Here we have a collection of different roles and different languages, along with different registers within those languages; name actors such as Aina Clotet, Maggie Civantos, Magi, Eva Longoria, Marina Lozano, Jean Dujardin, Petrie Willink and others, figure prominently, along with plenty of unknown actors who are just as talented, not to mention just as wonderful.
Here Colin Morgan demonstrates his skills in the French language, his mother-tongue, whereupon he plays a Québecois, or French-Canadian, who finds himself in a Spanish hospital, an eccentric wanderer, a rapist who fancies himself a casanova, a 19th century brigand, a tired monarch, an easily irked waiter, even a sexually transmitted germ. The accents vary as do the mannerisms, with the goal of distinguishing each performance.
In this one, Colin Morgan demonstrates his command of English, his native tongue, as he plays a well-spoken gangster, an exasperated 19th century King, a passive-aggressive blue-collar customs agent, a semi-houligan and, last but not least, a Putin-inspired Spanish mobster.
In the short film ‘Saturats’ AKA ‘Saturados’, Colin plays a Japanese man, a risky choice, but one which reflects his bold entrance into Spanish-language roles. What follows is a homophobic Mexican bartender, a Russian mobster who is quite the hispanophile, a bilingual handyman with an alternate take in Catalan, a Québecois who learned Spanish in a hurry, a semi-houligan goofball who reveals himself to be a flawless Catalan speaker and finally a satisfied customer of a shipping website who, some suspect, was dubbed. (He wasn’t.)
This one begins with a portrayal of an all too familiar archetype in the film industry: the perpetual featured extra, a guy who doesn’t know enough about the industry to climb the ladder. Sadly, we can all relate, which makes the role funnier than it should be. Some silly outtakes are included here as well, the overly sensitive French waiter, a bewildered brigand, an ambulance-chasing lawyer who can barely read a teleprompter, the semi-houligan once again, a Southern lawyer with as close to a N’Orleans [sic] accent as he could muster, the website commercial, ending with a throwback to a younger Colin consisting of a fast-talking Gen X Venice-beach creature, full of ideas and slang, but no follow-through.