Casting the wrong nationalities in plays
By S.E
@SerenityEngel (525)
United Kingdom
September 29, 2017 8:16am CST
Yesterday I went to see The Weir an Irish play set in an Irish pub. Not all the cast were Irish, but they were trying. It's a pet hate of mine to see a play where people are pretending to be Irish, America, etc, when they clearly are not and their accents are all over the place as they can't keep it up. In 2017 is it that hard to find actors who are from the countries that the character they are playing is from? Does this bothered other people? Bothers me.
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@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
29 Sep 17
@SerenityEngel
S.E, I understand what you are saying.
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@SerenityEngel (525)
• United Kingdom
29 Sep 17
The play that sticks in my throat was View from the bridge set in America and none of the cast were American and their accents keep coming and going... they were all British. If the actors can keep it up, then fine, when they don't I get annoyed.
@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
1 Oct 17
It infuriates me more than I can say on this site.
Pretend Irish? Oh noooooooooo
English pretending to be Irish infuriates me the most haha
English pretending to be Irish infuriates me the most haha1 person likes this
@TiarasOceanView (70022)
• United States
1 Oct 17
@SerenityEngel Ah well, good he could keep it up then..nudge nudge wink wink hahahah
@SerenityEngel (525)
• United Kingdom
1 Oct 17
The one guy was obviously English. His accent was more Scottish than Irish. 
At least he kept it up though even if he didn't sound Irish.
At least he kept it up though even if he didn't sound Irish. 1 person likes this
@teamfreak16 (43418)
• Denver, Colorado
29 Sep 17
Unless they are really good at it, it does kind of bother me.
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@SerenityEngel (525)
• United Kingdom
30 Sep 17
I have a hard time taking films seriously, as I know everyone is acting. In plays I really need to be able to believe the cast in order to enjoy it as I can see it is being acting out in front of me. I take things too seriously
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@ourlot (982)
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20 Oct 17
I don't care much about it. After all, when you see an ET it's also not a real ET. Nor are murderers real murderers and so on. We have to suspend our disbelief for a moment when watching. Otherwise, we won't be able to enjoy it.
@Friendlypink (3805)
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29 Sep 17
Its just fine with me atleast they have interest in stories and script originated from other countries and that they fine time to srudy it and know practice it for a good play. Right?
@SerenityEngel (525)
• United Kingdom
29 Sep 17
It's about believably for me. If I can clearly hear the actor is not the nationality they are pretending to be, I can't take the play seriously. I need to be able to believe they are the character they are playing.
@Hannihar (130213)
• Israel
29 Sep 17
I need to make a comment here. Gregory Peck played an journalist posing as a Jew in a movie about antin-Semitism and I thought he did a fantastic job. People that play these roles that they are not need to do plenty of research on the character and know what they need to know, if not they will just appear like they are not really into the role they are suppose to be playing.
@Craigba (40)
• Kempton Park, South Africa
11 Jun 18
Tell me about it - South African accents are very difficult to pull off. I found it quite funny that in the movie "Stander" with Thomas Jane, the South African actress (Tess Jubber) had a better American accent than Thomas Jane had a South African one :)
