What do you think about villains in American media having British accents?

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On 5/19/2020 at 1:53 PM, BelindaN said:

The thing is, posh Yorkshire doesn't really sound very Yorkshire at all.

 

My late mother was considered posh for pronouncing Bradford as it looks, instead of the rougher 'Bratford'.

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15 hours ago, Amina Sopwith said:

I liked that Robin Hood film with Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett a few years back. It wasn't particularly good but it was the first time I'd ever seen Robin Hood with a Midlands accent (or close to it). He'd always been American or an upper class public schoolboy before. 

His accent is a bit of a sore point, it seems.

https://www.nottinghampost.com/whats-on/film/russell-crowe-finally-explained-robin-1925296

I'm from Nottingham, and I agree, it's not a local accent.   In the article, Crowe is quoted as saying he based it on the broadcaster Michael Parkinson's Barnsley accent, to which it sounds reasonably close.