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.
The typecast continues
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ZealousSealion@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Damage@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Plus it’s easier to find huge, intimidating guys that way
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Are we still talking about casting?
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 months ago
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.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 2 months ago
Putin did it all to keep that Hollywood goon money coming
Allonzee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As if Hollywood hasn’t been completely monopolized and enshittified to the point that they seem incapable of making anything worth watching.
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
This is a typecast:
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iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
As if Russian actors will get the parts.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 months ago
Plot twist: they now get Ukrainian to act as russian spy.
teft@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Really any eastern european will work. It’s not like we americans usually know what foreign language is being spoken.
moody@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Yeah, really. Peter Stormare has been playing Russian villains for decades and he’s Swedish.
peto@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Any European really, Sean Connery might be dead but his memory lives on.