Here’s Why Hollywood Uses So Many British Actors

It seems hard to believe that the biggest actors in Hollywood nowadays are coming from Britain. Think about it. Henry Cavill and Christian Bale are both British actors but, they play America’s biggest superheroes Superman and Batman, respectively.

According to a new report by The Hollywood Reporter, more and more talent agents and casting directors are choosing British actors for American movies and acting roles.

But, it might come down to the fact that British actors are a lot more talented. In Britain, actors grow up learning Shakespeare, performing on theaters, and mastering different American dialects.

It’s about casting the role with the best person you can find, and in Britain, we grew up on Starsky & Hutch, Kojak and Hawaii Five-0; we grew up with American accents, so British actors are able to have those accents as opposed to American actors, who would only see a few British shows. In Britain, acting is very theater-based — they perform the character every night in front of a live audience, which as an exercise is very scary, but it builds up muscles in all the right places. [THR]

In addition, many of Hollywood’s bigggest actors attended some of the most elite and expensive acting schools in the world. The acting classes are so expensive, many actors have complained that acting has become a career only for the wealthy.

According the Herald of Scotland, James McAvoy suggests that if the current trend of rich-kid actors continue to take other aspiring acting jobs, then it would be “damaging for society”.

James McAvoy was a true definition of a “struggling actor”. McAvoy paid his way through drama school by working in a bakery but, now the actor suggests that privately educated actors are ruining the industry. McAvoy argues that everyone cannot get the same opportunities to work in the film industry.

With England’s huge supply of wealthy, experienced, and talented actors, expect casting directors to outsource acting jobs to England leaving America’s aspiring actors without a speaking role.

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‘Super Troopers 2’ reaches its $2 million crowdfunding goal in one day.

According to reports, Jay Chandresekhar revealed why he chose to crowdfund the project: “since we refused to write a sequel where the highway cops have morphed into super hero-vampires, Fox Searchlight proposed the following deal: they’ll release the film, but we have to raise all of the money.” And it only took them a single day.

In just over 24 hours, comedy group Broken Lizard raised the $2 million it needed to hit the gas on Super Troopers 2.

With its Indiegogo campaign just launched on Tuesday morning, Broken Lizard is assured to make at least a “bare bones” version of the film, according to the filmmakers. With 31 bonus days of fundraising still to go, they could put a lot of meat on those bones.

When Veronica Mars [my review] launched its Kickstarter campaign in 2013 the goal was also $2 million for a green light. The film hit that number in a matter of hours, on the way to a final total of $5.7 million. [Mashable]

The first ‘Super Troopers’ centered around five Vermont state troopers, avid pranksters with a knack for screwing up, try to save their jobs and out-do the local police department by solving a crime. The last Super Troopers movie was released nearly 15 years ago and it major success making $23 million in the box office. Film critic Roger Ebert awarded the film 2½ stars out of 4, saying “I can’t quite recommend it — it’s too patched together — but I almost can; it’s the kind of movie that makes you want to like it”.

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