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All British Cast Playing Americans


I saw the film a couple of days ago and for the budget they shot it on I thought this was a pretty decent action flick.

However I found it a bit strange that the non French member's of the cast were all Brits playing Americans (Elba, Richard Madden, Kelly Reilly & Anatol Yusuef).

I get that they were probably trying to appeal to an American audience but all of those actors would have been known in the US anyway, Elba (The Wire) Madden (GOT) Reilly (True Detective) Yusef (BE).

They should have at the very least just made Elba or Madden's character British or perhaps just cast a real American instead of Madden.

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I thought the same

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