Oh for sure it’s not exclusive to English media, but English studios being as big as they are, there really isn’t any justification not to hire an actor that actually fits the ethnicity of the character…
Instead you’ve got Latin Americans and people from the middle East playing any characters with brown skin, black people playing any black character, any red head playing any Irish characters, all of them with a bad accent for the character…
And I’m not criticizing Patrick Stewart here! But I find it even funnier considering that there are other characters in Star Trek that have an accent fitting their origin, like Chekov (and they are least hired an actor whose parents were immigrants from the Soviet Union).
Oh for sure it’s not exclusive to English media, but English studios being as big as they are, there really isn’t any justification not to hire an actor that actually fits the ethnicity of the character…
Instead you’ve got Latin Americans and people from the middle East playing any characters with brown skin, black people playing any black character, any red head playing any Irish characters, all of them with a bad accent for the character…
And I’m not criticizing Patrick Stewart here! But I find it even funnier considering that there are other characters in Star Trek that have an accent fitting their origin, like Chekov (and they are least hired an actor whose parents were immigrants from the Soviet Union).