The last film you watched....

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In fact, since Ben Hur or maybe Cleopatra (50 years ago), I've noticed a tendency to cast folks with English accents as Romans and those with American accents as Jews, Gauls, Barbarians, etc. Even Star Wars seemed to lean toward British Imperials and American rebels. (Of course, there is a precedent. :lol: )

You don't think it's been ethnic profiling? :wink:

I don't either. It just helps the viewer sort the sides.

Agreed! I've noticed that too...British actors usually play Romans and Americans usually play the parts opposite the Romans. It'll be interesting to see a movie with an American playing a Roman. The last time I saw an American playing a Roman without affecting a British accent, it was in the mini-series A.D., Anno Domini. Excellent, by the way. I remember everyone else was speaking with British accents and then along comes the American actor Jack Warden, who was playing Nerva. Jack Warden's accent sounded so funny, so out of place, I admit it, I laughed. I think I, too, have been taken in by the ethnic profiling prevalent in movies about Rome... and in Star Wars.... :lol: