Dimitri's accent....
Where is it?
A hardcore Russian gangster but he's speaking like he did in Walk Hard.
What am I gonna do... with a gun rack?
An episode or two ago, He said he grew up (or spent several years) somewhere on the East Coast. I forget which state exactly. Pennsylvania, Rhode Island somewhere like that. I just remember it's not NY which is where the actor is from and I thought he was say because the actor can't carry the accent for sh.|t.
But, yeah, Ray Donovan's casting leaves a lot to be desired all the way around.
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Too many shows do this today - the Russian gangster somehow grew up in, or was at least educated, in the west BUT retains absolute loyalty to Mother Russia!
shareAll I take that as is a cheap cop out that the actor couldn't get a Russian accent down so they make up that BS. The same way they did with Brad Pitt in Snatch, except there it worked perfectly.
What am I gonna do... with a gun rack?
I completely agree. There are any number of well known character actors they could have used to play Dmitri who have or could fake a Russian or at the very least an Eastern European accent. Like everyone's favorite Russian bad guys Rade Serbedzija or Olek Krupa. Instead they get a Native New Yorker who sounds like a native New Yorker.
And don't get me started on Sonya's South African accent.
Like I said, someone in the Ray Donovan casting department is hiring their friends. Good actors but not necessarily the right people for the roles.
I don't trust people who don't like pets and I don't trust people who pets don't like.