Forest Whitaker- Terrible casting.

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malkycombat — 12 years ago(February 21, 2014 01:02 PM)

What on earth were the producers thinking putting an American in a role as a British soldier. He clearly has nothing but an American accent. I usually love his acting especially in "The Last King of Scotland", but this was not really good was it.
Oh and Captain_Augustus_McCrae shut up you wanka

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Vondaz — 11 years ago(April 14, 2014 01:30 AM)

That's interesting to know, because, like the OP, I hated FW in this movie and it ruined my enjoyment. And it wasn't just his accent, his bowling action was awful too

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TyLee896 — 11 years ago(September 01, 2014 07:48 AM)

Troll

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skyblazeeterno — 11 years ago(April 23, 2014 12:24 AM)

For me the worst aspect about the casting was that Forest looked very out of shape and it was really hard for him to be believable as a soldier

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mam13143 — 11 years ago(August 18, 2014 05:49 PM)

Did not look or act the part. Very poor casting.

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TyLee896 — 11 years ago(September 01, 2014 07:47 AM)

Yes he did and no it wasn't.

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TyLee896 — 11 years ago(September 01, 2014 07:48 AM)

Really? That's funny because I know a lot of out of shape soldiers.

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trayvon_brown — 9 years ago(September 19, 2016 10:29 AM)

no you dont

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Tenarife60 — 7 years ago(May 24, 2018 12:00 AM)

That's interesting because I have the DVD and on the extras that was talked about. I think it was the studio, or financiers, who told Neil Jordan they didn't want an American and Forest was too hefty, obese to be playing a soldier, but they went with him anyway.

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bigbadwolf666 — 7 years ago(May 26, 2018 07:09 AM)

Contrary to others I really liked Forest in this role. Very memorable.
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TyLee896 — 11 years ago(September 01, 2014 07:46 AM)

Are you retarded? FW was phenomenal! I couldn't even tell that he was American at first. Obvious troll is obvious.

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holdek01 — 11 years ago(September 02, 2014 09:04 PM)

Okay, we get that you disagree with the OP about the casting, so just shut up already with the "troll" talk.

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jjin-66612 — 10 years ago(November 15, 2015 08:26 AM)

I'm from Totenham and I've never heard that accent but then again he did say he was born (can't quite remember where) abroad so that could account for it.

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ccr1633 — 9 years ago(August 10, 2016 10:52 PM)

I'm from Totenham and I've never heard that accent but then again he did say he was born (can't quite remember where) abroad so that could account for it.
Yes, he was born abroad, unlike his girlfriend.

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SueBee55 — 10 years ago(November 16, 2015 10:41 AM)

Maybe they cast FW in order to secure US financing. I thought his accent was quite good and he was believable as a soldier.

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Jonathan62 — 10 years ago(November 29, 2015 09:48 AM)

Yeah, I thought it was a little odd. The accent seemed spasmodically decent, but I found it hard to accept that he was playing a British soldier. Maybe that's just in retrospect after seeing quite a few films in which he plays an American, though.

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cheapfrill — 10 years ago(February 09, 2016 09:09 AM)

Well I just didn't buy Dil so obsessed w/ an overwt., one eyed, black American.

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SterlingArcher — 10 years ago(March 24, 2016 10:12 AM)

I found his 'accent' distracting.
At one point it went from chimney sweep Cockney to Australian, South African and then back again. In one bloody scene!
I've also never seen a squaddie with moobs.

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Midgegirl — 9 years ago(April 25, 2016 02:38 PM)

His accent's as good as Miranda Richardson's.