“Hobbs and Shaw” Begs the Question: “Will Anyone Ever Teach Jason Statham to Enunciate?”

Brandon Judell
4 min readAug 2, 2019
Photo Credit: Universal Pictures ©2019 UNIVERSAL STUDIOS

Jason Statham apparently is one of the world’s biggest action stars. Who am I to argue? I saw him in his very first feature, the highly entertaining Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), and I’ve apparently missed every other film he’s ever made, but not intentionally. I either had something in the oven or my BVDs were drying in the…

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Brandon Judell

For half a century, Brandon Judell has covered the LGBTQI scene and the arts. He currently lectures at The City College of New York.