"The Wire" on HBO

i don't see how it can be avoided

yeah, maybe I would like these books better if they were audiobooks voiced by actors from the wire

the fakeness of it is usually distracting to me

sort of inherent fakeness though

damn totally disappointed to find out the mcnulty actor was british :(

why

don't tell him about the stringer actor

i think i was disappointed too iirc just cause the dude seemed like this archetypical american badass and to find out he was the creation of a brit makes him seem even more fictional and further removed from the reality you'd hope a real mcnulty-on-his-good-days style dude might inhabit

aw i don't really see why that would make you like the character less, it's acting

mcnulty was always one of the cornier/more obviously written characters for me anyway so :-/

oh, here, i knew i read this somewhere - from the new york times..
"Wherever I go the real hard-core dudes come up to me and confide in me," said Mr. Elba, who over the years has been approached by dozens of drug dealers identifying with Stringer. "I almost feel guilty turning around and saying: 'Hello, mate. My name's Idris and I'm from London.'" Mr. Elba burst into an exaggerated version of his cockney accent. "I don't want to break the illusion."

― dar1a g (daria g), Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:05 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark

lol

fuck, stringer too?

carcetti's Irish, right?
Bunk is from Japan iirc.

"idris elba" ;__________;

what do you have against brits

rewatching it recently, mcnulty stood out as a brit ... but Stringer, even though I knew he was British, I didn't really think about it too much.

yeah once you know mcnulty is welsh(right?) it's impossible to ignore, his accent slips. idris less so

think he's from sheffield... but he went to eton!

like the dude in band of brothers

david schwimmer

and to find out he was the creation of a brit

pretty sure an american writer created mcnutty

brits > americans so it's not even a big deal

Some of these characters are played by actors! Totally ruinz the show for me. (FYI Lester Freamon is almost a Brit.)

newsflash Omar is not really gay

Marlo is white.

Herc is a chick

Daniels is a praying mantis

SAWYER IS A MOTHERFUCKING HORSE

lmao @ "brits > americans"

how did you find out mcnulty was british? listening to his accent in season 1, episode 1?

no, i was watching the special features of the season 4 dvd. i lent season 1 to a friend, i'll have to see if i can pick up on it when i rewatch (or in season 5, which i haven't seen)

you're saying it slips in the pilot?

once you know he's a brit it becomes pretty obvious. not so with idris elba -- well, i say that, but im a brit, so there are all sorts of non-americans i buy as americans.

mind you i think hugh laurie's american accent is terrible.

yeah mcnulty is really obvious but stringer sounds almost like a real black american. not one from baltimore though.

yeah now that i think of it mcnutty's gruffy vioce kinda reminds me of house's, which is kinda obvious. string was definitely more surprising

thought joseph fiennes was so effing bad in flashforward i didn't watch past episode one

oh House is much better at his accent than McNulty

they all have so much trouble with "R"s even stringer

Something I've often wondered - when you get plummy English characters in US shows, normally butlers and suchlike - are they Americans doing the worst English accents of all time, or are they English journeymen actors hamming it up? And do they sound authentic to US ears? (not the guy from Fresh Prince, he's good)

I think usually the latter, with unusual exceptions (Wesley and Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, who were convincing). Feels like we've been getting more British and Australian actors posing as Americans in lead roles every year, so I don't think there's a shortage of foreign actors here.

House's accent is terrible though, really.

spike?!

this is the worst, but it's not that much of an outlier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg_3ZSeHL4g

according to wiki, lester freamon is currently in (unbelievably shit uk hospital soap) 'holby city'!?!

yes, i've seen it with my own eyes.

Clarke Peters has lived in London since the '70s.

bunk is swedish

Snoop's hair look good... it look good, girl.

spike?!

yeah, i know!

u guys didn't know marsters was from california?

Dude even made it onto Torchwood! How many Americans actually make it onto the BBC and fake a British accent? (I actually have no idea)

yeah his "american accent" on torchwood was his real voice iirc