The Fox network sci-fi series*** Fringe ***was heavily cast with foreign actors, including Aussies Anna Torv and John Noble.
“Game of Thrones” is really more of an international show than a US one. It’s produced by an American network but is a near-global production effort and most of the shooting is in Europe.
That’s precisely why I’ve been sticking to the large (and, seemingly growing) number of American shows in which English, Irish, Scottish and Aussie actors are cast in lead roles as Americans.
Aussie Simon Baker has been given the lead role, playing an American, in both The Mentalist and The Guardian.
Anglo-Irish actor Linus Roache played the New York District Attorney on Law & Order.
Englishman Hugh Dancy plays American FBI agent Will Graham in Hannibal.
Aussie Alex O’Loughlin is the current McGarrett on the new Hawaii Five-O
And it’s not just in TV- American movies are filled with foreign actors playing Americans. In the acclaimed Selma, most of the lead roles were played by British actors (David Oyelowo, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth and Tom Wilkinson, for instance).
Or, if you want to look at sleazier (but more profitable) movies, the star of 50 Shades of Grey was Jamie Dornan, an Irishman.
I don’t know if this means foreign actors are really good or if American actors are really bad.
Pretty sure it was just those two and the rest of the regulars were played by Americans (except for Canadian Kim “Tig” Coates.)
Not a regular, but S of A had the rare reverse too, with yank Titus Welliver playing an Irish gangster.
I mentioned the movie Selma, but the Oscar-winning*** Twelve Years a Slave ***was also loaded with foreign actors.
Were there really no black American actors good enough to play the leads in those two films? Were the black English actors just THAT much more talented than their American peers?
Do actors in other English-speaking nations just get better training than young American actors?
Although Flanagan is playing a Scottish character.
I was impressed that Hunnam pronounced “Nevada” properly in Season 1 (not the way that people east of Utah pronounce it). Only one other actor did so correctly (forget who, Perlman said it wrong). But IIRC in Season 7 Hunnam reverted to Neh-vaah-daah.
It’s not so much a political point as a practical one; on recent stats, 1 in 3 will be in prison at some point.
I’d guess that one in three are not out on a limb and are part of a spectrum in which not a whole bunch spend 3-4 years at drama school.
How about Hannibal? Both lead actors, Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikklesen are respectively British and Danish (admittedly, in this case Lecter is supposed to be of eastern-European descent), while canucks Caroline Dhavernas, Scott Thompson and Aaron Abrams complete the cast.
1 out of 3 black American actors will be in prison at some point? Bull-fucking-shit.
I can’t see what relevance your statement has to black American actors being cast in roles.
Laurence Fishburne spoils it though. He’s got his name in the opening credits. Scott hasn’t even showed up this season (although I’m an episode behind…).
I never watched Hannibal, but it has Scott Thompson? Mind blown. Who knew that Buddy Cole would be in a serial killer drama.
I wasn’t at all surprised that the Reign cast is almost entirely non-American. Rather, I was surprised to learn that it’s an American production.
Yesterday before I posted my above contribution, I had been about to post about *Reign *in the thread asking for “British TV series with the most eye candy”—because that’s what Reign is, supreme eye candy, the Godiva Gold Ballotins Collection for the eyes—but checked first, only to find it was disqualified from that thread because it’s an American production. Then I found this thread, which is practically tailor-made for Reign.
You’ll have to go pretty far down the cast list of Spartacus before you find an American. First one I could spot was Marisa Ramirez, in a fairly minor supporting role.
Kind of strange that they have a separate page for that season but not the others (it was the 2nd of the 4 by air date). I realize it’s a prequel, but still…
Nick Tarabay is the 5th billed and presumably a US citizen, even if he moved there later.
What the fuck?