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

[purplemonkeydishwasher]

Barrie - Johnny Depp
Potter - Renee Zellwger
now Austen - Ann Big teeth watsername!

just really really gets on my tits!!

no, it annoys the hell out of me as well. have just realised that, that is an American expression

I was thinking the same thing the other day, was wondering if I'm turning into an official old fart.

It annoys me too!

Yes, but the British Toby Jones has just played Truman Capote!

Nope. Annoys me too.

The one that really gets me is bloody Gwyneth "I can only speak in a monotone" Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love.

How many British classically trained actresses are there that could have done that part miles better than her? Ooh, about a million.

So if you're an official old far, dances, then I'm right there with you.

Well Hollywood is full of British and Aussie actors playing American parts, isn't it?

I don't mind Depp & Zellweger but I am not keen on Ann thingy playing Austen, but that's just because she's annoying, not because she's American.

Ah but Gwyneth Paltrow is annoying in everything, Mammaduck

but they are actors
who are 'acting'
they aren't meant to really be the person they are pretending to be....so I think you are being unreasonable!

fart, even.

Although don't feel I am as hardcore old fart as purplemonkey, as could never truly hand on heart say I was 'annoyed' by darling Mr Depp.

You're a more principled woman than I, purplemonkey!

Kevin Costner in Robin Hood Prince of Thieves!!! He doesn't even attempt a British accent even though his on-screen cousin Christian Slater does a creditable job.

He shouldn't have got the part if he wasn't willing to try..

American Robin Hood.. pah!

Yes she is.

Why do people keep casting her. It's a mystery to me.

What about Aussie Nicole Kidman playing Virginia Woolf? Is that ok?
(I would say not but that's because it was such a transparent attempt to be highbrow, not because she's foreign.)

Are all the British actors too busy in Hollywood, being cast in the role of 'Baddy'?

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No, annoys me too. Thought I was just being a miserable old grump.

Glad I'm not alone.

I think you can almost always tell when a (not very well known) american actor is putting on a British accent.. they seem to round off their vowels just a little too much. Our actors seem much better and putting on american accents (Kate Winslet, Ewan McGregor) but maybe people from the US would disagree?

Having said that I thought the bloke paying Susan's British boyfriend in Desperate Housewives was putting his British accent on but my friend told me he is English...

I think you're being unreasonable, if they do it well then I don't care what the nationality of the actor is. I do get annoyed when an obviously unsuitable actor is cast because he/she is a box office draw. I also get really annoyed with historically inaccurate portrayals of true events to make the story more interesting/more sympathetic to one side.

Oh Bran. Don't get me started on Braveheart

oh and mel gibson in braveheart too

harrumph.

LOL.

ironically I not even BRITISH!

'I'M' even.

Yes I often wonder if Directors have noticed there are some English actors out there.

Actually it bugs me when American actors talk about a "British accent". There is no such thing!!!!! But then they tend to use the words English and British interchangeably. Their idea of a "British" (cringe) accent is either Dick Van Dyke Mockney or the Queen. Perhaps our standard "American accent" is just as annoying to them?

I think you're uneasonable. Actors should be allowed to play anyone - otherwise, only Romans would be allowed to play Caesar, only Greeks Alexander the Great, etc.

Just a small pedantic point re American Robin Hood - the English language has changed so much since mediaeval times that English accents are as likely to be wrong as American ones. And American accents are much closer to the English of Southern England in Elizabethan times anyway.