The typecast continues

[teft@lemmy.world]

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

[zealoussealion@discuss.tchncs.de]

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.

[peto@lemm.ee]

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

[moody@lemmings.world]

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

[iamthetot@sh.itjust.works]

As if Russian actors will get the parts.

[damage@slrpnk.net]

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

[bleistift2@sopuli.xyz]

This is a typecast:

const theNumber = 'lol' as Date

[nakarilexfortaine@lemm.ee]

European?

I thought he was Egyptian.

[shalafi@lemmy.world]

Excuse me say what?

[allnewtypeface@leminal.space]

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.

[peto@lemm.ee]

True, the clue is the samurai sword.

[teft@lemmy.world]

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

[allonzee@lemmy.world]

As if Hollywood hasn't been completely monopolized and enshittified to the point that they seem incapable of making anything worth watching.

[kusimulkku@lemm.ee]

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

[kusimulkku@lemm.ee]

Are we still talking about casting?