I love me some Denzel, but his masterful acting skills cannot erase his vernacular and no amount of adoration can make it fit for a film depicting ancient Rome.
"What accent is he supposed to have? Are you going to make Denzel Washington do a goofy-ass British accent to seem noble? Or are you going to let him be his noble-ass self?"
This debate about whether it's OK to play ancient historical figures with an American accent instead of a posh English one highlights how longstanding conventions around accents persist in movies even when they defy logic.
"The Roman citizen body had people who came from an enormous number of different places - tons of Africans, tons of Greeks, and tons of Gauls."
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