British names abound at major awards ceremonies in the United States.
Of the 27 major Emmy Awards in 2021, 14 were awarded to britons, more than half of them. On Twitter, the 2021 Emmy Awards were even dubbed the British Emmys, and this is not the first time this has happened. Xiaobian often encounters that an actor feels that he is an American, but in fact, a careful search is an embarrassment for the British.
This phenomenon was called the British invasion by the Americans.
The first British invasion was the Beatles, who came to the United States in February 1964 to tour the United States and participated in the variety show "The Ed Sullivan Show" with a 45% rating and a 73 million audience.
Since then, more and more Britons have begun to expand into North America, including actors. After all, the United States was once a British colony, and the American people have a high degree of acceptance of British culture. British culture began to influence every aspect of American life, without exception.
At the beginning, British actors could only play soy sauce in American film and television dramas for historical reasons, play villains, and play British people. Until now, in American movies, villains have spoken with a British accent. But now British actors can play Americans in American dramas.
Why does the American film and television industry like to use British actors?
Because British actors usually have the following characteristics. Good acting skills, high education, good body proportions, high appearance.
Compared with mainland actors, most British actors come from the troupe's classical drama education is a compulsory course for British actors. When it comes to British actors, it will be associated with Shakespeare, classicism, good acting, and there are British actors who may be bad in the plot but not necessarily perform. In addition, British actors will return to the stage regularly to perform dramas even if they are on fire.
And the threshold for becoming an actor in the Uk is very high, to know astronomy, geography, proficient in multiple languages, many British actors are from Oxbridge, and they are not majoring in film and television. The academic qualifications alone have thrown the mainland actors several streets away, and they rarely set up a school bully, because they are all school bullies.
There is still a lot of room for progress in the development of film and television in the mainland.