Fantasy Island : Any overseas viewers here?

Any overseas viewers here?

What I'd like to know is whether Ricardo Montalban and Herve Villechaize were given accents when they were dubbed in other languages. I feel like it wouldn't be the same if they weren't. Part of the charm of the show was their exotic accents, a reminder that we're a melting pot that doesn't demand homogeneity.

In fact, I often wonder if any shows or movies dubbed into other languages make the dubbers use accents. Do Steed and Mrs. Peel have a British accent when speaking French, or is their French flawless? Do Jean-Luc Picard and James T. Kirk speak Italian indistinguishable from each other? Does Raj on Big Bang Theory sound just like his co-stars? That's one thing I like about American shows. Our shows have actors that showcase a wide range of accents while speaking English. True, they sometimes make fun of them, like a few episodes back on Agents of SHIELD when Hunter and one of his old friends spoke English with an accent so incredibly thick (Cockney?) that they put hard subtitles on the screen throughout the scene otherwise we wouldn't have understood one word.

Re: Any overseas viewers here?

I'd like to know this too. Someone out there has to know! lol

Hervé Villechaize is a sex god and my eternal soulmate. <3
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