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Post by countjohn on Dec 20, 2019 21:15:59 GMT
What I mean by this is actors who play a different nationality so often an so convincingly a lot of the audience think they are that nationality.
You see this a lot with old Hollywood, both with Americans passing as Europeans and Europeans passing as Americans. I have a feeling a lot of people think of Cary Grant and Liz Taylor as Americans for instance. I always have to remind myself that Grace Kelly was an American and not British too.
You might see this in modern times with Americans who do a bunch of European period stuff, although I can't think of anyone right off hand. Maybe some people think big movie stars like Christian Bale are Americans just because they so frequently do an American accent in their movies, but most people know that people like him/Crowe/Jackman exc aren't American.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Dec 20, 2019 21:19:42 GMT
just for one example, I was pretty stunned after watching Get Out to discover that Kaluuya was English. The accent was flawless.
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Post by countjohn on Dec 20, 2019 21:36:39 GMT
just for one example, I was pretty stunned after watching Get Out to discover that Kaluuya was English. A lot of the recent crop of black UK actors could be examples of this. A lot of people probably just assume they are African-American especially since those are the parts they usually get in Hollywood movies. |
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Post by cherry68 on Dec 20, 2019 22:43:20 GMT
What I mean by this is actors who play a different nationality so often an so convincingly a lot of the audience think they are that nationality. You see this a lot with old Hollywood, both with Americans passing as Europeans and Europeans passing as Americans. I have a feeling a lot of people think of Cary Grant and Liz Taylor as Americans for instance. Actually Elizabeth Taylor, born in London from American parents, had American citizenship. |
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Post by hugobolso on Dec 20, 2019 22:55:20 GMT
Audrey Hepburn, in fact I have no idea about her nationality. She was belgian, english, dutch, swiss or american?
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Post by cherry68 on Dec 20, 2019 23:02:32 GMT
Charlize Theron. A lot of people don't remember she's from South Africa.
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Post by MsMovieStar on Dec 20, 2019 23:26:54 GMT
Oh honey, of course the most famous one was Merle Oberon who claimed she was from Tasmania, Australia, instead of Bombay, India... Thank God! People can just be themselves these days... She was very beautiful. I can't remember whether her mother had to pretend to be her maid... which is terrible... but that might be apocryphal. With Laurence Olivier in Wuthering Heights (1939)  |
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Dec 21, 2019 20:28:38 GMT
Yul Brynner
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Post by cherry68 on Dec 21, 2019 20:56:26 GMT
Charles Bronson.
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Post by bob-coppola on Dec 21, 2019 23:54:31 GMT
I don't know... Unless their nationality is really integral to their personality (like being irish is such a huge trait for Saoirse Ronan), I don't even think about it and assume everyone's either american or british.
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Post by jakesully on Dec 22, 2019 15:16:53 GMT
Oscar Isaac played an Arab named Bassam in Body of Lies and in other films he plays white characters & hispanic characters. Would that count?
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Post by Allenism on Dec 23, 2019 12:45:15 GMT
I feel like a lot of people just assumed Donald Sutherland was British but he’s just a Maritimer Canadian.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 23, 2019 15:02:44 GMT
Cliff Curtis.
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Post by Christ_Ian_Bale on Dec 23, 2019 22:02:03 GMT
My head nearly exploded when I first heard Cary Elwes' real accent.
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Post by stephen on Dec 23, 2019 22:31:06 GMT
Benedict Cumberbatch could almost pass for a human being.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 24, 2019 1:14:56 GMT
Elizabeth Taylor was an American. Cary Grant came to America when he was 16 and lived there for the rest of his life.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Dec 24, 2019 1:53:34 GMT
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Post by countjohn on Dec 24, 2019 22:04:29 GMT
Oscar Isaac played an Arab named Bassam in Body of Lies and in other films he plays white characters & hispanic characters. Would that count? That's kind of a modern version of the "exotic" actors they used to have in old Hollywood who would play Arabs, Hispanics, people from Eastern Europe or even east Asians sometimes. Pretty much anything besides a WASP or a black person. Someone like Anthony Quinn or Omar Sharif. |
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