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It's extremely rare. And an American playing a Brit is kind of a tired trope nowadays.
I guess it just comes down to the actor when it comes to accent. Apparently Sam Worthington, despite having English parents, couldn’t actually do the accent for his Bond audition. https://www.joblo.com/sam-worthington-details-awful-james-bond-audition/amp/
Yeah he's done British a few times (Rush, Thor, Men in Black) and it's always pretty bad! :) I remember that Netflix action film he did being a real relief: he got to be Aussie in it and it was so much better for it.
I must admit I had no idea about Ehle: I thought that was her natural accent. I suppose I did think it was odd that she basically disappeared for the last twenty years! :)
I don't think I've heard Weaver go English, but I didn't realise she was half English either. I guess Gillian Anderson is another in a way; although she speaks with an English accent now I could have sworn she spoke with an American one twenty years ago!
True. Worthington’s not my favourite actor but it is interesting to read. Similar to what Henry Cavill has said about his Bond auditions. Personally I can’t imagine how nerve wracking such an audition process would be.
I guess it also shows just how much Craig’s confidence and naturalness in the part stood out. I mean, we hear stories of failed Bond candidates on and off - how they couldn’t nail the accent, how they couldn’t project the charm, their problems with costume, getting into shape, or simply getting into the role etc. Craig seems to have shown up (according to BB) to his first audition with cuff links that weren’t done up, and going from the footage we do have of his auditions he was clearly in need of a haircut and shave at the time.
It's a weird one with Ehle, because when I first saw her, and for several years after, it was only in things where she'd got an English accent - and then when I saw some interview where she used her actual accent I was totally wrongfooted: 'what's she speaking like that for?!' I had no idea she was American.
Sigourney did an English accent in some film with Mel Gibson decades ago. I've not seen it since the '90s, so I could be misremembering, but I was impressed at the time by how well she did it. Not to diminish the quality of it, but I wonder to what extent Sigourney and Ehle were imitating their mothers' accents? Weird to think that Sam Worthington can't do it even though both his parents are English, though...
At least the author of this piece has included some, potential actors on this list.
Along with plenty of the usual silliness that often goes with an article like this.
For amusement only.
Some legitimate, most ludicrous.
Because British actors by and large can take an American accent more easily. Bit the American actor playing a Brit has been overdone in the past and often ridiculed (Dick van Dyke, Kevin Costner).
On a similar note, I recently watched Aftersun with Paul Mescal. Not an actor I’ve thought about a lot for Bond (although I know he’s been mentioned a few times here). Great performance, and hard to believe he’s only in his mid-20s (for context he plays a 31 year old who has issues with adulthood, which makes that ability to project that world weariness/maturity even more impressive). I can definitely see him being approached to audition.
Plus, I believe there is some subconscious lobbying for him as Bond in that film. At one point an Asian man with a bowler hat who doesn't have a single line and AFAIK doesn't appear in any other scene joins the fray to fight Cavill and there is a point where a character (not Sherlock) is described as a "blunt instrument" and the camera cuts to Cavill and lingers maybe a millisecond longer than it needs to.
I first saw him in Fleabag. He can do comedy well, and it looks like he gets a chance to show off his acting chops in this movie. It's also interesting that someone just brought up Enola Holmes 2. The man that made both Enola Holmes movies is English director Harry Bradbeer, who also directed Fleabag and Killing Eve. I think Aldridge/Bradbeer/Waller-Bridge could be a good trio for a more fun, escapist, humorous Bond.
Yeah he's the other one I was thinking of. Truly flawless. I think he's half-English or something.
If you want to see a group of American actors really making an effort on the accent front, watch Ginger and Rosa (2012).
Yes he would.
Looks like a good series, my kind of series in any case. Not sure about Lowden, but that's a good vehicle for him to be assessed.
Bet for what ? The part played by Rowan Atkinson in NSNA ?
I am reminded of a young Roger Moore here (American actor Jonathan Groff) :-)
Yes, just saw Dickinson in The Triangle of Sadness. Definitely a star on the rise.