Because I thought maybe you couldn’t hear the affected accent Denzel had and thought it was American. Joaquin also had an affected accent. We don’t talk like that. Connie’s is Danish. There are several who have Irish accents. When I first saw the original, I thought the same as you only I thought too many people were British. No Italians. (In the manner of Suburra Blood on Rome.) But then I saw HBO Rome series and everyone was British and it all worked in that series. But that series was phenomenal. Everything worked. Why is a British accent the one to have in a Roman drama? Because of Shakespeare. And it’s not only that, most of the cast were speaking in such a manner that was so stilted and cadenced and breathy that even if it were Oliver Reed and Richard Harris, it was noticeably fabricated and interfered with the drama. Not to mention the script was rubbish as Crowe constantly mentioned.
Adam Driver was the only one I liked in The Last Duel. He looked like he should be there. Damon did not. I felt something similar to what you felt when I saw Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - everybody had some kind of Scandi accent except Daniel Craig. And that was British. I thought Denzel not only fit, he was the most compelling, certainly not the over-the-top Twins. You could actually say, and be correct, nobody fits in this thing because it all was so bad riding on the coattails of the first movie which like a thunderbolt you now realize was all because of Russell Crowe.
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