You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.
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I think when you have to train an accent, it just takes you absolutely into another spectrum of the character.
I can do accents really well.
When you speak in another accent, it affects you. You can't help but be changed by it.
I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have a think about where doing these funny voices might get you someday.'
One of the things that I'm realizing is that in voice-over work, you have to actually do more work with your facial muscles and your mouth. You have to kind of exaggerate your pronunciation a little bit more, whereas with live action, you can get away with mumbling sometimes.
Voices are always a challenge. I always have to work at each accent I do.
As you know, there are certain languages that lend themselves very easily to vocal use.
To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
I was too kind of brave and proud to want a dialect coach because I thought that showed weakness in my armor. But then you just learn it's a more efficient way of doing it. A dialect coach is really important because it takes a certain technical responsibility off your shoulders.
I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.