Hugh Grant, Native New Yorker?

Mickey Blue Eyes is a 1999 film directed by Kelly Makin. Hugh Grant stars as Michael Felgate, an English auctioneer living in New York City who becomes entangled in his soon-to-be father in-law’s mafia connections.

Below is a scene from the movie where James Caan tries to teach extremely English Hugh Grant how to talk like a native New Yorker in order to fool some gangsters on the journey to meet them.