My only Hot Take on Robert Pattinson as Batman is British actors get cast as too many classic American roles and characters. Amy Dunne, Superman, two Spider-Men, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King? The line has to be drawn somewhere.
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Yes I suppose Americans have snagged Sherlock Holmes, Margaret Thatcher, and "not not the UK" native Tyrion Lannister but still.
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"Hm who should we cast as Doctor Strange, American magician." "How about Benedict Cumberbatch?" "Doesn't he, uh, have a very famous, very British voice?" "It's ok he'll just do...that voice British actors apparently think Americans sound like." "Well he IS British so, ok done."
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I mean those are some really good actors and performances, it's not an individual criticism, but I do think there's some weird American cultural inferiority complex at work here.
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McNulty and Stringer are two of the most important characters in an American show with a specific region as the setting and even then
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Hugh Laurie almost made it to the Presidency!
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I missed the last couple seasons of House.
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