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.'
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I just love dialects; they're really fun.
I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.
Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don't blame them. I've read books myself that I've had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache.
The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it.
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.
Trouble is, some accents lend themselves to comedy.
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.
Well, American dialects have been studied for a hundred years or so.
I have a funny accent in every language.
My whole deal when I do accents or dialects is I gotta fool the locals. If I fool the locals then I've done my job.
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