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

[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.

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

Was Optimus Prime busy with a different project at the time?

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

Well it just wouldn't be the same if a guy wearing a tux came up to a woman and said "Ello' Gov'nah! Name is Bond. James Bond, it surely is!"

[lost_my_mind@lemmy.world]

Everyone in the comments is getting so bent out of shape over "They cast THIS guy, to play THIS role, but he's clearly not that thing!"

But nobody is bringing up the fact that for the past 10 years they've cast Jimmy Fallon as a comedian.....

[21cabbage@lemmynsfw.com]

I've got some nostalgia for the movie since it's where my name came from but yeah, it's definitely shows the ahhh.... sensitivity of the time.

[regrettable_incident@lemmy.world]

Didn't he already do that in Highlander? Although TBF it wasn't pretty.

[zorque@lemmy.world]

Dick Van Dyke for the next Bond?

[postprocess@lemmy.world]

"I'm not Spanish, I'm Egyptian..."

[tachyontele@lemm.ee]

It's annoying how people don't understand he's not a Spaniard.

[bearofatime@lemm.ee]

I'm not sure I follow? His character is Egyptian, he was immortal. Though I take OP's point, he couldn't really be Scottish since he had been alive long before Scotland existed, possibly before the Picts even.

[bearofatime@lemm.ee]

He stole it from Highlander!

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

Is there any movie where Sean Connery plays a Scotsman?

[kolanaki@yiffit.net]

And only on the land.

[bearofatime@lemm.ee]

It's as if any play is for a given audience, and we have to bridge the gap with our own imagination. Crazy, right?

Mind, I'm not criticizing your point, I agree with it, Hollywood has never been great with accents, it just has to be "good enough", like watching a stage play and the props have to be "good enough".