August 11, 2026 • 9 mins
The show debates casting and authenticity after Nate questions a British actor playing George Washington, leading to a heated conversation about accents, representation and where we should draw the line with acting.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey up, people were.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Text again about some of the TV shows we were just
talking about, and thumbs up for that sterling point you're
talking about, Danielle. A lot of people responded to that
more than any other. And of course Widow's Bay they
loved it too, and that Matthew Reese.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
What a star.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
But I know, okay, Matthew Reese the guy who plays
the mayor on this New England Island, a United States
property in America. So Matthew Reese is I believe from Wales.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
If I'm not mistaken, it's.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Welsh, so he has that Welsh, British you whatever. But
he does such a great job masking that when he
does American roles.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I didn't know he wasn't from here for the longest time.
So then when I finally saw an interview with him,
I'm like, what.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I can't say. It freaks you out, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yeah, I mean, he's such a good actor, the fact
that he can just get rid of that accent. But
it's it's uh, I mean, for some people it just
doesn't I can't do it. So Nate was going off.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
He saw. What film did you see about?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Was going to the President Washington, the first president of
the United States, so he was.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Going to see Young Washington. It just came out a
couple of months ago about George Washington as a young fellow.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I mean, how can you be more American than George
freakin watching exactly?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
So I was getting good reviews and I look it
up and I look up the guy that's playing Washington,
William Franklin Miller, English actor. What No, we're not doing
this supposed to be American.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Have a whole point why by George Washington.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
The whole point of head was to get rid of
that we don't We didn't.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
We didn't want the British people on our you for
seeing my side of things? Like, really, was it that
hard to not find an American guy to play Young Washington?
But if he's a great actress, it's just the one role.
I'm like, come on, people.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
This drives my husband crazy because he's British. So whenever
there's a person putting on a British accent, he knows
right away that it's fake and he's like, I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
There's lots of Brits out there.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Get a person who is a real brit to play it.
If you want an accent, this accent is horrific.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh yeah, hold that thought, Hold on, yeah, how come it.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Is just from this point of view, from what we've
talked about.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Now, how come these actors from other countries can totally
wash out their accent and sound like they're from here,
but we can't do the opposite.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I think some people can't. Leandardo DiCaprio did an incredible
South African accent in The Blood Diamond.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Okay, now, but holding but Gandhi brought up a great point,
yeah about Lion King.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Go Okay, So we were talking about the outrage when
people get upset about certain casting, Like people were upset
about the casting for The Odyssey, as though it's a
real life story. There's a cyclops, let's suspend reality. But
nobody got upset that the Lion King was full of
British and American accents in the middle of Africa.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Where would that even come from? Exactly? See how we
are Americans.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
No, When I was little and I saw that movie,
I remember my dad specifically being like, none of the
animals would have sounded like that for some things, and
then we don't brothers like, there's outrage about a black mermaid.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
It's a mermaid. What do you mean? I think there's
somebody more.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Outrage about the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park not looking like
what they probably would look like than all the other stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Remember the stories when Little Mermaid came out animated and
she's she's a black Mermaid and people went nuts, and
We're like, what are you saying? It's a freaking mermaid?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Mermaid?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
People?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
The Odyssey is a myth. Well hold on, here comes scary.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Hold on.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
This is more on the home front.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Okay, but I get offended when I hear commercials and
see commercials for people trying to do New York accents
but they're clearly from Los Angeles. You're taking work away
from New Yorkers and Brooklyn.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And it wants me crazy too, because it is the word.
People trying to do a New York accent that can't
do it.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
It is.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
We're looking at each other one morning, Danielle's like, scary,
you hear this? I said, Oh, I hear this there
right now, that's a fake Brooklyn accent right there.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I know it's really bad.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Boston is about the same thing.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I'm sure, same thing.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So people try to do to Boston accents and people
in Boston are not for it.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
For half the accents and the departed were like, what
in the world and is going on?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And there's so many talented people that come from Boston
that can do their Boston, come from New York, come
from I get it's acting. But if you want it
to be an authentic accent and the other person can't.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Do it, okay, well on, then is it okay for
someone who uh is not paraplegic pay play a paraplegic?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Is okay my gaze? Let's talk up my gaze.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
When you see Neil Patrick Harris playing a straight gun,
are you like, oh, come.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
On, Elvis. There is so much I can your diversity.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
But when I see a gay guy trying to play
a straight guy, I'm like, nah, he doesn't know what
he's doing it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I know, but how about you strakes tending to be gays?
But you're you're an actor.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
You're an actor and you're you're good at your craft,
and they hired you even though you don't like to
play with other beds waiters.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
How did you feel about Heath Ledger and Jake diyllon
Hall and Broke Back Mountain.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Were you like that?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I was?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I thought it was hot in that tent.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Are you kidding? Beef there? Okay, No, there's beef in there.
That's the problem.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Okay, So here a couple of text. People are not listening.
George Wall Washington was British. He wouldn't be American until
we won the Revolution.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Oh you know that John.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Washington when he was younger was a British soldier. America
didn't exist.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I'd be aware, okay, but I'm just saying was an
American actor.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's been two hundred and fifty years. That's it. Period.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
They go and say there were no American people, American
presidents until like Van Buren.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Was born in the US. I'm well aware of my history.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I just wanted an American to play this person in
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Build a bridge and get over it. God.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So anyway, the whole things is kind of fun, and
I'm sure people are out there getting all twisted mad.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
But as we have fun, swerve it off the road.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Was that show?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You remember the show Atypical and the lead actor played
a child with autism and he doesn't have autism in
real life. I thought he did a brilliant job and
the show did really well. But I don't have autism,
so I wonder how somebody with autism would feel about that.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You know, well, let me ask you this. Yeah, and
this text is saying this, it's accurate. Would you be
offended if a non serial killer played a serial killer?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Where did you draw the line? Tom Hanks have played
Forrest Gump exactly. We're not quite sure how he was
diagnosed that character.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Really, I don't know, speaking of disabilities, I know what's
eat in Gilbert Grape. Elvis Leonardo DiCaprio was so good
in that role. I thought he had I thought the
actor had an issue, you know, I thought he actually
had a diagnosis.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
He was so good, So I guess maybe that was
that was Arnie, right, Arnie, Arnie in the tree. Where's Arnie?
He's in the tree.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He was so good. It was great. I know. See
you allow that to happen.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
But that's because it's good acting. That's my I guess.
My point is it's good enough acting. I'll, you know,
let some stuff slide.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Okay, here's another example, another example.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
We had him on our show The guy who plays
Cameron on Modern Family.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, he's also he's really good though. Oh but he's
not gay though he plays a game. You're okay with that?
And I thought he was gay. Let me tell you
he he really is.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
So you're saying it's okay for his trade guy to
play it gay if he really is convincing.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I just don't understand how a director can sit there
and know that the accent is so off and be
okay with it and be like, eh, well, go right ahead. No, No,
I'm paying a lot of money. Go see a freaking
movie or stream something. I want authenticity.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I mean Gandhi.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Remember she walked in here one day, She said, I
saw it. I saw a documentary about Jesus last night.
They used a white cot.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Don't get me started, don't get myself met, Bible.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
My mom's my mom's like Jesus would not look like that.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You my.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Hm, Timmothy shallow May getting plowed by a old rib eater?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Wh's his name? Are you talking about.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
The actor? And call me by your name? Arnie Arnie,
Arnie Hammer, Armie Hammer, Armie Hammer.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
He got plowed by Armie Hammer in a movie.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
What didn't he I think he did. I feel like
you would know this. And because he called me, called me,
called me by your name. Was a great film.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I think you're right.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, And Armie Hammer had his way with Timothy Shallow
and he was quote straight unquote
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey up, people were.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Text again about some of the TV shows we were just
talking about, and thumbs up for that sterling point you're
talking about, Danielle. A lot of people responded to that
more than any other. And of course Widow's Bay they
loved it too, and that Matthew Reese.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
What a star.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
But I know, okay, Matthew Reese the guy who plays
the mayor on this New England Island, a United States
property in America. So Matthew Reese is I believe from Wales.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
If I'm not mistaken, it's.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Welsh, so he has that Welsh, British you whatever. But
he does such a great job masking that when he
does American roles.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
I didn't know he wasn't from here for the longest time.
So then when I finally saw an interview with him,
I'm like, what.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
I can't say. It freaks you out, doesn't it.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yeah, I mean, he's such a good actor, the fact
that he can just get rid of that accent. But
it's it's uh, I mean, for some people it just
doesn't I can't do it. So Nate was going off.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
He saw. What film did you see about?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Was going to the President Washington, the first president of
the United States, so he was.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Going to see Young Washington. It just came out a
couple of months ago about George Washington as a young fellow.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I mean, how can you be more American than George
freakin watching exactly?
Speaker 4 (01:30):
So I was getting good reviews and I look it
up and I look up the guy that's playing Washington,
William Franklin Miller, English actor. What No, we're not doing
this supposed to be American.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Have a whole point why by George Washington.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
The whole point of head was to get rid of
that we don't We didn't.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
We didn't want the British people on our you for
seeing my side of things? Like, really, was it that
hard to not find an American guy to play Young Washington?
But if he's a great actress, it's just the one role.
I'm like, come on, people.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
This drives my husband crazy because he's British. So whenever
there's a person putting on a British accent, he knows
right away that it's fake and he's like, I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
There's lots of Brits out there.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Get a person who is a real brit to play it.
If you want an accent, this accent is horrific.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Oh yeah, hold that thought, Hold on, yeah, how come it.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Is just from this point of view, from what we've
talked about.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Now, how come these actors from other countries can totally
wash out their accent and sound like they're from here,
but we can't do the opposite.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I think some people can't. Leandardo DiCaprio did an incredible
South African accent in The Blood Diamond.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Okay, now, but holding but Gandhi brought up a great point,
yeah about Lion King.
Speaker 5 (02:50):
Go Okay, So we were talking about the outrage when
people get upset about certain casting, Like people were upset
about the casting for The Odyssey, as though it's a
real life story. There's a cyclops, let's suspend reality. But
nobody got upset that the Lion King was full of
British and American accents in the middle of Africa.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Where would that even come from? Exactly? See how we
are Americans.
Speaker 5 (03:15):
No, When I was little and I saw that movie,
I remember my dad specifically being like, none of the
animals would have sounded like that for some things, and
then we don't brothers like, there's outrage about a black mermaid.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
It's a mermaid. What do you mean? I think there's
somebody more.
Speaker 5 (03:34):
Outrage about the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park not looking like
what they probably would look like than all the other stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Remember the stories when Little Mermaid came out animated and
she's she's a black Mermaid and people went nuts, and
We're like, what are you saying? It's a freaking mermaid?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Mermaid?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
People?
Speaker 2 (03:54):
The Odyssey is a myth. Well hold on, here comes scary.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Hold on.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
This is more on the home front.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Okay, but I get offended when I hear commercials and
see commercials for people trying to do New York accents
but they're clearly from Los Angeles. You're taking work away
from New Yorkers and Brooklyn.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And it wants me crazy too, because it is the word.
People trying to do a New York accent that can't
do it.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
It is.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
We're looking at each other one morning, Danielle's like, scary,
you hear this? I said, Oh, I hear this there
right now, that's a fake Brooklyn accent right there.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I know it's really bad.
Speaker 5 (04:34):
Boston is about the same thing.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I'm sure, same thing.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So people try to do to Boston accents and people
in Boston are not for it.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
For half the accents and the departed were like, what
in the world and is going on?
Speaker 1 (04:46):
And there's so many talented people that come from Boston
that can do their Boston, come from New York, come
from I get it's acting. But if you want it
to be an authentic accent and the other person can't.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Do it, okay, well on, then is it okay for
someone who uh is not paraplegic pay play a paraplegic?
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Is okay my gaze? Let's talk up my gaze.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
When you see Neil Patrick Harris playing a straight gun,
are you like, oh, come.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
On, Elvis. There is so much I can your diversity.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
But when I see a gay guy trying to play
a straight guy, I'm like, nah, he doesn't know what
he's doing it.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
I know, but how about you strakes tending to be gays?
But you're you're an actor.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
You're an actor and you're you're good at your craft,
and they hired you even though you don't like to
play with other beds waiters.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
How did you feel about Heath Ledger and Jake diyllon
Hall and Broke Back Mountain.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Were you like that?
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I was?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I thought it was hot in that tent.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Are you kidding? Beef there? Okay, No, there's beef in there.
That's the problem.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Okay, So here a couple of text. People are not listening.
George Wall Washington was British. He wouldn't be American until
we won the Revolution.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Oh you know that John.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Washington when he was younger was a British soldier. America
didn't exist.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
I'd be aware, okay, but I'm just saying was an
American actor.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
It's been two hundred and fifty years. That's it. Period.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
They go and say there were no American people, American
presidents until like Van Buren.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Was born in the US. I'm well aware of my history.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
I just wanted an American to play this person in
twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Build a bridge and get over it. God.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
So anyway, the whole things is kind of fun, and
I'm sure people are out there getting all twisted mad.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
But as we have fun, swerve it off the road.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Was that show?
Speaker 1 (06:48):
You remember the show Atypical and the lead actor played
a child with autism and he doesn't have autism in
real life. I thought he did a brilliant job and
the show did really well. But I don't have autism,
so I wonder how somebody with autism would feel about that.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
You know, well, let me ask you this. Yeah, and
this text is saying this, it's accurate. Would you be
offended if a non serial killer played a serial killer?
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Where did you draw the line? Tom Hanks have played
Forrest Gump exactly. We're not quite sure how he was
diagnosed that character.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
Really, I don't know, speaking of disabilities, I know what's
eat in Gilbert Grape. Elvis Leonardo DiCaprio was so good
in that role. I thought he had I thought the
actor had an issue, you know, I thought he actually
had a diagnosis.
Speaker 3 (07:44):
He was so good, So I guess maybe that was
that was Arnie, right, Arnie, Arnie in the tree. Where's Arnie?
He's in the tree.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
He was so good. It was great. I know. See
you allow that to happen.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
But that's because it's good acting. That's my I guess.
My point is it's good enough acting. I'll, you know,
let some stuff slide.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
Okay, here's another example, another example.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
We had him on our show The guy who plays
Cameron on Modern Family.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Yeah, he's also he's really good though. Oh but he's
not gay though he plays a game. You're okay with that?
And I thought he was gay. Let me tell you
he he really is.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
So you're saying it's okay for his trade guy to
play it gay if he really is convincing.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
I just don't understand how a director can sit there
and know that the accent is so off and be
okay with it and be like, eh, well, go right ahead. No, No,
I'm paying a lot of money. Go see a freaking
movie or stream something. I want authenticity.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
I mean Gandhi.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Remember she walked in here one day, She said, I
saw it. I saw a documentary about Jesus last night.
They used a white cot.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Don't get me started, don't get myself met, Bible.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
My mom's my mom's like Jesus would not look like that.
Speaker 4 (08:55):
You my.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Hm, Timmothy shallow May getting plowed by a old rib eater?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Wh's his name? Are you talking about.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
The actor? And call me by your name? Arnie Arnie,
Arnie Hammer, Armie Hammer, Armie Hammer.
Speaker 5 (09:19):
He got plowed by Armie Hammer in a movie.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
What didn't he I think he did. I feel like
you would know this. And because he called me, called me,
called me by your name. Was a great film.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
I didn't see it.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
I think you're right.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, And Armie Hammer had his way with Timothy Shallow
and he was quote straight unquote
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