Casting "errors" in cinema

[Carnyx]

Movie : "Olé!" (...)

When a Spanish is played by a jewish Morrocan and his Spanish woman by an Italian (Valeria Golino).

Ramon Holgado (Gad Elmaleh) is a chauffeur and is very friendly with his rich boss (Gérard Depardieu)... But patatra, the boss is broken, fortunately, thanks to Ramon, he'll be wealthy again. Ahaha. Fin...



Post more examples of casting "errors" in movies.

[Errigal]

I can think of two cases of bad casting:

1)Paz Vega (from Seville) as a Mexican maid in “Spanglish”




2)Max von Sydow as “Simon” the Jewish Holocaust survivor in the otherwise good movie “Intacto”.

[svin]

Almost all Hollywood movies with "Russians" in them. 99% are played by Jewish immigrants. The other 1% by Southern Slavs (much better, of course, but still not by ethnic Russians).

[Errigal]

When Sean Connery played the submarine commander in "The Hunt for Red October" his "Russian" accent kept appearing and dissappearing. It was quite funny to listen to.

How about Oscar Homolka did he do a good job playing Russians?

[svin]

Originally Posted by A Few Acres of Snow

When Sean Connery played the submarine commander in "The Hunt for Red October" his "Russian" accent kept appearing and dissappearing. It was quite funny to listen to.

How about Oscar Homolka did he do a good job playing Russians?

"Homolka was one of a flood of Jewish actors and theatrical people who fled Europe for the U.S. with the rise to power of Adolf Hitler and Nazism."

Jewish.

Did not see any movies with him. He looks a bit like Brezhnev (who was not Russian too, hehe)

[svin]

Movie: Lord of War. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399295/

Ukrainians are played by Armenians:

Shake Tukhmanyan .... Irina Orlov
Jean-Pierre Nshanian .... Anatoly Orlov

LOL.

[Cirrus]

In the french movie La Vérité si je mens, the actor Richard Anconina (jewish) played a Goy, and José Garcia (catalan) and Bruno Solo (Lassalle - french) played north africans jews.

[Señor Malo]

OliverStone's Alexander with

Rosario Dawson as Roxanna


Angelina Jolie as Axe's mother Olympias


BTW for Oliver Stone should not make historical movies outside those about US history...He should leave that to better prepared directors such as Riddle Scot

[svin]

What's wrong with Jolie?

[Señor Malo]

Originally Posted by svin

What's wrong with Jolie?

from the personal and artistic point of view (as actress) nothing.
Just on the anthropological side I figured that she was not suitable for represent a macedonian queen from the ancient time (she's from a french mother and a Kambodgean faher, I think?)

[svin]

Her father Jonathan Voight does not look very Kambodgean.
In fact, he is Czech/English. That makes Jolie 1/4 Slavic.

[Cirrus]

Her father Jonathan Voight does not look very Kambodgean.

Rather progressive Kambodgean, IMO.

[Señor Malo]

Originally Posted by svin

Her father Jonathan Voight does not look very Kambodgean.
In fact, he is Czech/English. That makes Jolie 1/4 Slavic.

Ok... Now that you mention it, don't remember where did I get it that she was half cambodgian ...
I had just red once that the kambodgean governement offered her the kambodgean nationality...I don't know how then I got it be granted that she was half cambodgean and influenced by that, I surely found her an "exotic look" anywhere

[Erasmus]

Originally Posted by svin

Almost all Hollywood movies with "Russians" in them. 99% are played by Jewish immigrants. The other 1% by Southern Slavs (much better, of course, but still not by ethnic Russians).

Natalie Wood was from Russian ancestry, her real name was Natasha Nikolaevna Gurdin. Jack Palance is Ukranean.

P.S.: and Peter Ustinov?, I don't know if he was jew or a true russian(?)

[svin]

About Wood from Wiki:

Wood was born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko in San Francisco, California to Russian Orthodox immigrants, Nikolai and Maria Zakharenko. Her parents changed their surname to the less cumbersome Gurdin, and by the age of 4 she was billed as Natasha Gurdin.

According to her surname she is Ukrainian.

[Erasmus]

Originally Posted by svin

About Wood from Wiki:


According to her surname she is Ukrainian.

Thanks