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Always wondering: why does Hollywood cast actors for German-speaking roles who have an abominable pronunciation (e.g. Denis O'Hare in "True Blood" - esp. in direct comparison to the excellent German of Alexander Skarsgård)?
- March 20, 2013
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2. jaybird3rd
  
  The intended audience probably isn't sensitive enough to the differences between good and bad German accents for them to care.
  
  (French accents are a different story: unlike any other bad accent, a bad French accent is funny. I blame Inspector Clouseau.)
  
  March 20, 2013
3. wood_jl
  
  Because Hollywood makes garbage now. In a society satiated with "reality" shows, why pay for quality?
  
  March 21, 2013
4. Thorsten Günther
  
  @Master Phruby: e.g. Christopher Lee's German is quite good (he dubbed himself for the German language version of "The Last Unicorn").
  
  @wood_jl: In older Hollywood movies the German is even worse (e.g. Alan Rickman in "Die Hard"), but one would think they considered the worldwide distribution of movies and TV series by now.
  
  And I fear it's the same issue with any other language, as if there were no German/French/Russian/Spanish/etc. speaking actors available...
  
  March 21, 2013