42 posts tagged “celebrity”
Carrying on from a post that Jaklumen made on his blog, I went to look for the Lucy Lawless-headed Greenpeace campaign to reduce emissions. This is Lucy Lawless as Lucy Lawless, and her accent has changed a great deal since I saw her in the Shark in the Park episode ‘Double or Quits’. It has Americanized slightly, which is no surprise since she is married to an American and has a home in LA.
During a quiet moment at work, I put these on. A small tribute to Dennis Waterman, his starring roles, and his singing the ‘feem toon’.
Here was Saturday’s newspaper:
When I think about it, many actors are not from the places we think. For example, I just blogged that Sienna Miller was born in New York. Here are some actors grouped by their birthplaces, some of which go against the public’s expectations. Try these out on a pub night quiz.
USA
Mel Gibson
Nicole Kidman
Bruce Lee
Sienna Miller
Sidney Poitier
Canada
Pamela Anderson
Anna Paquin
México
Anthony Quinn
Cuba
Daisy Fuentes
Andy Garcia
Northern Ireland
Sam Neill
Scotland
David McCallum
David Niven
England
Kim Cattrall
Bob Hope
Bruno Lawrence
Wales
Christian Bale
France
Emma Watson
Belgium
Audrey Hepburn
Germany
Martin Lawrence
Bruce Willis
Poland
Billy Wilder
Italy
Amy Adams
Greece
Tommy Lee
Lebanon
Keanu Reeves
Oman
Isla Fisher
Ukraine
Milla Jovovich
Mila Kunis
India
Michael Bates
Vivien Leigh
Spike Milligan
China
Toshiro Mifune
Japan
Joan Fontaine
Olivia de Havilland
Australia
Keisha Castle-Hughes
On the other hand, Holly Valance, whom Wikipedia lists as New Zealand-born, was indeed born in Australia as one would expect, according to her own MySpace page. It is one of many long-standing, amateur-night Wikipedia errors that have propagated through the internet, but it is fiction.
This is quite rare: Kim Cattrall with her Scouse accent (she’s from Widnes) on The Paul O’Grady Show:
How about Karl Urban (and yes, he pronounces his surname the way we all did at school) talking about Star Trek, in his Kiwi accent?
Finally, Sandra Bullock, whose mother was German, accepting an award in Germany:
I knew Kevin Spacey is a very good actor, but I had no idea he is a brilliant impressionist. I loved his Johnny Carson.
Found on Andrew Lau’s Facebook page, a video with Martin Yan (甄文達), probably the most famous guy in my whanau. Martin and I were both interviewed a few years ago for a book on our clan.
This is the only interview I could find on YouTube with Charlize Theron speaking Afrikaans; the interviewer is speaking Belgian Flemish, I believe. At least they understand each other.
Even the French know it doesn’t make sense, but they can sit back and go, ‘Ha! We have fooled the Anglo-Saxons and Americans again! Now we can claim to be exotic and culturally superior and put this down to French “mystique”!’
I am sure the idea is that Schweppes is better than a snog.
This is like the TV ad for Homer Simpson’s Mr Plow business that McMahon & Tate dreamed up. Lisa asks, ‘Was that your ad, Dad?’
‘I … don’t … know!’
[Cross-posted from Lucire] Renault has launched a campaign for the Laguna 3 with former Manchester
United football player Eric Cantona, using humour and targeting the
internet as well as conventional media.
Called Le rencontre (The Encounter), the commercial is irreverent but manages to show the Laguna in a quality light. (Continued at Lucire.)
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