RSC head of voice: “I want actors to use their own accents”

Re:RSC head of voice: “I want actors to use their own accents” by notzuck on Sunday October 14, 2018 @07:23AM (#18212398)

I feel the same about American accents. Sometimes they talk so fast, fail to annunciate and it sounds like they have something in their mouths.

I'm a Brit living in Australia.

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Re:RSC head of voice: “I want actors to use their own accents” by leephillips on Sunday October 14, 2018 @10:25AM (#18213008)

I have the same problem with many American movie actors, and I'm an American. Watch a movie from the 1940s. There was a standard of enunciation that seems to have disappeared. But there are plenty of exceptions, actors who take that part of their craft seriously: James Spader for example. Every word of every whisper is easily understood.

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Re:RSC head of voice: “I want actors to use their own accents” by jfk13 on Sunday October 14, 2018 @09:08AM (#18212691)

> fail to annunciate

I think you mean "enunciate".

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