David Tennant - USA Film and TV roles.

Got word from US industry friend working for Warner Bros. that Tennant is being lined-up for roles in a major film (hints given that it could be the third BATMAN movie, playing Riddler) and a guest-starring role in ER - as a Doctor!

Could be just speculation or true, but he is in demand.

$200,000 for a single episode of ER? Bye bye TARDIS!

Who wouldn't.
Last edited by Dojjen : 27-04-2007 at 08:31

He would make a good riddler.

Guest stars don't get that much. That's only the regular senior cast. Still, if they do cast him, will we be subjected to another bloody awful and insulting 'posh' English accent that all Americans think we have?

I would imagine the number of Americans who think all Brits have a "posh" accent is smaller than the number of Brits who think all Americans think all Brits have a posh accent, judging by DS forum members.

Heck, Neela on ER doesn't have a posh accent, and she is only the second British character to be a regular on ER.

good luck to the man if does decide to try his luck Stateside once he finishes Who.

Well, she doesn't sound like she's from the Midlands anymore...I'm just afraid of a repeat of that terrible Scottish trying to be very, very English character of Desperate Housewives.

RUBBISH!

Virtually all USA people equate English accents with Higher Class and therefore baddies. Just look at the casting of big films over he last 50 years...

Or he could speak using his actual Scottish accent - the Scottish accent like the Irish seems to have a 'classless' appeal.

Ewan McGregor used his Scottish accent when he made a guest appearance in ER years ago

God, you don't know what you are talking about on a number of levels:

(1). Upper class British accents do not mean somebody is a "baddy," either in reality or in American films. Obviously there have been some prominent film villains with upper class British accents, but there have been many sympathetic characters with that accent too.

(2). Trying to determine what real people in America think from the "casting of big films" is inherently stupid. Hollywood is about fantasy, not reality.

(3). Plenty of British characters in American films don't have upper class accents, but I grant that the British upper class accent is "over-represented" in US films and TV compared to how prevalent it is in the real world of Britain, simply because...

(4). Americans LIKE upper class British accents, both because they sound pleasant and sophisticated to the American ear, AND because they are easier for Americans to understand than working class and regional British accents. When Americans are making films for primarily American audiences, it is just sheer practicality to have any British characters speaking in an accent that doesn't make Americans ask "What the hell did that guy just say?"

^ sheer folly...

most americans can not tell the difference between scottish and scouser - they do not have trained ears to discern different accents - they simply hear an english accent which they equate with upper class as it sounds nicer thsn an american drawl...

You could say much the same about Brits listening to various American accents which is why a lot of American characters in British tv show tend to have either a southern or New York accent

I have no idea what "scouser" means, and nobody else in North America born in North America probably does either. But you don't seem to be any better informed about English on the other side of the Atlantic, otherwise you would know that there is no such thing as an "American drawl." "Drawl" is a term linguists reserve for the U.S. Southern accent and offshoots like the "Texas drawl." Americans cannot identify regional British accents anymore than you seem to be able to identify American regional accents, but they bloody well know the difference between upper class and working class British accents. Or to put it in terms you would understand, since you seem to think movies reflect reality, any American can tell there is a significant difference between the British accents Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke's characters use in the movie Mary Poppins, and some of them even know that Van Dyke's Cockney accent was pretty crap. And nobody in America thinks that every Brit talks like the Queen, as your first post in this thread suggests you believe. Really, I suppose next your going to say something like you think that every American thinks every man in Britain wears a bowler hat.

And suddenly we are all experts on Americans ?

Sorry, I know this is the wrong platform for this, but it does annoy me.

My Wife is American and loves living over here. Believe it or not, she doesn't have 2 heads, doesn't chew gum, doesn't carry a gun, didn't vote for Bush and wasn't personally responsible for the war in Iraq etc. etc.

She can discern different accents, she can tell Brummie from Scouser from Scot from Geordie, she can't always tell what part of the country it is from of course but I know an awful lot of English who can't !

For all that she loves being here she does get pretty upset about the nonsense she has to put up with every time she opens her mouth. She has even started telling people that she comes from Canada in order to get round it and yes, nobody seems to be able to distinquish between the Canadian and American accent in this country !

Sorry - rant over !

My father once told me that he had worked with Scots and Geordies but found the Scots easier to understand

It's a term used for someone from the city of Liverpool. I believe it derives from a type of stew/soup native to the area.

1) There is NO difference between Candadian and American axcents.

2) People in this country still feel very close to Canada becuase of their role in the Empire.

3) Your wife has expericece of living in England - 99.9% of Americans do not and only know anything about Britain from what they see on their TV screens.

So you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between someone from Quebec and someone from New York?

^ Somneone from Quebec has a French acxent.

A French-Canadian accent

^ No - A French accent.

If you have a voice that has a French acxcent then you have a Frecnh acxent. Just cos you live in a Caanada then you cant suddenly have a French - Canafadain accent.

Those Asians who live in Burnley and have a Pakistani accent don't suddenly have a Brito-Pakistano accent just cos they live in Oldham...?!

A few years ago a friend of mine married a Russian woman who already had a 7 year old son. He's now about 18 and his accent is a strange mix of Russian and Norfolk

Does "The Man with the Big Glasses" still do the entertainment at the Kessingland Fun Camp?

And your perception of Americans does not arise from the TV screen ?

How many Americans have you spoken to on your travels to The States ?

I am in the fortunate position being able to visit (Wife's) family there. Off the tourist track and mixing with American's in 'their natural habitat'.

You would be amazed at just how much they do know about us and the wider World at large.

Of course, there will be a large proportion of the population whose only knowledge of the World is gleaned from their TV screen - but surely you can say the same thing about a large proportion of the population of this country and their view about America ?

Kenny Cantor?? I think he does. Mind you "Kessingland" and "Fun" aren't two words that I would normally put next to each other