David Tennant get's US Pilot
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I corrected it after I noticed I made the typo, but by the time I corrected it Deckerd posted a reply. I corrected it again when I responded to her, but people have just been responding to posts that have the uncorrected title.
I'm still wondering how Joe Finnes has to do an American accent on Flash Forward but Jack Davenport gets away with being pure Brit
^ Um - Fiennes is playing an American FBI agent, whereas Davenport (like Dominic Monaghan) is playing a Brit?
Quite simple really.
Quite simple really.
We now have confirmation that David will be doing an American accent for "Rex Is Not Your Lawyer".
http://twitter.com/David_Tennant/status/5475146533
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http://twitter.com/David_Tennant/status/5475146533
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WHAT?! Fiennes and DAVENPORT are on Flashforward?! And now I've discovered Soyna Walger, Courtney B. Vance, and Dominic Monaghan are also on the show! Why don't people tell me these things?
I'm still wondering how Joe Finnes has to do an American accent on Flash Forward but Jack Davenport gets away with being pure Brit
WHAT?! Fiennes and DAVENPORT are on Flashforward?! And now I've discovered Soyna Walger, Courtney B. Vance, and Dominic Monaghan are also on the show! Why don't people tell me these things?
I'm still wondering how Joe Finnes has to do an American accent on Flash Forward but Jack Davenport gets away with being pure Brit
I'm telling you now
^ Um - Fiennes is playing an American FBI agent, whereas Davenport (like Dominic Monaghan) is playing a Brit?
Quite simple really.
I know I know, but there's no reason (so far) that Daventport's character had to be British.
Re: David Tennant gets US Pilot
I saw a special with John Barrowman and when he's with his parents it's so weird to hear him talk with that accent.
because Tennant always uses his real accent in Doctor who
Um, I do realize that. I was referring to his scottish accent (which honestly isn't that different from his "english" one).
I saw a special with John Barrowman and when he's with his parents it's so weird to hear him talk with that accent.
He sounds like Ace Rimmer.
I think he'd get it down but that clip shows he could use some practice.
I've said it a million times here before - it's VERY easy for us to do an American accent because of our familiarity with it. From an early age we are bombarded with it in a barrage of tv, sitcoms, soap operas and movies.
You just lengthen your "r"s("carrrrrr", not "cah" like an Australian would say)and soften all "a"s when you would normally do the opposite("dance"[rhymes with "prance], instead of the English "dahnce")and you're good to go.
Just for the love of GOD, please, please, PLEASE never pronounce "pecan" as "pee-KHAN", the way Kate Mulgrew does, or I might have to come around to your house and rip your tongue out with my own hands.
That is just.................FUCK.
You just lengthen your "r"s("carrrrrr", not "cah" like an Australian would say)and soften all "a"s when you would normally do the opposite("dance"[rhymes with "prance], instead of the English "dahnce")and you're good to go.
Just for the love of GOD, please, please, PLEASE never pronounce "pecan" as "pee-KHAN", the way Kate Mulgrew does, or I might have to come around to your house and rip your tongue out with my own hands.
That is just.................FUCK.
EDIT: ^ Funny, 'cause I moved to Missouri from California at age 8, and even now at age 24, I pronounce it "peh-KHAN".
Well, he IS trying to read in his own accent then also do the voices of other British characters and then slip into an American accent all one after the other, so that had to have been kinda difficult.
I think if he's surrounded by American actors and having to do an American accent all the time while filming "Rex", it should be easier for him; plus I'm sure they'll give him a good dialect coach as well.
I know I've seen Hugh Laurie say once or twice in interviews that it's sometimes difficult not to slip into his native accent when he's acting against Jesse Spencer.
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Well, he IS trying to read in his own accent then also do the voices of other British characters and then slip into an American accent all one after the other, so that had to have been kinda difficult.
I think if he's surrounded by American actors and having to do an American accent all the time while filming "Rex", it should be easier for him; plus I'm sure they'll give him a good dialect coach as well.
I know I've seen Hugh Laurie say once or twice in interviews that it's sometimes difficult not to slip into his native accent when he's acting against Jesse Spencer.
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I was impressed with Sophia Myles' accent on Moonlight, and I thought Michelle Ryan did a very good accent herself on Bionic Woman.
It's when you get into trying to do a southern accent that actors run into trouble, and sometimes lapse into the overly broad Foghorn Leghorn accent. (Russell Crowe, for instance, in A Beautiful Mind.)
The accents in "Daleks in Manhattan" were variable. Doctor Who's worst American accents came in "Minuet in Hell."
The Chicago accent is nothing like the "flat, generic American" accent (which, by the way, is Philly).
I was impressed with Sophia Myles' accent on Moonlight, and I thought Michelle Ryan did a very good accent herself on Bionic Woman.
It's when you get into trying to do a southern accent that actors run into trouble, and sometimes lapse into the overly broad Foghorn Leghorn accent. (Russell Crowe, for instance, in A Beautiful Mind.)
The accents in "Daleks in Manhattan" were variable. Doctor Who's worst American accents came in "Minuet in Hell."
Mulgrew always annoys when she pronounces Equinox EE-quinox
whenever I see that word I can't help but think of the old Channel 4 Documentary show, and how it was said at the start of each show.
Re: David Tennant gets US Pilot
Philly isn't really a generic American accent. It does certain things that really aren't done anywhere else (such as pronouncing can and can differently
). Our sounds like Are, etc. People pick on how we say water, etc. It is one of the few east coast cities to pronounce Rs, however.
BTW, Pee-Can vs. Pee-Khan often has to do with either how educated you are (Pee-khan is reflective of a higher education, generally). Ee-quinox seems to be universal with most Americans.
The Chicago accent is nothing like the "flat, generic American" accent (which, by the way, is Philly).
Philly isn't really a generic American accent. It does certain things that really aren't done anywhere else (such as pronouncing can and can differently
). Our sounds like Are, etc. People pick on how we say water, etc. It is one of the few east coast cities to pronounce Rs, however.BTW, Pee-Can vs. Pee-Khan often has to do with either how educated you are (Pee-khan is reflective of a higher education, generally). Ee-quinox seems to be universal with most Americans.
^ Um - Fiennes is playing an American FBI agent, whereas Davenport (like Dominic Monaghan) is playing a Brit?
Quite simple really.
I know I know, but there's no reason (so far) that Daventport's character had to be British.
Perhaps he'll turn out to be a baddie. In which case he has to be British!
^ Um - Fiennes is playing an American FBI agent, whereas Davenport (like Dominic Monaghan) is playing a Brit?
Quite simple really.
I know I know, but there's no reason (so far) that Daventport's character had to be British.
Perhaps he'll turn out to be a baddie. In which case he has to be British!
Yup, the best baddies are British...of course the best heroes are British too
none of this would be an issue if the bloody colonials would learn to speak properly.