Why do people set in Ancient Rome have English accents?

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

Maybe with English you have the ability to show different dialect and different backgrounds.

For instance, someone highborn speaks the same language as someone lowborn by you can tell who is who from the way they speak.

Highborn - Yes My Lord

Lowborn - Yes M'Lord

Lol so you don't think the same exists in Italian?

So make a tale about Italy, and cast English actors as it's more authentic than Italians?

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Lol so you don't think the same exists in Italian?

So make a tale about Italy, and cast English actors as it's more authentic than Italians?

Breh the primary audience = English speaking people...

I'm sure when GOT is translated into other languages, they use different dialects as well.

They also do this in anime a lot. An example of this was also in the Tarantino "Inglorious Basterds"

 

[RatherUnique]

that clears up game of thrones, but what about tales set in rome

Many reasons, but the most obvious is that the English speaking world will find a great variation of British accents more pleasing to the ear than a bunch of Italian actors trying their best to speak English. Then there are reasons like most of the directors/creators of stuff set in Rome are either British or American. Italy not particually being known for producing great actors/actresses or live theatre. I could go on and on.

And if the Italian actors were speaking Italian, the show would be hard to sell because most people hate subtitles.

It's kind of like when stuff about colonial America show the American's having modern American accents and the British having modern British accents. It's not realistic but it's convienent.

 

[We Major]

Well Game of Thrones is basically medieval fantasy, a genre birthed by the god Tolkien and other British authors. The American GOT creater took a lot from the history, culture and mythology of the British isles for influence. (As well as Europe in general.)
It's based on the English War Of Roses.
House Stark = real life House York. House Lannister = real life House Lancaster.
British regional accents for different areas.
If you take a map of GOT Known world/Westeros, it's damn near an exact mirror of the British Isles.

Do you think they made the Lannister accent more 'southern' in the TV show just to show a difference between North and South? A Yorkshire and Lancashire accent would be both 'northern' accents in UK terms if they did it that way in the show.

 

[Peak]

Do you think they made the Lannister accent more 'southern' in the TV show just to show a difference between North and South? A Yorkshire and Lancashire accent would be both 'northern' accents in UK terms if they did it that way in the show.

Yes. The Lannisters and the other southern houses speak the equivalent of the Queen's English.

 

[Kuwka_Atcha_Ratcha]

Breh the primary audience = English speaking people...

I'm sure when GOT is translated into other languages, they use different dialects as well.

They also do this in anime a lot. An example of this was also in the Tarantino "Inglorious Basterds"

breh... I didn't say they should speak Italian, I said they should speak with Italian accents.