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“The thick of it” is right up there. Less about the process and more about the bullying. It’s creator then created Veep.
by dadadad100 4y ago
“The thick of it” is right up there. Less about the process and more about the bullying. It’s creator then created Veep.
- ly3xqhl8g9 4y agoAnd in between Veep seasons made The Death of Stalin [1] in 2017: Steve Buscemi as Nikita Khrushchev is all I have to say. [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4686844/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- dghf 4y agoAnd Jason Isaacs as Marshal Zhukov, with a Yorkshire accent because why not?
- ly3xqhl8g9 4y agoThe accents were a brilliant move: instead of making them speak English with a Slavic accent, they use only heavy English accents as to demarcate and indicate the provenance of the speaker in the same manner as if they spoke actual Russian, Georgian, Ukrainian, and so forth. 'Director Iannucci explained the decision to Metro: “I felt Russian accents would just kill the comedy dead,” he said. “It makes the whole thing artificial. It makes you feel like you’re not there. And I want people to feel like they’re there.”' [1] [1] https://slate.com/culture/2018/03/in-praise-of-the-accents-in-the-death-of-stalin.html https://slate.com/culture/2018/03/in-praise-of-the-accents-i...