Accentuate The Positive

As far as I'm concerned, if you're making a movie you should hire the best person available for each part.  But I have heard American actors complain about those from overseas taking American roles. (It's more serious on Broadway where Actors' Equity has restrictions on foreign actors.) So I wonder how they feel right now, looking at two high profile films featuring a lot of assignments for actresses.

There's Bombshell.  The director is Jay Roach, an American, but for the three lead roles he's hired Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie--a South African and two Australians. They've gotten great reviews, so Roach must know what he's doing. But think about it--two of them are performing their very American roles by putting on accents (which, admittedly, they've done throughout their careers).

Then there's Little Women, an American classic about the four March sisters.  There have been a number of film adaptations--starring American actresses--but this time around, director Greta Gerwig (an American) has hired Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen.  Ronan is Irish, Scanlen is Australian and the other two are British.

Once again, Gerwig's film is getting good reviews.  But what about all those starving American actors?  She couldn't even find one?