Plot twist: they now get Ukrainian actor to act as russian spy.
Really any eastern european will work. It's not like we americans usually know what foreign language is being spoken.
Yeah, really. Peter Stormare has been playing Russian villains for decades and he's Swedish.
Any European really, Sean Connery might be dead but his memory lives on.
The supposedly russian bad guys are mostly not actually russian. Mostly they are some variety of native Germanic speaking actors. If the casting department is going for authenticity, it may be someone speaking the wrong branch of Slavic.
Plus it's easier to find huge, intimidating guys that way
Putin did it all to keep that Hollywood goon money coming
Half of the actors playing Russian/eastern European villains are German or Swedish or something, and another quarter are British/American/Australian/Irish actors with varying quality of dialect coaching.
As if Hollywood hasn't been completely monopolized and enshittified to the point that they no longer seem capable of making anything worth watching.
Fuck David Zaslav for leading the enshittification charge in this particular economic sector, by the way. Plastic faced, greedy ass, anti-union, anti-creative fancy lad ghoul.
Plot twist: they now get Ukrainian actor to act as russian spy.
Really any eastern european will work. It's not like we americans usually know what foreign language is being spoken.
Yeah, really. Peter Stormare has been playing Russian villains for decades and he's Swedish.
Any European really, Sean Connery might be dead but his memory lives on.