I had never looked up his background, but I just assumed, since his e tire person is based in the culture of Spain, that he was Spanish. This might be worse than Dern’s accent.
Am I crazy, or is it complete bullshit to claim a heritage of a country that you moved to at 15, if neither of your parents are Spanish?
I get meeting someone and saying “I’m from Spain” but not “I’m Spanish.”
While he was born in Hounslow, England (to a Jamaican father and a Dutch mother), he was raised in the Netherlands and competed internationally as a Dutch mixed martial artist and kickboxer.
Ilya / Ilia is a name with Russian roots, think of all the Ilya’s in the NHL, Kovalchuck/Bryzgalov, in the NHL. I think it comes from Elias, which is Hebrew
Just in case some people are skimming through, I wanted to point out a joke about how some people insist on calling black people “African American”, Even if they’ve never been in America. Hehe
Because he wasn’t born there and didn’t grow up there. Why not claim German you know, the actual country that took them in as refugees, saving their fucking lives?!? or Georgian, the land of his parents?
also, it’d be fine if he was casual about it. But his ENTIRE PERSONA is built around Spain.
It’s just like Alex Baldwin’s wife. “How you say…broken orbital?”