Anybody know why Roth played his character with a British accent? Hanussen was a Czech Jew pretending to be Danish, according to wikipedia. No way he'd have a perfect British accent...
PS: I haven't seen the whole movie.
Well, everyone in the film spoke English even though it is fairly certain they'd all be speaking German. So, since Roth's natural accent is British I think Herzog may have allowed him to use his original accent in order to elicit the best performance from him he could without some weird Czech-Danish-German twang.
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I agree. Also, considering the international cast, everyone spoke with their own accents. Tim Roth's English, Jouko Ahola is Finnish and spoke English with a Finnish accent. And so on.
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What would it add though?
I really dislike making actors speak with an accent, when the character isn't suppose to english speaking.
There's that russian submarine movie, K-19 with harrison ford. He speaks with a russian accent, it's so cheesy and stupid. It seems more like a joke.
Cheesy and stupid describes at least eighty-five percent of Harrison Ford's roles.
shareBecause he is British?
He is born in London. And since they didn't do the movie in German (which the characters would have spoken IRL), they might as well use their own accents.
Very good question OP, but I agree that it wouldn't really matter since everyone spoke English.
shareTim Roth is too cool to lose is British accent.
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