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Post by Lance Uppercut on Dec 24, 2022 14:43:19 GMT -5
Not like race switching, or any social outrage. Just things you saw when you were younger that you either
1. Felt something off 2. Shocked to find out that they weren’t like the character they played.
Sure by now everyone knows Edris Elba, Hugh laurie, most of the avengers etc.
My experience is more like
Growing up in the 90s, Asian American in heavily Asian area, I thought there was something off about Tia Carrere from Wayne’s world and Jennie Kwan from California dreams, since they were supposed to Chinese, Cantonese speakers. Once I got older and looked them up on Wikipedia, I was like OH, THEYRE FILIPINA. THAT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. Especially Kwan. Aside from not even trying with a Hong Kong accent, I totally recognized that bubbly Pinoy American valley girl accent after hanging enough Filipino people my age
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Post by Mrs. Potato Dick on Dec 24, 2022 15:46:11 GMT -5
Short Circuit had a Jewish guy play whose surname was Jabituya. With full on offensive accent.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Dec 24, 2022 16:35:23 GMT -5
The American actor who played the German 'master of ceremonies' in "Cabaret" was also the Korean master of Shinanju in "Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins".
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Post by karl100589 on Dec 24, 2022 16:42:40 GMT -5
Bob Hoskins playing a New Yorker in Roger Rabbit and Super Mario. Say what you want about the Mario film his casting was perfect.
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Post by ace on Dec 24, 2022 16:45:27 GMT -5
I almost pooped my pants when I heard James Marsters speak with his regular non British accent.
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Push R Truth
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 24, 2022 16:46:56 GMT -5
I feel like I could say like a half dozen Sean Connery movies and still not get most of them.
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Dec 24, 2022 18:01:37 GMT -5
How many different European nationalities has Arnie played? He'a been Russian and Dutch off the top of my head, in addition to the numerous Americans with the thick Austrian accents.
I do think it's funny both of the German Grubers in Die Hard 1 and 3 were played by English actors.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Dec 24, 2022 18:02:38 GMT -5
Recent ones, but hearing Rose McIver's actual voice when I'm used to her American accent on Ghosts and iZombie....
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 24, 2022 18:26:40 GMT -5
Listening to Gary Oldman, Christian Bale, and Charlie Cox talking with their real "Awright guvnah, how's ya fava?" accents is always a trip.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 24, 2022 18:32:37 GMT -5
Swedish Dolph Lundgren playing Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in Rocky IV.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 24, 2022 18:38:37 GMT -5
"Japanese" "Mongolian" "Egyptian" and "Scottish" "English" and "Transylvanian"
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Post by Hurbster on Dec 24, 2022 19:06:43 GMT -5
We could have Keanu's Constantine as well.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Dec 24, 2022 19:21:25 GMT -5
We could have Keanu's Constantine as well. Was Constantine supposed to be english in that film?
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Dec 24, 2022 19:23:18 GMT -5
We'd be here all night if I got into some of the atrocities that have tried to pass as an Irish accent in pop media.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 24, 2022 19:51:10 GMT -5
We'd be here all night if I got into some of the atrocities that have tried to pass as an Irish accent in pop media. Or Michael Fassbender's frequent inability to fully suppress his Irish accent.
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Post by The Captain on Dec 24, 2022 20:03:34 GMT -5
Some fun Star Trek ones:
Canadian William Shatner played American James T Kirk.
Irish-Canadian James Doohan played Scottish Montgomery Scott.
I'd mention Walter Koenig but he was of Russian descent and his parents were Russian immigrants.
Amusingly despite both Sulu and George Takei being of Japanese-American background, Sulu's own heritage was originally just vaguely East Asian. Sulu isn't even a Japanese name (the "l" sound doesn't natively exist in the Japanese language) and comes from a sea and island group in the Philippines.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Dec 24, 2022 20:22:49 GMT -5
Probably the most jarring performance by Peter Sellers was in the original Ladykillers movie.. Because he pretty much played it straight and used a non outrageous accent.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 24, 2022 21:03:05 GMT -5
Amusingly despite both Sulu and George Takei being of Japanese-American background, Sulu's own heritage was originally just vaguely East Asian. Sulu isn't even a Japanese name (the "l" sound doesn't natively exist in the Japanese language) and comes from a sea and island group in the Philippines. The waters were muddied further in the Kelvin movies with Korean-American John Cho playing Sulu. A few more Trek ones: Patrick Stewart (English) as Picard (French). LeVar Burton (American) as La Forge (Somali). Rosalind Chao (Chinese-American) as Keiko O'Brien (Japanese). Nichelle Nichols, Celia Rose Gooding, and Zoë Saldana (all American) as Uhura (Kenyan). Karl Urban (New Zealander) as Leonard McCoy (American). Simon Pegg (English) as Montgomery Scott (Scottish). Chris Hemsworth (Australian) as George Kirk (American). Ricardo Montalbán (Mexican) and Benedict Cumberbatch (English) as Khan (Indian). Alice Eve (English) as Carol Marcus (American). Jess Bush (Australian) as Christine Chapel (American). Babs Olusanmokun (Nigerian) as Joeseph M'Benga (Kenyan).
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Johnny B. Decent
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Dec 24, 2022 21:21:37 GMT -5
Pretty much every role Yul Brynner had?
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Post by The Captain on Dec 24, 2022 21:22:22 GMT -5
The weird thing with Carol Marcus in the Kelvinverse is that she is actually British instead of American and speaks with a British accent. There was a deleted scene explaining that she was raised in London because her father was stationed at the Starfleet office there.
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