Why is he talking like an exaggerated film noir character? Very strange accent and inflections.
shareHe sounds like Pierce Brosnan doing James Bond
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Hit the nail on the head.
It's that man again!!
He is called Callum Ferguson,assume he is meant to be Scottish? or Northern Irish?
shareI'm hoping that Callum's delivery and intonation is not unintentional and there may be a bona fide plot reason for his faked up voicing / over-acting. Apologies due if not!
Apart from the interesting Alfred Molina mansion scene in part two I'm not yet feeling the usual Poliakoff's magic as I have on previous works. Hope it all coalesces over the span of the six parts and then draws me in more fully.
My God it's full of stars...
Yes, Cal's accent reminded me of Pierce Brosnan's, but he hasn't the charm. I'm finding him very bland and colourless - I'm not sure if this was intentional? He looks a bit like George Osborne, until recently Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer. He seems to spend a lot of time with his head inclined to his left, which can be a bit distracting.
The series has not impressed professional reviewers and already it's become plodding. After two episodes all I'm interested in is why Cal's team is eavesdropping on him and his bedroom antics.
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His voice and acting is very odd? maybe he is trying to hard. He doesn't come across as being believable to me. I am enjoying the show but it could have been so much better with a stronger leading man. Benedict Cumberbatch would have been perfect. Or even someone charismatic like Richard Armitage.
shareI was trying to pin down the accent/who he reminded me of the other day and came up with James Mason...
"Wait till they get a load of me!"
I'm guessing by the hints that have been dropped, that he's trying to speak with an accent that isn't original for him.
Several shorthand moments in the script have informed us that 1)Callum's working class because 2) he's a "scholarship boy" as his best friend called out to Rachel. That pegs him as "not one of us" according to his rich friend.
And so we know he's always lived with that lifelong moniker "scholarship BOY" around his neck that he had to endure since probably grammar and 3) he went to Oxford on scholarship, too, so nobody there back then would have ever really let him "fit in."
So, he's decided/had to work on getting shot of his working class accent maybe from part of the less salubrious parts of London of his youth.
That might give him an odd cadence and intonation when he never really got the accent "right."
I think it may be part of his character's back story that he's showing us. It might also be showing us through these short hand back story things that he isn't "officer class" and also might have had issues with the British heirarchy--ergo ripe for spying on Britain himself as an "outsider." So, we don't know about him yet.
i would agree - I had a boyfriend who clearly wanted to hide his South London accent and he sounded just like that, which is probably why it didn't grate with me
shareIt's awful! Very off-putting. Ruins any believability in the drama. Makes him seem totally miscast!
shareI'd recorded all episodes and then sat down to watch them. After 20 minutes, I couldn't stand his way of speaking any more and stopped watching it. Then I deleted all episodes.
In fact, had I realised that Jim Sturgess was the main lead, then I would never have bothered. He's rubbish.
Jim Sturgess is awful, just awful. Poliakoff is the director, so the blame is entirely his. I've never seen Poliakoff this bad.
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