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Hollywood and Owain Glyndwr?

Promoting Wales in the USA

Jonathan Pryce would lend a dignified air to the role of Owain. Roger Rees, might look too impish.Hm, never heard of "House of America". Embarrassment to Wales aye? I'll have to check it out! If you saw The Corn is Green, you'd wince. Same with "How Green..." with Walter Pigeon and Maureen O'Hara/Sullivan? More Hollywood than Rhymney.See if I can locate H of A. in local vid store. Can't get my hands on The World's Fastest Indian. A friend says it's worth watching - more than once. Anthony H. is great in the role. He said it's one of his favourite films too.Well, maybe someone can drop hints Hollywood's way about Owain! He was an interesting character.

Hollywood and Owain Glyndwr?

Promoting Wales in the USA

If Hollywood even paid the slightest attention to the culture and history of Wales, rather than it's better looking citizens, who become stars worth mega-millions, we might have a chance of something like that being made - watchable in other words!Sarcasm not undue... those guys made bankable stars out of Ray M., Richard B., Anthony H., Catherine Z.J., etc. and got their money's worth back.It would be a good idea to make a film about that part of our history. Gritty truth, rather than the Hollywood machine glamour fare we usually get!Have you ever seen The Corn is Green with Bette Davis? The excuciatingly bad Welsh accents that dominate, would suggest, to me anyway, that only Welsh actors and actresses should play the roles. Poor Emlyn.... a part of him must have died when he saw/heard that!The lead? Depends on ages that Owain is played, but there's a few good possibilities. Matthew Rhys could play him as a younger man. Jonathan Pryce or Roger Rees as the older Owain.What do you think? Hwyl, Lynne