Connery played a character who was born in Egypt and most recently had adopted the persona of a Spaniard.
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a dude playing a dude dressed up as a dude disguised as another dude!
Who you calling “you people”?
What do you mean by "you people"?
He stole it from Highlander!
Was Optimus Prime busy with a different project at the time?
Everyone in the comments is getting so bent out of shape over "They cast THIS guy, to play THIS role, but he's clearly not that thing!"
But nobody is bringing up the fact that for the past 10 years they've cast Jimmy Fallon as a comedian.....
funny joke but also yeah valid point. its acting. people are playing pretend.
And they couldn’t find an actor of Russian ancestry to play the Kurgan... but they did have an actor of Russian ancestry play another famous fantasy Spaniard swordsman—Inigo Montoya—a year later. And they cast Connery as a Russian in The Hunt for Red October a few years after that. (And meanwhile, the actor of Spanish ancestry who would have been appropriate for the role of Ramirez in Highlander—Ricardo Montalban—was cast as a man of Indian/Sikh ancestry in The Wrath of Khan.)
I don’t think casting actors of appropriate ethnicities for their roles became a big factor in Hollywood until the 90s.
Connery, Montalban, and Patinkin all did great in their roles, though.
They used to cast actors of appropriate skill
They used to cast actors of appropriate ~~skill~~ nepotism
FTFY, they still do, but they used to as well.
Imagine your selling point being good at acting and not your nationality. Unbelievable. /s
"I'm not Spanish, I'm Egyptian..."
It's annoying how people don't understand he's not a Spaniard.
Nothing beats John Wayne as a Mongol.
Mickey Rooney as a "chinaman"?
go right ree
Louise Rainer (The Good Earth) and Katharine Hepburn (Dragon Seed) would like a word.
Me so sorry
Not so - fine gazelle!
Not so - fine gazelle!
I admit it. I have no idea what you're referencing there.
Also, I like how Mongols and American Indians have the exact same background music before an attack.
I feel like Hollywood was trolling with Connery's roles. They cast him as a fucking Russian sub commander with that accent!
Yet he nailed the role. They changed all of the Russian lines to English anyways, with a really creative method that hadn't been done before.
And before the switch, they showed him speaking Russian so the audience could realise what a good decision it was!
That movie holds up!
Hollywood movies rarely do accents right anyway.
Well it just wouldn't be the same if a guy wearing a tux came up to a woman and said "Ello' Gov'nah! Name is Bond. James Bond, it surely is!"
Dick Van Dyke for the next Bond?
It's as if any play is for a given audience, and we have to bridge the gap with our own imagination. Crazy, right? 😆
Mind, I'm not criticizing your point, I agree with it, Hollywood has never been great with accents, it just has to be "good enough", like watching a stage play and the props have to be "good enough".
I first watched this as an adult in the 2010s, made a reddit thread about how it kinda sucks, and I guess it hit google cause I'd get new messages every few months on that thread
And they cast a French-American as a Scott. And an American as a Russian.
They were all over the place with that cast. But yes, Sean Cover as a Spaniard has to be the pick if the bunch.
Still a great movie though. Let's just not even talk about the sequel movies!
There was only one film, don't know what you're talking about with sequels.
And if there were sequels, there was only one of them and it was Highlander 3
Dude, you're supposed to watch the movie high
And only on the land.
Craig Ferguson did a joke about that in his stand up. He was so excited to hear Sean Connery was going to do a movie with a focus in Scotland, lol.
Is there any movie where Sean Connery plays a Scotsman? 🤔
Bond is Scottish.
The Longest Day, IIRC, but it's a small part.
I've got some nostalgia for the movie since it's where my name came from but yeah, it's definitely shows the ahhh.... sensitivity of the time.
I'm not sure I follow? His character is Egyptian, he was immortal. Though I take OP's point, he couldn't really be Scottish since he had been alive long before Scotland existed, possibly before the Picts even.
Though I take OP's point
Do you though?
Have you ever actually watched the movie?
Paul Mooney would like a word.
Didn't he already do that in Highlander? Although TBF it wasn't pretty.