As if Hollywood hasn’t been completely monopolized and enshittified to the point that they seem incapable of making anything worth watching.
Half of the actors playing Russian/eastern European villains are German or Swedish or something, and another quarter are British/American/Australian/Irish actors with varying quality of dialect coaching.
Plot twist: they now get Ukrainian actor to act as russian spy.
Really any eastern european will work. It’s not like we americans usually know what foreign language is being spoken.
Yeah, really. Peter Stormare has been playing Russian villains for decades and he’s Swedish.
Peter Stormare has been playing Russian villains for decades and he’s Swedish.

Any European really, Sean Connery might be dead but his memory lives on.
European?
I thought he was Egyptian.
True, the clue is the samurai sword.
This is a typecast:
const theNumber = 'lol' as DateThe supposedly russian bad guys are mostly not actually russian. Mostly they are some variety of native Germanic speaking actors. If the casting department is going for authenticity, it may be someone speaking the wrong branch of Slavic.
Plus it’s easier to find huge, intimidating guys that way
As if Russian actors will get the parts.
Putin did it all to keep that Hollywood goon money coming






