Charlie Hunnam has addressed his bizarre 'half English, half American' accent

Everyone has an accent when they speak and some are definitely stronger than others.

But actors often change their accents, manipulating their voices to suit whatever role they're playing and leaving fans in shock when they hear their 'real' voice.

For example, Charlie Hunnam was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, but many people probably wouldn't be able to tell.

The actor is known for his role of Jax Teller in drama series Sons of Anarchy, where he speaks in an American accent and in gangster film The Gentlemen, he takes on a 'posh' southern accent.

And it's left him with a strange hodgepodge accent that sounds like it belongs in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

In an interview with Vanity Fair, the actor admitted that the situation with his accent had become a little bit 'embarrassing.'

He said: "It's so embarrassing to say as an Englishman, but I'd been working in America for so long, that when I got King Arthur, I had to hire a dialect coach to help me sound English again, which was sort of an absurd situation to find myself in."

Hunnam had to change his accent again for series Shantaram, where he played an Australian fugitive named Lin Ford who lives in 1980s Bombay.

Charlie Hunnam has opened up about his hodgepodge accent. (Vanity Fair)

Addressing another change in accent, Hunnam told 7 News Australia: "I had a wonderful dialect coach and a lot of Australian friends who helped me, but honestly I think I probably got about 75 percent of the way there.

"I have a strange accent myself, it’s half English, half American, and everybody, my entire life, has thought I was Australian.

"I have a lot of family in Melbourne – I came to Melbourne the first time when I was two years old and spent six weeks there, so I’ve been coming to Australia all my life."

But, the actor hasn't forgotten his roots and can still whip out the infamous Geordie accent on demand.

During an interview with LADbible, the 44-year-old was sharing how he ran into some 'hooligans' back home when he seamlessly slipped back into his hometown accent.

The actor admits that his half English, half American accent can be 'embarrassing'. (FX)

Sitting alongside The Gentlemen director Guy Ritchie, Hunnam remembered the experience with the 'rapscallions' while he was once walking through Newcastle.

"I did come across some young rapscallions up in Newcastle a while ago," he explained.

"And they came up to me about three o’clock in the morning - I’d been playing poker and I was walking home - and they come up to me."

The actor then slips in and out of a clear Geordie accent as he says: ''How man are you that film star?'

"And I said, 'Yeah I am,' and he said, 'I f**kin knew it. Gandalf the wizard ya f**kin beardy bast**d.' Then they all walk past me, 'd**khead' one-by-one."