Let me say right up front that I’m from Boston. So maybe it bothers me more than most to see so many actors butcher my hometown dialect. But seriously, why is it so damn hard to do a convincing Boston accent? I was reminded of this recently watching Leonardo DiCaprio mangle his vowels in Shutter Island. You’d think that after laying waste to his Beantown accent in The Departed, someone might have pulled him aside and given him a few tips or gotten him to a Red Sox game, where he could drink a few frosties with the...
- 7/16/2010
- by Chris Nashawaty
- EW.com - PopWatch
Jess Platt refers to them as "da boys." He's speaking about Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig, who raked in mucho money on Broadway earlier this season in a limited run of "A Steady Rain," for which the Brooklyn-born, Los Angeles–based Platt served as dialect coach. Having worked with Jackman on several movies, Platt was requested by the sometime Wolverine to help him and the sometime James Bond master Chicago accents for the Second City cops they played in Keith Huff's drama.So here was Platt—who admits, "I'm not cheap"—assigned to make an Englishman and an Australian sound like geographically specific Middle Americans. And note that his technique is applicable to any situation in which an actor from one place must acquire the sounds of a distinctive other place. As Platt says, "There is no such thing as not having an accent. Everybody has an accent."Platt,...
- 1/20/2010
- backstage.com
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