One key attribute necessary for a career in acting is the ability to clearly say your lines. Gargling them or goofing them up isn't a path to being called back for future roles. So, you can readily see the obstacles that the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone overcame to enjoy such success despite their well-known verbal challenges.
It is therefore with some astonishment that I recently saw an ad for a new movie that stars the two together. As an english-speaking American, it takes a goodly portion of any movie starring ONE of them to get into their verbal "groove," so the thought of a movie requiring me to translate the two of them simultaneously simply gives me a headache.
And this is without actually having to watch it - can you imagine the mental damage THAT would do?
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