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Toníght a German TV station will show "Cool runnings", the movie about the Jamaican bobsled team from 1993. As I never saw that movie before I looked into Wikipedia to find out something about the background. I was surprised that none of the actors who played the four Jamaican sportsmen were Jamaican or of Jamaican descent. As far as I know this movie had extraordinary influence on the perception of JA in Europe. What do you real Jamaicans think about that?
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Re: American actors in "Cool Runnings" movie from 1993
i thought the movie was entertaining...of course jamaicans knew these guys were just actors playing jamaicans, no need for shock...
i'm sure a lot of the actors playing world war 2 soldiers in those old movies weren't really german either;
perception of j-a in europe?
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Re: American actors in "Cool Runnings" movie from 1993
At least there's one Jamaican actor, Winston Stona, who played Detective Ray Jones in "The Harder They Come".Comment
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