Why All the British actors end up taking American roles....

[Field Marshall Bradley]

I pointed this out in another thread. UK actors and actresses are able to nail accents and lingo some in america cant because they been apart of performing arts since they were young

Give me 3 examples of the lingo and accents that British nikkas can do better than American nikkas..... I’ll wait....

 

[kingofnyc]

Hollywood movies produced and financed by Jews
Unless you're one privileged cac you have no stake in that industry

and exactly WHAT dose that have to do with Hollywood being in America

again, Nollywood can create whatever American story / film they want & have an all cast of Nigerians, we black Americans wouldn't have a problem with it - because we understand that their movie is for them

 

[cornercommission2k12]

Give me 3 examples of the lingo and accents that British nikkas can do better than American nikkas..... I’ll wait....

your in a thread revealing how british actors and actresses are landing american roles in order to do that they have to shave their british accents and have an american accent, like you really doing this?

That comes from training and coaching. Their schooling is what enables them to pull this off. I hate when I make an entire post and you all dont like the post but cang refute it so you deflect to some other shyt. Like we really going tit for tat over a Idris Elba who has pulled off an american accent a dozen times? Even eviro just pulled off a southern slave accent , like we really doing this?

That's not the point though, has America done a disservice to performing arts, drama courses etc or not, that's the point of my post. You don't have to like me pointing that out but quit with the childish deflection smh

 

[Tim Dripcan]

Let them keep Hollyweird. Black Americans/ADOS should try and create our OWN film industry. I know this post comes off as dap fishing but I believe it.

This is what I said as well when I see Samuel L Jackson and other Black American celebrities upset about non Black Americans taking their roles (rightfully so). However, they have the money to pool their resources together to do so. All those white movie productions are white owned for a reason.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

I don’t see what this has to do with American cinema and the type of movies that are made over here. Do you think black British actors are better actors than American blacks?

Not what I think but what Hollywood thinks.. They can get seasoned Brit actors for less than they would have to pay American actors... You hate to see it

 

[kingofnyc]

I pointed this out in another thread. UK actors and actresses are able to nail accents and lingo some in america cant because they been apart of performing arts since they were young but in america you basically gotta have a ton of money to attend these schools for acting and the black youth who do attend normally come from white neighborhoods which is why they can land a role on the Disney channel but usually cant go further than that in landing a black role in Hollywood.

But this is also true for white actors and actresses as well which is why so many leads in major white shows like game of thrones, walking dead etc are going to white Canadian and british people. The real issue is we need more funding for performing arts and drama courses that were available about 30 years ago but got cut out immediately during school budget cuts. This country chose sports programs over art. That is what the real issue is.

i'm sorry - i ain't hating... i just don't see it

all these UK / non American actors are solid to average AF ... it aint like their a bunch of Denzels, Sam Jax & Morgan Free out there

all these new

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

I pointed this out in another thread. UK actors and actresses are able to nail accents and lingo some in america cant because they been apart of performing arts since they were young but in america you basically gotta have a ton of money to attend these schools for acting and the black youth who do attend normally come from white neighborhoods which is why they can land a role on the Disney channel but usually cant go further than that in landing a black role in Hollywood.

But this is also true for white actors and actresses as well which is why so many leads in major white shows like game of thrones, walking dead etc are going to white Canadian and british people. The real issue is we need more funding for performing arts and drama courses that were available about 30 years ago but got cut out immediately during school budget cuts. This country chose sports programs over art. That is what the real issue is.

Education cuts, after school program cuts in this country are by design.. The same why they got rid of free community college when Reagan bytch ass become president

 

[cornercommission2k12]

This is what I said as well when I see Samuel L Jackson and other Black American celebrities upset about non Black Americans taking their roles (rightfully so). However, they have the money to pool their resources together to do so. All those white movie productions are white owned for a reason.

And this is all I been saying. Why the hell do we keep bytching about what white ass Hollywood is doing? They have never had our best interest at hand and I remember a time where we knew that. We never expected Hollywood to create a movie that did us justice. Even if they found a black american women it still would have been a dozen things wrong with the film. So if a black american gets the role then we ok with the feminist. white savior., tones in the film? We ok with a totally made up black bounty hunter? We ok with her letting the enslaver of her family and murderer of her friend live? We good on that if a black american gets all the roles?

We need our own institutions. This has turned into massa pick me cause I been here the longest as your slave. How dare massa favor another colored! Smh I'm not getting on that board.

 

[Reece]

nikkas don’t go into acting like that. How many dudes you knew growing up that said they wanted to act Almost everyone wanted to play basketball, football or rap. Whereas in the UK, becoming a stage actor or a film actor is a big thing. And they doing it since 12 years old. Not getting into it at 20 years old trying to wing their way into fame and celebrity. If we don’t like it, we gotta do better.

 

[cornercommission2k12]

i'm sorry - i ain't hating... i just don't see it

all these UK / non American actors are solid to average AF ... it aint like their a bunch of Denzels, Sam Jax & Morgan Free out there

all these new

I gotcha but I ain't seeing the up and coming black American stars who killing shyt either. As I said in another thread you dam near rather be a social media comedian or a rapper because you will land more roles. But that's more on Hollywood not wanting to place budgets behind a lot of black dramas that could showcase range unless its yet another slave civil rights movie that can on a subtle level paint white folks in a new light.

We bytching and complaining but running right back to the same white institutions for opportunities. That is ass backwards

 

[Premeditated]

even though I'm ultimately for who ever is best for the role should have the role regardless of which black ethnicity, alot of these brits don't have the nuance to play a complex black american role. They don't have the presence either, except Idris, but even then his true accent slips when he's yelling in the movie. I did notice Daniel Kulaayu in Scorpio though regardless of his supporting character. We'll see what's he's truly made off with that Hampton movie. I think he can pull it off.
But there's not a black Brit actor that's even on Eddie Murphy level(in serious scenes). let alone the heavy hitters...

 

[Abraxus]

You said what we were all thinking

 

[Reece]

Those are American movies for American audiences.

no one gives a shyt if a black Brit plays an American in the UK. This point seems to keep flying over people’s head.

This is silly. Hollywood is the world capital for movies. Every country doesn’t have its own entertainment industry that can match what we have because ours is the global epicenter. You can’t ask the entire world to watch our movies and pay their money at the box office (which we do) but then say they can’t act in them.

 

[Cadillac]

Pretty much this 100%

British actors are usually legit professionals before you ever see them in a commercial, TV show or movie.

When dealing with A-list actors, it's all the same regardless of where you come from. HOWEVER...studios generally think they can get a better B/C/D list actor from the UK versus an American, and for less money. Theater is in their culture at a deeper level and their young/new actors are more experienced than our young actors.

Not saying it's right or wrong, but if the Brit is the same or better and costs less money

so name these young new UK british actors then.
that have shown to be able to convincingly play and act as an ADOS

Daniel Kaluuya deserves any role he gets

Mans a top actor and a top bloke

No he aint

 

[cornercommission2k12]

nikkas don’t go into acting like that. How many dudes you knew growing up that said they wanted to act Almost everyone wanted to play basketball, football or rap. Whereas in the UK, becoming a stage actor or a film actor is a big thing. And they doing it since 12 years old. Not getting into it at 20 years old trying to wing their way into fame and celebrity. If we don’t like it, we gotta do better.

I legit dont even know anyone who into any kind of drama courses unless it's a child actor or actress. All I see is like you said those into comedy skits, sports, music and modeling. You would be hard pressed to find schools that even have full stage plays now. I don't know one parent who kid is apart of a stage play. That is problematic. Some of these people coming from the uk been doing this since they was 5 and 6 years old. We need to get our kids back into that and create our own institutions to provide jobs for it so we don't get what we have in Hollywood. Which is a ton of broke struggling artist laying up on Hollywood boulevard begging for change or asking for donations for doing dumb shyt