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.
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.
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.
17 replies
Plot twist: they now get Ukrainian actor to act as russian spy.
Really any eastern european will work. It's not like we americans usually know what foreign language is being spoken.
Yeah, really. Peter Stormare has been playing Russian villains for decades and he's Swedish.
Always cracks me up how Swedes are cast as Russians. Guess they convincingly do that stereotypical "Russian voice"
Excuse me say what?
Any European really, Sean Connery might be dead but his memory lives on.
European?
I thought he was Egyptian.
True, the clue is the samurai sword.
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.
Plus it's easier to find huge, intimidating guys that way
Are we still talking about casting?
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.
Putin did it all to keep that Hollywood goon money coming
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.
As if Russian actors will get the parts.
This is a typecast: