#6

What if every actor from North Yorkshire doesn’t want to be in “Ba Ba Balonz - The Musical” or whatever it is you’re making? Does that region just not exist anymore?

#7

Either a rewrite or the film gets binned off

#8

Dick Van Dyke!

Proposal rejected.

#9

I think actors should only do one role ever. That way you avoid someone like De Niro being De Niro in every film rather than the character.

Choose wisely.

#10

What about period pieces where we’re not sure how people talked back then.

Just fuck them off?

Or reanimate corpses?

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#11

He’s dead* so it doesn’t affect him.

*well not quite yet

#12

I don’t know, there’s great joy to be had in actors doing terrible accents (as long as it’s condensed into a short Youtube video, and you don’t have to watch the whole film)…

#13

Would you accept it if we used an actor from the South playing the part of someone from North Yorkshire, and then we dubbed their voice over with a North Yorkshire accent? Sort of like the opposite of the whole Darth Vader thing.

#14

I’d be fucking delighted.

#15

Fuck them off

#16

What about alien languages like in Star Wars?

#17

We’ll need to widen our search of the galaxy for new acting talent.

#18

Well, I’ve had my doubts about this but you’ve soundly squashed my fears. A grand and noble idea.

I’ll set up the e-petition and we’ll crack this off to parliament.

#19

He’s in the new Mary Poppins, due next year.

#20

If this means more roles for the guy who plays Marlon Dingle, I’m all for it

#21

Just get gary oldman in every time you need an accent doing

#22

Would like to expand this to singers too. Why do non-US singers adopt an American accent to sing with, if it’s not how they speak?

Timely and relevant example: big hair man from Hundred Reasons sings ‘festerr’ /'fεːstəɹ/ rather than ‘faster’. He is from Surrey: this is unacceptable.

Normal hair man from Hell Is For Heroes sings ‘faster’ /'fɑːstə/, like a person from London where he is from. This is correct.

Although: on HR’s third allbum, there was a song called ‘The Chance’, which hair man sang as ‘chance’ /tʃɑːns/ rather than ‘chence’ /tʃεːns/ as he had on earlier records. Presumably this was him going back to his roots, Rocky-style, with pronunciation.

I got the feeling that a lot of singers from SW London (shout out The Peel/Gravity DIP) were putting on an accent because they felt they had to, and were singing worse as a result.

#23

Can actors talk in films in a language that’s not their mother language?

#25

Not sure that I agree with you that actors should only play characters with the same skin colour.

Doesn’t sound like a good way to break down barriers or to offer fresh takes on material, tbh.

#26

Would we have got the mid 00’s secondary school history classic that is the geordie nazis though?

I very much doubt it.