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TBH ive been staggered by how good our actors/actresses are at doing an American accent.
I have had to point out to my other half that the person on screen is in fact British,and she is very surprised when it happens.
British actors are getting plum roles on American TV and films atm.
Actually some of the worst examples of 'American' that I have seen by a Brit are ironically in Bond films. They tend to exaggerate the drawl. An example is Dulice Liecier (who played one of Felix's operatives) in TLD. There are other instances but it's not coming to me now.
True, and it goes the other way too. There are dialects in 'American' as well. NYC is different from Boston is different from L.A.
Keanu Reeves excels at roles where he essentially plays himself. Although I've heard theater actors speak highly of him.
I know many of them do American accents very well and get good roles playing Americans all the time. (And if they couldn't do the accents they wouldn't get the roles so much.) I was just thinking that surely they aren't all good at it.
I know many are excellent, that's what I mostly hear, but I was thinking that some must be bad, too. Just like some Americans can surely do impeccable British accents. My thinking is that it's probably more who's good (or not) at accents, that it depends on the individual rather than people being good or bad at it mainly based on where they're from. I might be wrong as well, but it would just make more sense to me that way.
And then there are Brits doing various British accents or Americans doing various American accents. In both cases, presumably some folks are good at it and others not so much, right?
Of course. (Even much smaller areas and much smaller populations have different accents.) I thought I was acknowledging that, but I may have messed up the sentence then. Not being a native speaker or any sort of an expert on accents, I can't generally pick up nuances and can't necessarily tell how well or how badly somebody does an accent, but I'm also not deaf or anything so even I can tell there are definitely lots of different variants of American English. :)
We Englishmen can spot the fakes a mile off!
Ha! So why was it then an Englishman asked me how it came to be that my Dutch is so good?
Pro:
Young, so that there can make more movies
Worked with Andrea Risenbourgh (Bondgirl wish)
Looks like a bit Clive Owen, Brosnan and Roger Moore
Con:
From 1989, but in 2022 he is 33 and in 2025 he is 36.
Worked with Christopher Nolan
Mabey Eon need more control again and less input from him.
Mabey Max Irons will be considerd if you watch trailer of Crooked House
Couldn't come soon enough imho.
I wondered about that after I saw the trailer. He's Jeremy's son. With a few more years in him I can see it. Plus, period based Agatha Christie adaptations have already catapulted one actor into the mix (Turner) so it could happen again. Ironic that there doesn't seem to be a hopeful in the Kenneth Branagh film adaptation of Murder On The Orient Express.
Hardy would be 44 which could work if it's every other year (Calvin Dyson makes the point when discussing 007 apart from Lazenby everyone has done more then one bond film so you need to think in terms of that versus just right now) so Hardy could work if he does a film every other year (doing a trilogy at 44, 46, and 48) but since the production issues keep pushing 3-4 years between Hardy is out (much to others joy and chagrin)
Fassbender is also 40 (see above)
Hiddleston is still viable though at 36 now he would be 40 for his first film and could do a trilogy at say 40 44 and 48 possibly...
so right now Hiddleston wins out.
That is an understatement.
I mean the pool of candidates as a whole. Adrian Turner, Mr Fifty Shades of Beige, Charlie what's his name from that King Arthur train wreck... I'm surprised nobody mentioned Jude Law and Hugh Grant. Or Robbie Williams.
I keep reminding people: If Daniel Craig can be James Bond, so can others. It's all a matter of perspective.
Maybe it's the nostalgia talking but back in 2005 the names brought forward seemed more interesting: James Purefoy, Dominic West, Jason Isaacs... Heck even Henry Cavill then had not been associated with a block of wood yet! Like a lot of people I was skeptical about Craig but it has nothing to do with him. It was about the choices available.
Back then I thought James Purefoy looked like a decent Bond candidate along with Dougray Scott. Far better than today's so called contenders who look more like contestants on American Idol rather than the suave gentleman agent who knows his way around the gambling tables.
Neither did he to me. But now I feel like there's a dozen Julian McMahon instead of one.
Julian McMahon was a serious contender in his own eyes and acted like only a self-proclaimed Bond contender could do: he gloated about how great he'd be in the role. Not unlike Charlie Hunnam now, mind you (although the flop that was King Arthur probably gave him some humility). But all the same, these days there are far more Julian McMahon than back in 2005.