10 Problems With Constantine That Got It Cancelled
2. Hiring A Welshman
With apologies to Matt Ryan, who did the best he could with the material and certainly looked the part, he appeared to spend a lot of his time on-screen in Constantine trying to mask his natural Welsh accent. The Hellblazer has always been a scouser, through and through. It was commendable they didn't follow the film route of making him American, but plumping for an actor from Wales felt a bit like, well, he's from the United Kingdom. That's close enough, right? As much as they took great pains to do Ryan up like the comic character bleaching his hair, putting him in the classic trenchcoat get up, albeit looking a little too clean they fell at the final hurdle. It was difficult to ever quite buy Ryan as John Constantine. Not that his accent was bad, just that it felt a bit generic English that any specific dialect, and it was always clear that it wasn't his natural form of speak. Where the rest of his performance was fine, it was always at odds with the voice he was delivering it in.
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