The supposedly russian bad guys are mostly not actually russian. Mostly they are some variety of native Germanic speaking actors. If the casting department is going for authenticity, it may be someone speaking the wrong branch of Slavic.
Plus it’s easier to find huge, intimidating guys that way
Are we still talking about casting?
Plot twist: they now get Ukrainian actor to act as russian spy.
Really any eastern european will work. It’s not like we americans usually know what foreign language is being spoken.
Yeah, really. Peter Stormare has been playing Russian villains for decades and he’s Swedish.
Always cracks me up how Swedes are cast as Russians. Guess they convincingly do that stereotypical “Russian voice”
Any European really, Sean Connery might be dead but his memory lives on.
European?
I thought he was Egyptian.
