TMNT cast announced.....thoughts, opinions
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I grew up watching Chinese Garrett Wang play Korean Harry Kim on Star Trek Voyager, and Korean Linda Park play Japanese Hoshi Sato on Star Trek Enterprise.
I can't judge in that sense. If it works...
EDIT: For that matter, American LeVar Burton playing Somalian Geordi LaForge. Did you have any idea that character was supposed to be Somali? I just learned that last week!
What in the kunta kinte... He's Somali!?
Yeah, the character was born in Mogadishu.
It's just that Burton never bothered with the accent, unlike when Canadian James Doohan played the Scottish...Montgomery Scott.
At least Doohan tried. I mean yeah, Shrek sounds more Scottish.
Maybe it's Geordie's accent after the translator.
Heh, that theory. The one that says Picard is actually speaking French, but it sounds like Patrick Stewart after it's run through the universal translator.
The reality is, Stewart admits he can't do a French accent--he tried at a con once, it sounded real silly. I don't blame him.
I can blame him for the atrocious Star Trek Picard, though.