In being annoyed by AMERICAN actors and actresses playing BRITISH literary icons?

Damian Lewis and Marc Warren did fine in Band of Brothers - Dougray Scott hang your head in shame . I cringe every time he opens his mouth in DHW.
Usually the Brits in ER play British though sobernow (unless there is something about Scott Grimes I'm not aware of)
I have no problem with people being cast against nationality/gender/appearance etc on the whole - it's their job to be able to make a decent stab at other accents.
I do have a problem with tokenistic casting based on US box office potential. So, genuinely talented Renee Zellweger and Johnny Depp, fine - Gwyneth Paltrow and Anne Hathaway (yeah right that's the name she was born with ) not fine

we never seem to make hardly any films at all anyway, unless they're really poncey and will sell to america

Yes, just imagine if Hopkins had decided to eat human flesh in his spare time, just so that he could "get into character"

No, sorry Grant isn't a good actor. He can't act, he is just HIMSELF, floppy haired Notting Hill sort, pretending to be a twit !

who said that???

Thank you cod.. if you are actually replying to me. I seem to be having one of my invisble nights.

Have you been in a time machine? You haven't been codswallop since the dawn of time have you? Or dawn of MN at least...

yes

Oh dear. I am in a different league to you lot clearly. The other night I switched on the TV for something to do while straightening my hair [yawn] and the last twenty minutes of Nine Months was on Sky Movies.. (yes two of your favourites together.. Hugh Grant and Robin Williams..)..

I have seen in many times before but I cried.. literally cried with laughter as RW, in his russian (I think) vet-recently-turned-obstetrician role called a thesaurus a clitoris.. and mispronounced epidural so many times that eventually, Julianne Moore, in extreme labour, eventually rise up of the bed, purple in the face and roars "epidural arsehole!".. . I was sitting there, all on my own, crying with laughter. Haven't done that in months.. and it felt good!

I ^know" it's hardly in the same league as Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth or similar... but would/does no-one else find that type of thing funny..????

DT - what did they do??

it annoys me so much - esp. Bridget Jones.

The worst thing for me was when they re-dubbed the lion, the witch and the wardrobe cartoon with American accents - yes they redubbed it!!!

or "reflective" even!!

post-war period referred to Doris Day, Rock Hudson, James Dean time.

if one starts only "allowing" demographics to be directly relective, we would not have had "My Left Foot" as an eg......

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it's not just an 'american' accent as well, loads of regional accents in the states

(cotton wool behind my year???? Of all the fever-induced-crap I have posted today that has to be the 'best'! I meant of course "cotton wool between my ears!!" )

[shiny takes more brufen and retires to bed]

so quoth his agent.

You disregard everything with Tom Hanks in yellowrose?? Cripes.. think you may be cutting off your nose to spite your face there; not only he is an acclaimed and accomplished actor (who will obviously not be to everybodies tastes I acknowledge), he has also been in a great many films that a are considered, generally, to be well worth watching

Gosh, Hoffman as an Italian chemist...what a hoot ! Must see it !

anyone see The Perfume?? Set in Paris and Provence, but all had English or US drawls, ....except Dustin Hoffman playing an Italian chemist, in Paris, with an accent from somewhere in the mid-Atlantic..

ah...but homosexual actors do a grand job at playing playboys (most don't publicly disclose homosexuality any way)...it's not the same as not being able to pull off an accent.

bran, when we came out of the cinema after seeing The Phantom Menace I said to dh "oh, it's so annoying that they made Ewan McGregor speak in that stupid accent - it's probably because an American audience can't understand a Scottish accent..." and he just looked at me isndisbelief and said "er...he was trying to sound like Alec Guinness."

Oh. Yeah.

....Pitt, Hanks, Cruise also come on my don't bother watching list...

yes, you are being unreasonable.

where DOES it end? Only actors from a particular demographic can play certain parts?? Nothing to do with talent??

besides which, if hetro-sexual leads in Hollywood post-war films had to be hetro-sexual, there wouldn't have been that many films made.

Hugh Grant is IMO fantastic. Ok, his thing is romcoms but I happen to like romcoms a lot of the time - there is many an occasion when I want to watch something light and Hugh and co fit the bill.

Micky Blue Eyes to which you are all referring is the only Hugh Grant film I can remember finding to be total crap.

Music and Lyrics is fantastic.. I am obsessed.. have the sound track and everything. And I am not generally considered to have cotton wool behind my year I don't think..