Jonathan Neri da who, you would say. Actually, Jonathan Neri is an up and coming actor, a really good actor. He is still very young and he appeared in the Eugene Domingo Best Actress winning film, Pisay. He is starring in the new indie film about call center agents, My Fake American Accent. But yeah, like any young, hot blooded alpha male, he has his weaknesses.

Jonathan Neri is the one on the left, 2nd to the left, exactly in the My Fake American Accent movie poster. Premiere screenings are on July 11-20 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP).

Watch Jonathan Neri in the trailer of My Fake American Accent below:

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Much has been said about the so called “racial slur” by Jimmy Kimmel in his late night show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” I really don’t take offense because the joke was not really on us as a people but with the Americans because obviously they don’t know better. As much as i hate to generalize, there is a pattern that an average American doesn’t know anything outside their country, heck, Fil-Am friends would even quip that Americans themselves doesn’t know much about their country except Hollywood.

The joke is on them because thousands of teachers from the Philippines leave every year for the US to teach English (yes!) and other subjects in English of course to their children. Also the call center industry is booming, meaning, Americans call for tech support and customer inquiries to Filipinos whom they think (or we fooled them to believe) that they are talking to an American because the accent and ability to speak English is indistinguishable to that of an ordinary American. A lot of BPO’s has even set shop here to telemarket, that is to sell stuff to Americans all thru the gift of gab and proficiency in the English languange.

So who is really laughing? We are all, all the way to the bank.

And as for Josh Hartnett, he seems to be on the joke himself. He didn’t even offer an elaboration on the Jimmy Kimmel quip. He made a joke himself about it, laughed about it. He was here on location for his film, I Come With the Rain. All throughout those, he was sorrounded by military/police personnel. He couldn’t possibly assess an entire race’s proficiency of the English languange on that basis. If he did, then I pity him.