That I picked that up from the commentaries about Melvin Williams.
That and the homicide sergeant (the overweight one) is actually named after Jay Landsman.
I should've realized that Idris Elba was probably huge in the U.K. All I know is that when I heard his accent I was all, "Whaaaaaaaa?" Him and Dominic West both floored me like that.
I think Bamber does a fairly decent job with the non-descript American "broadcast" accent, but when he's "on" in some ways it sounds too perfect because it doesn't once waver or vary. It drives me a little nuts, actually.
As for Marsters, I remembered him from Northern Exposure (he was on in the last season), so I knew he wasn't British from the start. That, and it seemed that "Spike's" accent tended to take a tour of the British Isles on occasion. :-) [At least, that's what it sounded like to me when Marsters was in Spike mode, but it could be I could hear it because I knew he wasn't British to start with.]
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That and the homicide sergeant (the overweight one) is actually named after Jay Landsman.
I should've realized that Idris Elba was probably huge in the U.K. All I know is that when I heard his accent I was all, "Whaaaaaaaa?" Him and Dominic West both floored me like that.
I think Bamber does a fairly decent job with the non-descript American "broadcast" accent, but when he's "on" in some ways it sounds too perfect because it doesn't once waver or vary. It drives me a little nuts, actually.
As for Marsters, I remembered him from Northern Exposure (he was on in the last season), so I knew he wasn't British from the start. That, and it seemed that "Spike's" accent tended to take a tour of the British Isles on occasion. :-) [At least, that's what it sounded like to me when Marsters was in Spike mode, but it could be I could hear it because I knew he wasn't British to start with.]