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http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/decline-american-actor/395291/quote:Is it time for American actors to take a hard look in the mirror? Earlier this year Michael Douglas mused darkly to a magazine interviewer, “I think we have a little crisis going on amongst our young actors at this point,” and Spike Lee, commenting on the “invasion” of black British actors, had some pithy observations on the subject, too: “You want talented people,” he said, and British actors’ “training is very proper, whereas some of these other brothers and sisters, you know, they come in here, and they don’t got that training.” Douglas and Lee, just like the rest of us who go to the movies, are a tad puzzled about why so many good American roles have been going to English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Australian, and Canadian actors. The phenomenon may have reached its unignorable peak in last year’s docudrama Selma: the parts of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King, Governor George Wallace, and President Lyndon B. Johnson were all played by Brits.
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Maybe they should act harder.
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Sep 16, 2015 06:27
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loving canadian actors stealing all the god drat jobs!!!
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Sep 16, 2015 06:27
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who gives a poo poo
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Sep 16, 2015 06:29
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This bullshit wouldn't be happening if Trump was in the white house
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Sep 16, 2015 06:30
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Welsh? Who's letting those sheepfuckers act? (did i do that right brits???)
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Sep 16, 2015 06:37
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Chinatown posted:who gives a poo poo
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starry skies above posted:http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/07/decline-american-actor/395291/ I this Michael Douglas' way of calling african americans lazy?
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Sep 16, 2015 06:45
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Chinatown posted:who gives a poo poo yea who gives is a poo poo let's just let the Brits, from whom we won our freedom, take over our most cherished industry
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Sep 16, 2015 06:48
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starry skies above posted:yea who gives is a poo poo let's just let the Brits, from whom we won our freedom, take over our most cherished industry aspergers must be a terrible thing to have to live with on a daily basis
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Sep 16, 2015 06:51
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i literally almost just typed daniel day lewis because of gangs of new york or there will be blood, proving he is better at being an american than americans
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Sep 16, 2015 06:53
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Chinatown posted:who gives a poo poo
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Sep 16, 2015 06:54
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As an idiot who becomes confused and shuts down when they hear an unfamiliar accent, this is a tragedy
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Sep 16, 2015 06:54
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Dey took er jerbs!
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Sep 16, 2015 06:56
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Movies are boring now, and Americans have enough good sense to get out while the getting is good.
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Sep 16, 2015 07:01
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I guess we take their jobs in revenge. Chimney sweeps, cobble stone pavers, drunken criminal...
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Sep 16, 2015 07:01
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Cor, blimey.
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Sep 16, 2015 07:03
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like how many movies have you watched where you recognize the same actor and every role is american then you find out they're brit oz kiwi etc
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Sep 16, 2015 07:07
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so what? we outsource all our other jobs
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Sep 16, 2015 07:10
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go act where you came from
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Sep 16, 2015 07:10
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Fat Jesus posted:go act where you came from A group of 5 Americans visit the industries that foreign actors escaped from.
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Sep 16, 2015 07:12
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real americans are too busy doing important stuff like innovating freedom solutions to waste time playing make believe in front of a camera
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Sep 16, 2015 07:13
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like every character in horns was played by a brit
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Sep 16, 2015 07:16
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Chinatown posted:who gives a poo poo jews
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Maldoror posted:like every character in horns was played by a brit and it was obvious
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Sep 16, 2015 07:38
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why aren't the politicians doing anything about this? stopping our youth from moving upward socially
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Sep 16, 2015 07:40
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Like any other trend, it prolly involves circumventing some sort of pro-worker thing for more producer kash
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Sep 16, 2015 07:42
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 hello, black brits are the master race
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Sep 16, 2015 07:45
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I thought it was because movies make a lot of $$ overseas and it helps to have nonamericans onscreen
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Neurolimal posted:Like any other trend, it prolly involves circumventing some sort of pro-worker thing for more producer kash yep. foreigners cant get SAG cards which is the main thing producers hate
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Sep 16, 2015 07:51
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all the agents must be from australia and the uk because god knows some of those actors have horrible american accents
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Chinatown posted:who gives a poo poo
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we just dont have as hearty a stock as the hemsworths or the hardys of the world with this beefcake revolution coming from overseas, how are we supposed to compete? even gosling is canadian for gods sake. the last true american grade-a beef comes from the wwf, the rock and cena are our last hope as a nation.
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Sep 16, 2015 08:33
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extra stout posted:i literally almost just typed daniel day lewis because of gangs of new york or there will be blood, proving he is better at being an american than americans OTOH, Gary Oldman.
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Sep 16, 2015 08:52
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Haha you guys have to import actually manly actors in order to get anybody with a deep voice. What, are you gonna use Chris Pine? Lol Hugh Jackman is manlier than any of your guys and he's a song and dance man
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Sep 16, 2015 08:58
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Maybe they should be as hot as Karl Urban. That's just capitalism.
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Sep 16, 2015 09:02
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don't got that training shameful
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Sep 16, 2015 09:04
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This is because they are cheaper than Americans. The BBC can explain. Apparently they call English 'White Mexicans' in Hollywood which is maybe racist especially when speaking of Idris Elba.
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Sep 16, 2015 09:06
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Maybe if Americans were hotter we wouldn't have this problem.
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Chinatown posted:aspergers must be a terrible thing to have to live with on a daily basis
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