and everyone playing a Scottish character can’t do a Scottish accent
Connery played a character who was born in Egypt and most recently had adopted the persona of a Spaniard.
a dude playing a dude dressed up as a dude disguised as another dude!
Who you calling “you people”?
What do you mean by “you people”?
Was Optimus Prime busy with a different project at the time?
Everyone in the comments is getting so bent out of shape over “They cast THIS guy, to play THIS role, but he’s clearly not that thing!”
But nobody is bringing up the fact that for the past 10 years they’ve cast Jimmy Fallon as a comedian…
And they couldn’t find an actor of Russian ancestry to play the Kurgan… but they did have an actor of Russian ancestry play another famous fantasy Spaniard swordsman—Inigo Montoya—a year later. And they cast Connery as a Russian in The Hunt for Red October a few years after that. (And meanwhile, the actor of Spanish ancestry who would have been appropriate for the role of Ramirez in Highlander—Ricardo Montalban—was cast as a man of Indian/Sikh ancestry in The Wrath of Khan.)
I don’t think casting actors of appropriate ethnicities for their roles became a big factor in Hollywood until the 90s.
Connery, Montalban, and Patinkin all did great in their roles, though.
“I’m not Spanish, I’m Egyptian…”
And they cast a French-American as a Scott. And an American as a Russian.
They were all over the place with that cast. But yes, Sean Cover as a Spaniard has to be the pick if the bunch.
Still a great movie though. Let’s just not even talk about the sequel movies!
I first watched this as an adult in the 2010s, made a reddit thread about how it kinda sucks, and I guess it hit google cause I’d get new messages every few months on that thread
Dude, you’re supposed to watch the movie high
Didn’t he already do that in Highlander? Although TBF it wasn’t pretty.
