Garoo

Frozen to the Touch, il y a 5 ans :

Omar never swears. How cool is that?

garoo, il y a 5 ans :

Hadn\'t noticed that he actually _never_ swore (Google confirms it).

But he cool all right.

Frozen to the Touch, il y a 5 ans :

hehe.

rhino75, il y a 5 ans :

I keep saying "a'ight" to people, but I don't think I'm very convincing.

garoo, il y a 5 ans :

But many of the actors are theatre actres from London (I need to find an interview of Idris Elba au naturel), so you should be at least halfway there :)

rhino75, il y a 5 ans :

:) ) true. But your U.S. accent is still better than mine. There's a good one of Idris in all his London-accented glory on YouTube called (perhaps unimaginatively) Idris Elba Interview on the account of one Omar Little. ..

garoo, il y a 5 ans :

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ_pvrS6oMA (contains season 3 spoilers)

Right. He doesn\'t sound very recognizably British to me, like Chuck Bass does in interviews. And he doesn\'t feel much nicer than Stringer Bell, either :)

rhino75, il y a 5 ans :

I had to check both, obviously. And you're right - Westwick's British accent is definitely stronger, he's got that great drawl going on. It IS a bit disappointing that Idris seems much more interesting as Stringer Bell than as himself - but Omar is still the star of the show for me :)

garoo, il y a 5 ans :

Interesting? Isn't he mostly one-note scary? :) Regardless of the drug dealing and assassinating, even in The Office it felt like he would break your neck if you looked at him funny. I wouldn't want to meet him, whether in- or off-character :)

Yeah, it's hard to believe that Omar is inspired from real-life characters rather than just a white man's fantasy of a gay cowboy injected into the show to make it cooler and/or more relatable :)

garoo, il y a 5 ans :

But watching the Idris Elba interview out of context you'd immediately tell he's British?

rhino75, il y a 5 ans :

hah, you're such a wuss! :)) Yeah, Idris sounds like a Londoner to me, especially when he says "wiv" instead of "with". I now want to go to Baltimore - anywhere that inspired both "Hairspray" and "The Wire" has got to be completely f*cked up (in a good way) :))

garoo, il y a 5 ans :

Just watched it again to catch it and (1) still don't see it, I guess I'm only familiar with the more stereotypical English accents and (2) damn I don't like that guy, I get an awful vibe from him and I'm glad I saw him in The Office first so I'm able to say it's not just because of his character :)

Yeah, the show makes me want to visit Baldmore like I want to visit Guantanamo. That is, not at all.