British Actors: Posh or Not? - the Data Lounge
Jul 31, 2023 · Anthony Hopkins, Julie Walters, Helen Mirren have working-class roots, Ian McKellen and Judi Dench were middle class. Florence Pugh grew up rich with a successful restauranteur father but her family claims working-class roots. James Norton's (Star Trek: Picard) parents were teachers and then he went to Cambridge.
Why are so many British actors playing American heroes? - the …
Nov 14, 2020 · More than 85% are played by American actors. However their general quality of acting means you are likely remembering the Brits such as Henry Cavill (Superman), Christian Bale (Batman) and Patrick Stewart (Professor Xavier) on merit. Should point out that of the 11 actors to portray Superman, only one was British.
Gay British actors .... - the Data Lounge
Oct 11, 2015 · Genuinely GAY British actors of past and present. Dirk Bogarde Charles Gray Tim Curry Peter Wyngarde Richard Chamberlain Sir John Gielgud Ian Charleson Harry Andrews Gordon Jackson Christopher Biggins Edward Hibbert Graham Chapman Ian Charleson John Inman. by Anonymous.
Are British Actors Better Educated than American Ones? - the Data …
Oct 7, 2020 · British actors are more likely to go to universities with good acting programs, or acting schools. Hollywood is only interested in actors who drop out of high school and start working and learning in front of the camera as teens, like Lawrence and Scarlett Johanssen.
joe locke debuts garbage american accent in agatha all along trailer
Aug 29, 2024 · The accent thing is interesting. To make it big in Hollywood or Streaming, many British, Irish, Australian and Kiwi actors need to be able to do an American accent somewhat convincingly. Even the better ones slip up all the time. A good example is when Andrew Lincoln in TWD always trips on the rhotic R transition and says Coral for Carl.
I’m Sick of These Goddamned British Actors Faking Our Accents …
Jan 9, 2022 · They let British actors play upscale, rich, educated Americans with their real accents, or toned down posh accents that became mid-Altantic. Audiences felt those kinds of upper-crust Americans spoke like Brits anyway.
The Fall Guy - jacked Ryan Gosling and some British actors
Jan 9, 2024 · Blunt plays a film director that stunt man Gosling used to date is eager to win back. 🤮 Apparently, he ghosted her and she’s pissed off at him. To impress her, he agrees to locate the film’s leading man who’s been kidnapped. Blech! That …
Actors you wish had been more prolific - the Data Lounge
Sep 14, 2024 · Actors you wish had been more prolific. Watching lots of old movies lately and I can’t help but wonder what might have been with some of the actors I’ve watched whose careers seemed somewhat short lived. Samantha Eggar was a beautiful, stylish British actress who peaked in the 60s. Her career seemed to trail off in the 70s.
British TV Fall-Winter 2022 (part 2) - the Data Lounge
Nov 29, 2022 · Hardly current British TV, but I'm enjoying He Knew He Was Right (2004). David Tennant is very funny as a fickle reverend in the B plot, Bill Nighy is... Bill Nighy, and the rest of the cast is a murderer's row of British actors -- Anna Massey, Fenella Woolgar, Stephen Campbell Moore, Geraldine James, Geoffrey Palmer, a young Matthew Goode, etc.
Samuel L Jackson is NOT happy that Black british actors are …
Mar 8, 2017 · The truth is that most US actors did theater in undergrad and some even did theater in graduate school. The idea that most American actors just woke up and drove to LA to act is outdated and probably was never true. British actors are just riding the wave of anglophilia and the presumption they are smart and cultured even though most are not.