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[funkychinaman]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=108456

So they're going to have the British actor play the American guy, and the American actor play the Russian guy?

[commando552]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=108456

So they're going to have the British actor play the American guy, and the American actor play the Russian guy?

Reminds me of Strike Back, where an American plays a Brit whilst an American is played by an Australian.

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by commando552

Reminds me of Strike Back, where an American plays a Brit whilst an American is played by an Australian.

Really? You usually only seen Brits playing Americans, and not the other way around. Is he any good at it?

[Evil Tim]

I picked up Call of Juarez: Gunslinger the other day, expecting it to be another bad game to schadenfreude my way through, and...It's actually really good, particularly for the price they're asking.

[funkychinaman]

http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/...ctID.260620700

For anyone interested, the MS store is offering GTA 5 for $60 with a $20 XBLA credit. (I don't know why they're still offering points, considering they killed off the points system last month.)

[Excalibur]

Money's been tight for me, so I'm just gonna rent it.

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by Excalibur

Money's been tight for me, so I'm just gonna rent it.

It could take weeks to finish a game like GTA 5. I usually just wait a few months and get games used from Gamefly. They're usually in great shape and come with unused codes.

[commando552]

Originally Posted by funkychinaman

Really? You usually only seen Brits playing Americans, and not the other way around. Is he any good at it?

I'm British and I didn't know he (Philip Winchester) was American before I read it, so I think so. The only thing I had seen him in before was Camelot, where he also played a Brit.

[funkychinaman]

Originally Posted by commando552

I'm British and I didn't know he (Philip Winchester) was American before I read it, so I think so. The only thing I had seen him in before was Camelot, where he also played a Brit.

His Wikipedia page says his mom was English and he moved to London after high school, so I guess that would explain how he could pull it off.

Some people take to it pretty quickly. I remember watching a documentary about Tornado pilots, and one of them was a US Navy pilot on an exchange program, and he already had some sort of hybrid American/English accent going.

[MT2008]

Originally Posted by commando552

I'm British and I didn't know he (Philip Winchester) was American before I read it, so I think so. The only thing I had seen him in before was Camelot, where he also played a Brit.

Watch any of his interview videos that are posted on Strike Back's Facebook page. You can hear him speaking in his native American accent. Watch this one, for example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNSmNbM6IhM

Another bit of trivia: His first acting role (when he was 17) was as a militiaman in the Steven Seagal movie "The Patriot".