Why does Great Britain produce so many good actors?
Theatre culture, land of Shakespeare and their young actors grow up acting in dramas for THE BBC
Young actors in America train by doing shitty comedies on Nick TV or are recruited by how good looking they are right after high school when they are waitressing in Hollywood
UK Greatest Actor
>Spent years conquering the stage
>Goes into film and dominates straight away with little effort
>Doesn't care for award ceremonies
>Range from Shakespeare to childhood favourite character (so far)
US Greatest Actor
>Disney product
>Plays the same character each time
>WAH IM SCREAMING AND BREAKING MY VOICE IM SUCH A GOOD ACTOR
>Desperate for Awards GIB ME OSCAR PLS
America is just a meme.
Theatre without a doubt. Forces you to get gud. Have to remember lines, your mark etc and get it perfect first time night after night. Being a mouseketeer doesn't really compare
>>67928408
This, there is a huge culture of theatres here, we are fucking obsessed with it more than any other country on earth.
>>67929241
Surprisingly based post, wasn't expecting anyone to know of the best actor working today on /tv/
>>67929241
leo is american you dolt
>>67928106
Because they are the primary English speaking country that isn't America.
Americans overact even when they aren't acting. LOOK AT THIS HELEN they shout as tourists, while "admiring" something completely banal. Like children discovering something for the first time.
>>67929940
They overact in daily life.
"Hey wassup my man ?! How are you ?!"
>>67929980
While maintaining a fake smile to show their whitened teeth.
>>67929241
That's not US greatest actor tho
>>67929930
retard
>dissing America
>while using an american website
>on the american internet
Just be glad we don't curbstomp you. America is the most relevant and respected country on the planet. Go on, name me how many Americans have won Oscars and how many Ugly+Badteethians have won one.
I'll wait.
>>67930089
>America is the most relevant and respected country on the planet.
Relevant I agree, but respected? Far from it.
>>67930089
USA
USA
USA
>>67930089
Website owned by a Jap
Internet invented by britbongs
>>67930152
Also, using a computer, which is a Brit invention
>>67930152
both countries cucked by AMERICA
>>67930089
>We
Like you're going to get off your mobility scooter
>>67930042
Not even gay, but jake is a fucking dream boat.
>>67930195
Yeah I'd suck his dick in a heartbeat even though I'm not gay
Well this thread went downhill fast.
>>67930256
We are on 4chandubs
>>67930119
>make lego great again
Funny that a lot of Britain's best actors have at some stage appeared in a Mike Leigh film. He simply does not use bad actors.
>>67929874
Who is it?
>>67930631
Mark Rylance. He's only very recently started doing film stuff, but pretty much everyone in theatre calls him the best of his generation.
>>67930631
Mark Rylance. Also the BFG.
>>67930089
This is clearly coming from a someone with great national confidence and sense of self irony. A bit like how guys with huge dicks constantly assure others that they have a big dick.
>>67930797
>american
>self irony
no
>>67930042
Not arguing that he is great, but why is he better than
Daniel Defoe
Edward Norton
Matthew McConaughey
Christian Bale
Ryan Gosling
Daniel-Day Lewis
Kevin Spacey
Gary Oldman
just to name a few?
>>67931141
Half of those aren't Americans.
>>67929241
Day Lewis is irish though.
>>67931208
This is bait, right?
>>67931141
is this piss poor trolling or are you retarded?
is liam neeson british or irish?
>>67931274
irish
It's because all British actors are actually reptilians in disguise.
>>67931274
actually no, hes british.hes northern irish
>>67931274
Technically both
>>67931292
>>67931312
>>67931313
so both?
>>67929241
>US Greatest Actor as Leo
>not Brando, Bogart, DeNiro, Hanks, Stewart, Pacino, Newman, Norton, Chaplin, Hoffman or any of the actual greats
>but fucking Leo
>>67931274
British as he was born in the British Isles. Member of Great Britain and Northern Island due to being from Northern Island.
So, your definition, yes. And by technical.
>>67931367
>DeNiro
>actual greats
Sure, if he'd died 20 years ago.
>>67931363
People from Ireland are British. British Isles includes all the islands in this area. He is British by being a member of the political entity of Britain.
>>67931208
>Born and raised in England
>Irish
Oh, you must be one of those retarads that considers Americans with Irish great-great-great-great grandfathers Irish.
>>67931367
>who is Buster Keaton
>>67931398
>>67931372
Try and tell that to someone from The Republic of Ireland.
>>67931424
A Catholic irish man born in the caliphate is still a Catholic irish man.
>>67931447
The Republic is a part of the UK that broke away from it due to the UKs shittiness. People from there are still British.
>>67931544
No, they are not.
British means from the UK if you are talking anything other than genetics/languages.
>>67931544
Nope.
>>67931629
So the battle if trafalgar was led and won by an Irish man? Interesting.
>>67931600
I agree, but it's retarded that British doesn't refer to the British Isles. Though it's too late to change anyway.
>>67931768
Just like American doesn't refer to someone from the Americas. It's not that hard.
>>67930089
*kerbstomp
>>67931447
They are not the political definition of British. They are the literal definition of British.
Until Ireland gets the world to not recognise them as part of the British Isle,they are British. As they are members of the British Isle. Their haplogroup is also the same as 70% of UK.
>>67931600
They aren't in sense of nationality. Remember, Nationality is essentially what somebody says something is. Why is San Marino a country? Why is Andorra a country? Why am Bermudian despite Bermuda being part of Britain. It's an oversea territory. Therefore it is part of Britain. Yet I am unique if I am from Bermuda? Same goes with French and New Caledonian.
>>67930089
Fuck off americafag, of course we respect USA and most of their people. We are simply discussing actors from UK, over here. If you say that in 'murica there are more good actors than in UK, you are lying
>>67931889
This is one of the most confused posts I've ever seen.
The "haplogroup" bit is the most baffling, is this what happens when /pol/ tries to into genetics?
>>67931889
See
>>67931787
You seem to want the words to refer to different things than they do. That isn't enough to make it so.
>>67931997
But it does. Going "I'm American" can mean anything from Falklander to Canadian.
Just because it's accepted that the term "American" refers to the "United States of America citizen".
Once again, they are not British in the political sense. They are in a geological sense.
People DO say "I'm a North American" or "South American". Just like somebody can go "I'm from the Caribbean". But there are dozens of countries there. From Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, to Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Bermuda, Cayman Islands and so on.
>>67931950
They are the same haplogroup as large parts of the UK. They are not a distinct group of humans. They are the same. They are politically different due to a country that wasn't a country becoming a country due to leaving another country.
>>67931997
so what your saying is, if UK invaded Ireland now and annexed it, all those Irish people become British?
>>67932078
>Going "I'm American" can mean anything from Falklander to Canadian.
No it doesn't, which is why
>People DO say "I'm a North American" or "South American"
You just defeated your own (retarded) argument. What a term is accepted to mean is literally the definition. That is the definition of a definition (lel).
The use of "British" to refer to the ethnicity is so limited, if someone says "I'm British" and you choose to interpret it that way (and the topic is not strictly genetics), you are willfully misinterpreting them on purpose, or just don't know the use of the word.
>>67932111
And haplogroups are absolutely nothing to do with the term. Someone from Dublin is not the same as someone from Kilkenny.
>>67932175
Yet I've talked to people who purposely say they're North American so people don't know where they are from. I've had both American friends who used to do it to avoid "FUCKING AMERICA! ILLEGAL INVASION REEE" and people from Canada do it to sleep with chicks who thought they were American. It's funny.
>>67932136
Assuming Ireland was annexed as part of the UK then yeah they would be British citizens.
>>67932230
My point was, they're not I1, therefore are not some magically genetically different. They are the same as the majority of the political entity known as the UK.
>>67932240
...all of that supports what I just and and not what (presumably) you were saying? That's why we have terms like North American as opposed to American, because American being the official term for someone from the US, like British with the UK.
>>67932261
so, despite UK not being a country named Britain, but an conglomeration of multiple nations....there is no such thing as "British".
>>67932275
Jesus fuck you are retarded. What "they" are you even referring too? Those maps don't mean what you seem to think they mean, it's not like everyone in those areas are not the same haplogroup. Haplogroup has nothing to do with nationality or even race in the way you are using it.
>>67929940
I love the earnest wisdom of the Americans you see on TV. All that folksy life lesson shite, it's adorable. I actually want to live in the US at some point, because it seems like a cross between Disneyland and a military base.
>>67932323
The UK is shorthand for The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island, with "British" being the official demonym. This part isn't even confusing.
Because Drama class in school is mandatory from the age of 12 to 16 even if you're an introverted nerd who hates being the centre of attention ;_;
Drama class for introverts is like forcing left handed kids to write with their right hand.
>>67932436
Actually that's nothing to do with being an introvert, thats to do with being shy.
Plenty of actors are both introverted and shy, it just takes being able to see it as liberating as opposed to FUCKING TERRIFYING AND HORRIBLE. It's a good way to deal with all that social tension for the spaghetti-droppers.
>>67932491
Oh fuck off, no actors are introverted.
Acting is all about being an extrovert, just because Christian Bale likes his privacy doesn't make him an introvert. Drama class is hell for introverts, it's not fun at all and it's pretty much bullying and making you feel bad for wanting to be in the background and quiet.
>>67932562
Again, you are confusing being introverted with being shy. Not the same thing.
Way more actors than you think are introverted, for the reasons I said. I mean, fuck, Mark Rylance himself is hella introverted.
For people who find social situations stressful, turning it into a facade and a controlled environment can be very therapeutic.
>>67928106
Shakespeare is designed to inspire great performance in us all.
>>67932630
You have no idea what introverted means, fuck off
>>67932380
awww
<3 you too.
It all depends on where you are, here. Countryside, city, suburbs, desert... most of our states and cities have different 'personalities'. but I do think people here are mostly pretty sweet. Every country has some assholes, you know.
If you come visit, I think you should see and spend time inPittsurgh, PA
I love British films and lot of the celebs there. Would love to imagine what it'd be like to live there and hope to visit someday!
>>67934635
>Would love to imagine what it'd be like to live there and hope to visit someday!
brain shorted out there
"Would" should be "I"
>>67928106
I mean it is only like 4 countries with white people that speak English. USA, GB, Canadacucks, and Straya.
>>67929719
"Life is but a meme" - Shakespeare
>>67932759
You literally don't. It's not a catch-all term for all the social anxieties you have diagnosed yourself with.
>>67934692
>The American education system
