Idris Elba on specifically ONLY casting Jamaican actors for HIS MOVIE Yardie - "I wanted it to be authentic. I didn't want it to be inauthentic"

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Have you seen a black Non-Ameican imitate an Atlanta accent or a New Orleans accent bruh?

:comeon:

That lie that British actors can just play any ol Black American needs to stop. There's never been a British actor in the history of this planet that has ever pulled off those accents
No I haven’t bytch nikka

The thread is about Jamaican accents

Should I have brought up Atlanta accents too

My bad
 

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Unless you get the accent perfectly done let someone else do it …

This is especially a problem when I hear regional accents butchered …
He actually got worse with his American accent over the years. nikka was horrible in Prometheus. I was so confused. Especially since southern accents are the easiest for Brits to do.
 

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Now that this has been exposed, I'm just gonna wait until this goes viral :mjlol:
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Yep their situation is different
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Op read this and try again




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Have you seen a black Non-American imitate an Atlanta accent or a New Orleans accent bruh?

:comeon:

That lie that British actors can just play any ol Black American needs to stop. There's never been a British actor in the history of this planet that has ever pulled off those accents
 

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He actually got worse with his American accent over the years. nikka was horrible in Prometheus. I was so confused. Especially since southern accents are the easiest for Brits to do.
Southern accents are specific

That’s what they don’t get

Like someone can tell what part of the Carolinas you came from … it’s not just one big cowboy /southern/ Texas/ Mississippi accent
 
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