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And Jason Isaacs as Marshal Zhukov, with a Yorkshire accent because why not?
by dghf 4y ago
And 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...