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[-] Annoyed_Crabby 55 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Plot twist: they now get Ukrainian actor to act as russian spy.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago

Really any eastern european will work. It's not like we americans usually know what foreign language is being spoken.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 35 points 3 months ago

Yeah, really. Peter Stormare has been playing Russian villains for decades and he's Swedish.

[-] teft@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Peter Stormare has been playing Russian villains for decades and he’s Swedish.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Always cracks me up how Swedes are cast as Russians. Guess they convincingly do that stereotypical "Russian voice"

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Excuse me say what?

[-] peto@lemm.ee 13 points 3 months ago

Any European really, Sean Connery might be dead but his memory lives on.

[-] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

European?

I thought he was Egyptian.

[-] peto@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

True, the clue is the samurai sword.

[-] ZealousSealion@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 3 months ago

The supposedly russian bad guys are mostly not actually russian. Mostly they are some variety of native Germanic speaking actors. If the casting department is going for authenticity, it may be someone speaking the wrong branch of Slavic.

[-] Damage@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 months ago

Plus it's easier to find huge, intimidating guys that way

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Are we still talking about casting?

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 20 points 3 months ago

Half of the actors playing Russian/eastern European villains are German or Swedish or something, and another quarter are British/American/Australian/Irish actors with varying quality of dialect coaching.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 16 points 3 months ago

Putin did it all to keep that Hollywood goon money coming

[-] Allonzee@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As if Hollywood hasn't been completely monopolized and enshittified to the point that they no longer seem capable of making anything worth watching.

Fuck David Zaslav for leading the enshittification charge in this particular economic sector, by the way. Plastic faced, greedy ass, anti-union, anti-creative fancy lad ghoul.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

As if Russian actors will get the parts.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 months ago

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