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Originally Posted by termogard
For instance :
Behind Enemy Lines
The film, released by News Corporation division 20th Century Fox, features fictional news reports from Sky News, a sister company to Fox
None of the actors playing Serbians were actually Serbians; the producers said that they hired Croats to instruct the actors in bad Serbian language, because they could not find any Serbs willing to work on the film, due to anti-Serb sentiment carried through out the film. Vladimir Mashkov, the actor who played the Serbian sniper, Sasha, is Russian and Olek Krupa, the actor who played the Serbian General, Miroslav Lokar, is Polish. Also, the names of Serbian characters were not Serbian.
It was filmed in Slovakia, not Bosnia. During the shooting of the lakeside scene near the end, the countryside was unexpectedly devoid of snow. To recreate a snowy lake, the film's crew cleared part of a mountain of trees, used molten wax to create the appearance of a lake, and used paper snow to imitate real snow
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So, it's normal when Croats played roles of Serbs.  And Chinese played roles of Japanese......
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You specifically said "Asians" so that is what I hoped you would focus on.
Yet, if Serbians are not willing to play the roles of Serbians, then I am not sure how that is Hollywood shooting specifically for "hill billy viewers" (your words) if they cast actors from other countries rather than scrap the whole production.
Having people from one country play the role of people from other countries happens every day, and America is not the only, or even the worst offender (assuming that is an offense). A Texan plays the lead in
Bridget Jones' Diary and Englishman plays the role of American superhero Batman. An American also plays British super-sleuth Sherlock Holmes, and an Australian plays a Wyoming cowboy in
Brokeback Mountain.
You mention Chinese actors playing Japanese roles, and if you are talking about
Memoirs of a Geisha, that was done by design. Zhang Ziyi and Michelle Yeoh are bigger draws IN JAPAN than their female Japanese counterparts.
But how about non-Hollywood productions?
Rumble in the Bronx is full of all kinds of accents from the Caucasian actors...nary a one from anywhere near New York.