Possivelmente é coincidência ... mas bons atores são bons atores. :)
Gale Ann Hurd era perguntado sobre a prevalência de atores ingleses / britânicos no Walking Dead e outros shows:
We asked Hurd why she thinks this keeps happening in American television and films – so many Brits/non-Americans playing these roles of Southerners – and she attributed it to open casting calls.
“When we do the casting, all of the auditions are posted on the website, and we don’t know necessarily where they’re from. So it’s completely equal opportunity. It just so happened that Andrew Lincoln and Lauren Cohan and David Morrissey all are based in the U.K.”
Carlton Cuse no casting Bates Motel (outros comentários nesse link):
"We looked at a lot of actors, but the truth is, there currently seems to be a big gulf between Australian and British actors and American actors. The American actors just don't seem as well trained or as deep and complex."
Finalmente, de Artigo 2015 Guardian ...
Spike Lee:
Lee put it down to the skills that British actors learn. Their training, he said, “is very proper, whereas some of these other brothers and sisters, you know, they come in here, and they don’t got that training”
Richard Hicks, presidente da Sociedade de Casting da América:
Hicks and his colleagues put the problem down to a failure to train American actors in character work. It is by building up a portfolio of cameo roles that a talent can develop, he argued.