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Michael Sheen says he finds it 'hard to accept' when Welsh characters are played by non-Welsh actors - and reiterates his call for Prince of Wales title to be abolished
Daily Mail ^ | 6/6/23

Posted on 06/06/2023 5:08:32 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

Actor Michael Sheen has today said that he finds it 'very hard to accept' when Welsh characters are not played by Welsh actors, while also taking aim at the Prince of Wales title.

In an interview with the Telegraph, Sheen blasted the 'ridiculous' title of the Prince of Wales.

'It's just silly. I see no reason why the title should continue. Certainly not with someone who's not Welsh.'

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Political Humor/Cartoons; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: appropriation; michaelsheen; wales; welsh
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To: ground_fog

I think about three of the guys I. Band of Brothers were from UK. In fact the guy who played Dick Winter graduated from Eton.


41 posted on 06/06/2023 8:11:44 AM PDT by mware
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To: Eleutheria5
You mean since I'm Welsh, I can go to Hollywood and play a Welshman? Of course, I bet I could act better than 99.999% of those actors.

Sorry but being in a cesspool called Hollywood, I'll pass. 🤓

42 posted on 06/06/2023 8:13:16 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: Eleutheria5

Edward II only spoke no English at birth. By the time he was a youth, I am sure he was perfectly fluent. (There is no direct evidence that Richard I, CÅ“ur de Lion, raised in Norman castles in England, spoke English. He composed poems in Latin and Occitan, but none in English that have come down to us.)


43 posted on 06/06/2023 8:14:48 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)
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To: Deplorable American1776

Don’t care who plays as a Welshman as long as they can sing and play rugby.


44 posted on 06/06/2023 8:14:49 AM PDT by mware
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To: KobraKai

The Scottish are the same, but you don’t hear the Cornish getting all antsy.

BTW, does it work the other way, too? Sir Richard Burton, a Welshman, played Petruchio in the Taming of the Shrew, and he’s not even Italian.


45 posted on 06/06/2023 8:24:34 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“Edward II only spoke no English at birth.”

Lol. Neither did you or I.


46 posted on 06/06/2023 8:25:26 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Sheen is most famous for playing Tony Blair, an Englishman (or maybe a Scotsman if you go back far enough, but by no means a Welshman) and Martin Whitley, a fictional American murderer (also not Welsh), in a Fox series.


47 posted on 06/06/2023 8:26:24 AM PDT by x
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To: Eleutheria5

Sheen is most best known for playing Tony Blair, an Englishman (or maybe a Scotsman if you go back far enough, but by no means a Welshman) and perhaps Martin Whitley, a fictional American murderer (also not Welsh), in a Fox series.


48 posted on 06/06/2023 8:27:03 AM PDT by x
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To: Eleutheria5

..while we are at it Anthony Hopkins another Welshman. Should he a allowed to play serial killers?


49 posted on 06/06/2023 8:27:33 AM PDT by mware
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

“(There is no direct evidence that Richard I, CÅ“ur de Lion, raised in Norman castles in England, spoke English.”

Richard Coer de Lion died in 1199. If you measure the birth of English as a language from the writing of the Canterbury Tales in 1387 (or was it 1400?), there was no English to speak in 1199, nor in the days of Edward II. There was an informal mish-mosh of Norman French and Saxon German along with a few other languages, but no body of literature as of yet.


50 posted on 06/06/2023 8:30:53 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: mware

Yeah, dammit! Why didn’t a real serial killer get the role?


51 posted on 06/06/2023 8:31:48 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: x

Those Welshmen should stick to mining their own anthracite. And how come he has no beef with the “Welshmen” in Zulu. Were they really Welsh, or just good singers?


52 posted on 06/06/2023 8:34:31 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Eleutheria5

Well actually two members of cast were Welshman. Stanly Baker who played the role of Lt. Chard, who was awarded VC, and Ivor Emmanuel who played the role of Private Owen who sang lead in “Men of Harlech.”


53 posted on 06/06/2023 8:48:17 AM PDT by mware
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To: Eleutheria5

There was “Anglo-Saxon”, and Beowulf dates to the Seventh Century. There was clearly writing in Anglo-Saxon at least from the Seventh Century, and an English alphabet, though no clear single dominant dialect, but late West Saxon became dominant. Chaucer is considered Middle English, Beowulf Old-English or Anglo-Saxon. Shakespeare is considered early modern English, though much of his language is archaic today.


54 posted on 06/06/2023 8:55:27 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (If Kitty Genovese had a gun, she’d be in jail today.)
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To: Eleutheria5
I don't like Northerners and West Coast Yankees portraying Southerners. I don't like women from England portraying people from Montana, or Americans for that matter. I don't like blacks portraying whites or vice versa. This could go on ad nauseum.
55 posted on 06/06/2023 9:26:18 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Eleutheria5

“I see no reason why the title should continue. Certainly not with someone who’s not Welsh.”

Well, the reason is because you got conquered. So your crown is no longer in the hands of the Welsh.


56 posted on 06/06/2023 9:29:50 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Eleutheria5

Eats a decent amount of fish though, I hear.


57 posted on 06/06/2023 9:31:10 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: escapefromboston

I was gonna say. He may have forgotten the sarc tag. Maybe he thought he didn’t need it.


58 posted on 06/06/2023 10:22:30 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: skeeter

That fits. Better than my second thought: Prince of Wells.

Or maybe Prince of ‘Wales? (Short for gunwales).


59 posted on 06/06/2023 10:24:38 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Timber Rattler

after 722 years maybe they could withdraw the troops.


60 posted on 06/06/2023 10:52:40 AM PDT by coalminersson
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