'Highlander' is a Scottish-themed movie about highland clans. And they cast Seán Connery in it AS A SPANIARD

[renfield@lemmy.ml]

and everyone playing a Scottish character can't do a Scottish accent

[spankmonkey@lemmy.world]

Connery played a character who was born in Egypt and most recently had adopted the persona of a Spaniard.

[sgforce@lemmy.ca]

I feel like Hollywood was trolling with Connery's roles. They cast him as a fucking Russian sub commander with that accent!

[dagwood222@lemm.ee]

Nothing beats John Wayne as a Mongol.

[thepowerofgeek@lemmy.world]

And they cast a French-American as a Scott. And an American as a Russian.

They were all over the place with that cast. But yes, Sean Cover as a Spaniard has to be the pick if the bunch.

Still a great movie though. Let's just not even talk about the sequel movies!

[pelespirit@sh.itjust.works]

Craig Ferguson did a joke about that in his stand up. He was so excited to hear Sean Connery was going to do a movie with a focus in Scotland, lol.

[aboubenadhem@lemmy.world]

And they couldn’t find an actor of Russian ancestry to play the Kurgan... but they did have an actor of Russian ancestry play another famous fantasy Spaniard swordsman—Inigo Montoya—a year later.

Connery, Brown, and Patinkin all did great in their roles, though.

[kyle_the_g@lemmy.world]

a dude playing a dude dressed up as a dude disguised as another dude!

[drsleepless@lemmy.world]

Who you calling “you people”?

[tin@feddit.uk]

There was only one film, don't know what you're talking about with sequels.

And if there were sequels, there was only one of them and it was Highlander 3

[homesweethomemrl@lemmy.world]

Dude, you're supposed to watch the movie high

[mouselemming@sh.itjust.works]

Louise Rainer (The Good Earth) and Katharine Hepburn (Dragon Seed) would like a word.

[metastatic@kbin.earth]

They used to cast actors of appropriate skill

[thegr8goldfish@startrek.website]

That movie holds up!

[skunkworkz@lemmy.world]

Hollywood movies rarely do accents right anyway.

[nikelui@lemmy.world]

Imagine your selling point being good at acting and not your nationality. Unbelievable.
/s

[rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works]

Mickey Rooney as a "chinaman"?

[the_artic_one@programming.dev]

They used to cast actors of appropriate skill nepotism

FTFY, they still do, but they used to as well.

[anticorp@lemmy.world]

What do you mean by "you people"?

[anticorp@lemmy.world]

Yet he nailed the role. They changed all of the Russian lines to English anyways, with a really creative method that hadn't been done before.