Heartbreaker
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Post by Heartbreaker on Dec 24, 2022 21:40:01 GMT -5
Many Brits (Mostly English) have played American comic book characters.
Spider-Man: Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland
Batman: Christian Bale, Robert Pattinson
Superman: Henry Cavill
Doctor Strange: Benedict Cumberbatch
Daredevil: Charlie Cox
Venom: Tom Hardy
Commissioner Gordon: Gary Oldman
Doctor Octopus: Alfred Molina
Then in Moon Knight, you have American Oscar Isaac playing an Englishman who is the alternate identity of an American.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2022 21:53:18 GMT -5
Recent ones, but hearing Rose McIver's actual voice when I'm used to her American accent on Ghosts and iZombie.... You're talking about when she was on Colbert a couple weeks ago aren't you? That tripped me out too. |
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Post by The Captain on Dec 24, 2022 22:31:47 GMT -5
Hearing Hugh Laurie's regular speaking voice really threw me off after his playing House for so long.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 24, 2022 22:55:39 GMT -5
For years the only things I ever watched with Pedro Pascal in were movies and shows in which he used a Latino accent. It wasn't until someone here pointed it out to me that I discovered his Mando accent is his real accent. Hearing Hugh Laurie's regular speaking voice really threw me off after his playing House for so long. As a Brit, it was the opposite experience for me. |
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Post by zero744 on Dec 24, 2022 23:15:27 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 I have no idea what this means? Sure by now everyone knows Edris Elba, Hugh laurie, most of the avengers etc. |
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Post by The Captain on Dec 24, 2022 23:18:54 GMT -5
Also a minor correction but Tia Carrere does have some Chinese ancestry.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 24, 2022 23:26:15 GMT -5
Many Brits (Mostly English) have played American comic book characters. Spider-Man: Andrew Garfield, Tom Holland Batman: Christian Bale, Robert Pattinson Superman: Henry Cavill Doctor Strange: Benedict Cumberbatch Daredevil: Charlie Cox Venom: Tom Hardy Commissioner Gordon: Gary Oldman Doctor Octopus: Alfred Molina Then in Moon Knight, you have American Oscar Isaac playing an Englishman who is the alternate identity of an American. Also Benedict Wong as Wong and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Mordo. Both also very rarely use their real accents. Finn Jones (Danny Rand) and Jessica Henwick (Colleen Wing), too. David Tennant played Kilgrave as English, but is himself Scottish. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 24, 2022 23:29:35 GMT -5
Also, has Peter Stormare ever used his real accent in a movie outside of Sweden?
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Post by The Captain on Dec 24, 2022 23:33:02 GMT -5
Also, has Peter Stormare ever used his real accent in a movie outside of Sweden? Maybe not in non-Swedish movies. But in Elder Scrolls Online, he voices Jorunn the Skald-King! As the character is a Nord (who are none-too-vaguely based in Scandinavian/Viking fantasy), he speaks in his real accent. 
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 24, 2022 23:40:13 GMT -5
Also, has Peter Stormare ever used his real accent in a movie outside of Sweden? Maybe not in non-Swedish movies. But in Elder Scrolls Online, he voices Jorunn the Skald-King! As the character is a Nord (who are none-too-vaguely based in Scandinavian/Viking fantasy), he speaks in his real accent. P Uses his real accent, technically still playing a different nationality. Seems especially on-brand for him. |
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Post by bibboid on Dec 25, 2022 0:12:26 GMT -5
Hearing Hugh Laurie's regular speaking voice really threw me off after his playing House for so long. I remember an awards show about 5 years into House’s run where Hugh Laurie came out and spoke in his normal voice. His American co-presenter immediately breaks into a wild cockney accent and said “I thought we were doing funny voices.” I had been watching Hugh on British TV for years How about Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall in Coming To America? |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 25, 2022 1:14:10 GMT -5
I remember an awards show about 5 years into House’s run where Hugh Laurie came out and spoke in his normal voice. His American co-presenter immediately breaks into a wild cockney accent and said “I thought we were doing funny voices.” Because he found it easier to keep using his Wormtongue accent between takes rather than switching back and forth with his real accent both Bernard Hill and Karl Urban asked Brad Dourif why he was doing a bad impression of an American accent when he wrapped filming Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. |
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Post by dav on Dec 25, 2022 6:44:44 GMT -5
Eli Wallach, an American of Polish-Jewish descent playing Mexican bandits in several films.
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Post by Zombie Mod on Dec 25, 2022 8:07:13 GMT -5
Short Circuit had a Jewish guy play whose surname was Jabituya. With full on offensive accent. he then went on to play a humanoid dinosaur and then later voiced a dog |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 25, 2022 8:32:13 GMT -5
 Leonard Nimoy, a Jewish American of Ukrainian descent (with a strong Bostonian accent at the time), playing a Native American. Nimoy also played characters from Mexico, South America, Cuba, and the Basque Country in his early career. |
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 25, 2022 9:08:01 GMT -5
Dan Hedaya made a career out of playing Italian-Americans despite having no Italian heritage (his parents were Syrian).
Al Pacino, who is Italian-American, had arguably his most famous role playing a Cuban.
90% of Arnold Schwarzenegger's roles have been full-blooded Americans.
Mark Dacascos is an American who father is Chinese-Fillipino-Spanish and mother is Irish-Japanese. One of his more famous roles is as a French-speaking Native American.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Dec 25, 2022 9:36:01 GMT -5
Marc Mero played Johnny B Badd, who I believe, was supposed to be black.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Dec 25, 2022 11:11:29 GMT -5
How about half of all of the Australians on American television? Yvonne Strahovski, Portia de Rossi, Julian McMahon, Joel Edgerton, even Chris and Liam Hemsworth. It's almost in the contract for every Aussie in Hollywood to play at least one American.
Speaking of Chris Hemsworth, kind of a minor example: the Nine Realms are fictional, so your mileage may vary here, but I do find it funny that the entire Thor franchise has exactly one Nordic actor, Mr. Stellan Skarsgard.
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Post by CMWaters on Dec 25, 2022 11:16:06 GMT -5
Surprised the obvious isn't put out there:
John Wayne playing Genghis Khan.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 25, 2022 11:46:11 GMT -5
Surprised the obvious isn't put out there: John Wayne playing Genghis Khan. "Mongolian"  Way ahead of you, buddy. |
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