Fiennes' American accent?

You must see The Constant Gardener, Fiennes's best performance since The English Patient. He has also played in one of the Harry Potter blockbusters, and starred in Spider, a great small-budget independent movie about a mentally-challenged man institutionalized for most of his life. His career has had peaks and valleys, but this is true for most great actors whether they are stars or not.

Ralph's career is not over by a longshot. He'll still be around at age fifty, and by then he'll have much to tell his kids. He is one of the few people in show business to have starred in more than one Best Picture winner: The English Patient and Schindler's List. Tom Hanks has only been in one: Forrest Gump; and Harrison Ford, Brad Pitt, and Jim Carrey have never been in a single one! Tom Cruise, Leonardo DeCaprio and Anthony Hopkins have each been in one: Rain Man, Titanic, and The Silence of the Lambs. Jack Nicholson has starred in two: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Terms of Endearment. And Fiennes's own contemporaries Daniel Day-Lewis and Hugh Grant have both starred in Oscar nominated films, but none has won the Best Picture Prize. Day-Lewis, however, is still the youngest British actor to have been honored with the Best Actor Award.

In my opinion, Ralph has been robbed of several golden statuettes, but he rarely makes a misstep, and nine times out of ten has played his cards right. He is a brilliant dramatic actor who can, with chameleon-like instinct, play scheming villains, murderous madmen, deranged mental cases, sympathetic anti-heroes, and heroic, romantic leading-man parts in epic dramas with the best of them. He is only a few years older than the new James Bond Daniel Craig, whom I am afraid, will be typecast in ways that the debonair Pearce Brosnan has not. Fiennes himself was once tipped to play Bond before Brosnan landed the role, but thank God he turned off the producers by wanting to play Bond as more mercenary than the character already was. They chose Brosnan instead, Fiennes went on to a great career, and guess what? Craig is now portraying 007 in a manner that Fiennes first suggested in early 1994.

Romantic comedy is not his forte, and he should not have been cast in this film, but the Cinderella storyline was too much to resist for most of the people who watched this movie, even if this screenplay was not worthy of the talents of either Fiennes or Miss Lopez. But if you were casting a modern-day Prince Charming, of course the first person you would think of would be Ralph Fiennes.

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What Laura-myles said. And by the way it's Ralph, not Ray.

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