495223/golden-globes-christian-bale-british-accent/"},"headline":"Christian Bale's British Accent Shocked Everyone at the 2019 Golden Globes","datePublished":"2019-01-07T03:29:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:43.206Z","description":"Christian Bale shocked viewers all over at the 76th annual Golden Globes with his real life British accent","url":"https://time.com/5495223/golden-globes-christian-bale-british-accent/","keywords":["Newsfeed","awards"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt796607ade640a559/698942bd656a3f7268bd65fb/golden-globes-2019-christian-bale-vice.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt796607ade640a559/698942bd656a3f7268bd65fb/golden-globes-2019-christian-bale-vice.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"76th Annual Golden Globe Awards - Show","caption":"Christian Bale from “Vice” accepts the Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy award onstage during the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards.","creditText":"NBCUniversal/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5495223/golden-globes-christian-bale-british-accent/","name":"Christian Bale's British Accent Shocked Everyone at the 2019 Golden Globes"}}]}] ```