Peter Stormare Is the King of European Accents

James asks all-time movie villain Peter Stormare about his rise to fame in Hollywood and learns a shift in casting movie bad guys opened up a lane for him to unleash his Russian accent, which is like his Hungarian accent, which is like his Estonian accent, which is like his German accent.

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[Wolf]

"They can't tell Serbia from Senegal" - a joke that evidently flew ENTIRELY over the audience's heads, basically proving the guy's point lmao

[joonasvuomajoki]

Peter Stormare, the man of 100 accents. 99 of them Russian.

[antondavidovic]

They forgot to mention his looks. He looks Balkan, eastern European and Germanic all at the same time.

[verfed]

I loved him in Armageddon, "American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!"

[ejsnf]

This guy is the villain in almost every movie and it doesn’t get old.

[juangallego]

"They can't tell Serbia from Senegal "
Roast of the century
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[kdd]

"If you're born in Europe they think you speak all European languages"🤣🤣🤣ha ha ...so true

[Donegal]

Keanu: "Wait, were you actually doing the accent?"
Peter: "Noo. They don't know the difference!"
🤣🤣🤣

[roberthindmon]

The fact he is wearing a Nihilist shirt as a reference to his role in The Big Lebowski is just wonderful.

[RamnaViaz]

"They can't tell Serbia from Senegal" could be the answer to one of those tik tok challenges of "tell me you're American without saying you're American"

[halkingb]

The only fake thing about this is James Corden's laugh.

[sya]

Rumour has it that he’s still looking for the Fibonacci.

[michaelteasdill]

Peter Stormare IS FANTASTIC still remember him as Lucifer in Constantine with Keanu again, wow what great actors

[scottbbt]

This guy is such a good villain actor that I found myself being surprised that he’s actually nice.

[yurisirotin]

I can only imagine the self discipline it took him not to kill anybody in this studio

[varpilahchase]

..."they can't tell Serbia from Senegal..."

You right!

[cwell]

Wow, first time seeing Peter Stormare do a late night talk show, definitely long overdue. Very underrated actor; been in some of the most memorable action movies in the last 30 years.

[natewilkie]

One of my favorite casting decisions ever is when the showrunners for Prison Break had Peter Stormare play an Italian mob boss doing literally just his normal voice and accent (not to mention his obvious Scandinavian appearance). I can see him just saying "Okay sure!" when they asked if he could pull off Italian

[ErwinSchrodinger]

When he played Satan in Constantine, seriously, that was so well acted that it still creeps me out and still have a hard time watching it.

[justarussian]

That's awesome to fake a Russian speech without using a single Russian word for that.