“I find standard American the hardest. It really fits in a different place in your mouth. Southern, I find the easiest. If you talk to a dialect coach and you get sort of technical, where an English person keeps their voice in their throat, a Southern person does the same, and it's got the same sort of music to talking.” IfsPersonsDoeDifferentVoiceTalkingFitStandardsMouthsCoachesHardestThroatSouthernDifferent PlaceDialectDialect Coach Author:Juno Temple
“The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.” WayLittlesAbleLostDifficultMonthsHabitSixCoachesAccentsEmbarrassedSix MonthsDialectDialect Coach Author:Martin Henderson
“I always say if you're going to do a movie about Charles de Gaulle get a Frenchman, you know. I'm not French. And yeah, sure I could get with a dialect coach and work for six months trying to talk like a Frenchman. But there's some French actors. Just get one of them, you know.” IfsKnowsTryingActorsMonthsSixYeahCoachesSix MonthsDialectFrenchmenDialect Coach Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I went to a dialect coach and she told me that I had five problems; two were my Israeli accent and three were my New Jersey accent. I don't even want to know what I sounded like back then!” KnowsWantTwoProblemThreeFiveCoachesAccentsJerseyIsraeliNew JerseyDialectDialect Coach Author:Odeya Rush
“'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in front of the mirror with my dialect coach to observe my tongue. You don't think, when you speak, about all the things that happen in your jaw and your mouth, how everything reacts, so you have to watch all those things and realise we have a totally different use of our tongue and jaws.” ThinkingDifferentUseHappensSpeakDifficultHoursWatchesFrontsMouthsLettersMirrorsTongueCoachesRealisingDialectDialect Coach Author:Marion Cotillard
“I worked with an amazing dialect coach named Jill McCullough. We did Skype sessions while I was shooting "No Escape" in Thailand, actually. So three times a week I would have long, two-hour sessions with her just working on the nuance of the accent, which I had had a huge background in because I went to drama school in England for four years.” YearsLongTwoSchoolThreeHoursFourWeekHugeDramaEnglandCoachesBackgroundsShootingFour YearsAccentsThree TimesSessionNuanceDialectThailandSkypeDialect Coach Author:Lake Bell
“I had had a huge background in the nuance of the accent because I went to drama school in England for four years.” YearsSchoolFourHugeDramaEnglandBackgroundsFour YearsAccentsNuanceSkypeDialect Coach Author:Lake Bell
“I had a really fantastic dialect coach that I worked very well with, and I was constantly surprised by the different intonations that the Russian dialect has.” WellsDifferentCoachesFantasticDialectIntonationDialect Coach Author:Andrew Scott
“There's a bit of a difference in the way he sounds. Samuel E. Wright lent his voice and personality to the animated film with his booming voice. I have a high-tenor voice. Instead, I have to figure out a way to convince the audience to come along with me and accept this new texture and tambour to the way Sebastian sounds. I have a great dialect coach.” WayFilmBitsSoundVoiceDifferencesAcceptingAudienceFiguresPersonalityCoachesConvinceTextureAnimatedDialectTenorsAnimated FilmsDialect Coach Author:Tituss Burgess
“When I am playing a role far away from me with an accent that is not mine I always employ a dialect coach. I am almost always playing someone that has an accent that is not mine.” RolesMinesCoachesFar AwayAccentsDialectPlaying SomeoneDialect Coach Author:David Oyelowo
“I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.” BitsVoiceCoachesMysteriousAccentsDialectDialect Coach Author:Archie Panjabi