Quentin Tarantino Didn’t Cast Idris Elba in ‘Django Unchained’ to Avoid ‘Phony Accents’ in the Film

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So was The Wire and a lot of the key cast members weren't American.

It's acting. You just need to act the part not be the part. Half the time the audience doesn't even know the person in the role is a Brit because they're believable in character.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/idris-elba-on-specifically-only-casting-jamaican-actors-for-his-movie-yardie-i-wanted-it-to-be-authentic-i-didnt-want-it-to-be-inauthentic.935561

@BlackMajik with the receipts

Idris Elba doesn't seem to agree with this take himself

 

[Scientific Playa]

What don't people like you understand about him just doing regular generic accents???




Reminds me of the other thread we had on him where Idris got exposed as being full of shyt lol

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/idris-elba-on-specifically-only-casting-jamaican-actors-for-his-movie-yardie-i-wanted-it-to-be-authentic-i-didnt-want-it-to-be-inauthentic.935561/#post-46936581

Reminds me of Denzel catching some accent heat in

 

[HandyWithTheSteel]

Nah, he's full of shyt because he didn't care about casting Margot Robbie or Tim Roth to play Californians or new yorkers.

Tim Roth’s accent in Reservoir Dogs was horrible. Maybe Tarantino learned his lesson.

 

[jackswstd]

Disagree, Jamie was outshined by everyone in the movie from Sam Jack, Waltz, n Leo,

What? Jamie more than held his own in this movie.

 

[Supa]

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/idris-elba-on-specifically-only-casting-jamaican-actors-for-his-movie-yardie-i-wanted-it-to-be-authentic-i-didnt-want-it-to-be-inauthentic.935561

@BlackMajik with the receipts

Idris Elba doesn't seem to agree with this take himself

Have you heard an American actor do an authentic Jamaican accent?

That's not something that can be replicated easily like sounding American so you'd have to cast an actual Jamaican.

 

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Have you heard an American actor do an authentic Jamaican accent?

That's not something that can be replicated easily like sounding American so you'd have to cast an actual Jamaican.

Foh with this dumbass shyt

 

[WIA20XX]

all these Australian actors pretending to be Americans

Didn't he put Australian Margot Robbie in his last movie?

 

[Patrick Kane]

So was The Wire and a lot of the key cast members weren't American.

It's acting. You just need to act the part not be the part. Half the time the audience doesn't even know the person in the role is a Brit because they're believable in character.

I understand that completely but that’s not going to fly with a film purist like QT.

He’s the one directing the damn thing and as a masterful as he is as it, I’m sure he knows what he wants to get out of his actors.

He doesn’t want even a touch of a British accent present. When I go back and watch the Wire, there’s CLEAR scenes where you can hear Edris accent. It’s very subtle but definitely there. That wouldn’t work for someone like QT.

Jamie Foxx is from rural ass Texas. I think QT made the right pick here

 

[BlackMajik]

Didn't he put Australian Margot Robbie in his last movie?

That's why he said for his last movie he's not doing that lol

He suddenly realized what's been going on

 

[Rembrandt]

people using Margot Robbie as a gotcha for him wanting to cast American black actors is very weird tbh

I'm trying very hard to understand why this forum would be upset by this

 

[Lonj]

Didn't it come out that Idris has ADOS ancestry on his dads side or something? I remember reading it here a while back.

 

[Edub]

Tarantino wants black American actors to play black American roles….I don’t know why, but it makes sense

 

[Buddy]

I've always said one of the weirdest and funniest things ever in cinema is in movies about Ancient Rome you have these people portraying Romans while using a British Accent

Like if you understand history you know how dumb that is lol

Yeah honestly Hollywood is to blame for putting Britain on a pedestal. I appreciate him mentioning Michael Caine etc cause if you listen to folks on here and elsewhere it only happens to Black Americans

 

[DonB90]

Sidenote you remember Four Brothers that one British Black Actor who played the drug Lord was AWFUL



He was suppose to convince me with that acting he's a Detroit dope boy
Accent=OFF
Mannerisms=OFF




If I was in Detroit and this nikka was in a room with me and anything illegal was finna go on I'd leave immediately cause I'd think he was a cop

 

[BlackMajik]

Sidenote you remember Four Brothers that one British Black Actor who played the drug Lord was AWFUL



He was suppose to convince me with that acting he's a Detroit dope boy
Accent=OFF
Mannerisms=OFF




If I was in Detroit and this nikka was in a room with me and anything illegal was finna go on I'd leave immediately cause I'd think he was a cop

Oh my that was terrible