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 1 month ago
Damage@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Plus it’s easier to find huge, intimidating guys that way
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Are we still talking about casting?
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 month 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 1 month ago
Putin did it all to keep that Hollywood goon money coming
Allonzee@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
This is a typecast:
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iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
As if Russian actors will get the parts.
Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 1 month ago
Plot twist: they now get Ukrainian to act as russian spy.
teft@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Really any eastern european will work. It’s not like we americans usually know what foreign language is being spoken.
moody@lemmings.world 1 month ago
Yeah, really. Peter Stormare has been playing Russian villains for decades and he’s Swedish.
peto@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Any European really, Sean Connery might be dead but his memory lives on.