why couldn't he do a flat American accent?
like Ewan McGregor?
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He wasn’t a very talented actor.
shareActually, he was a very good actor, within his range!
But his range didn't include accents. Like in "Highlander", where he was supposed to play a Spanish Lord who'd come to Scotland to train a Scottish immortal guy, and Connery had a Scots accent instead of a Spanish one and the supposedly Scots guy had a French accent. Fun movie, if impossible to take seriously.
A Spanish Lord who was originally an ancient Egyptian.
shareGot any explanation for the Scotsman with the French accent?
Maybe he spent too much time with the Norman ruling class of Britain. French was their official language for law, royal court stuff, etc. They were in Scotland, too. Robert the Bruce and his brother Edward were part Norman, and their upbringing included the culture and language.
Or maybe incongruous accents are actually this weird speech condition that immortals are born with.
I like your last explanation the best.
Didn't the guy who played the Scots Highlander in the TV show use an American accent?
Not quite. The actor Adrian Paul is English. For the Duncan MacLeod role, he made this accent that was vaguely European but hard to place, like someone who had been wandering everywhere for a long, long time. In the flashbacks to his early days in Scotland, he used a more stereotypical Scottish accent.
shareHuh. Plausible accents really do take the fun out of that story.
share"Good with accents" and "talented actor" aren't the same thing.
shareWhy did he have to.
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