Looks like the big job I was expecting fell through. I was in negotiations to do all the Pacific Rim promo stuff for ESPN. It's actually a relief in one sense because I would have had to lie to them for a whole year and pretend that I am actually Australian. It wasn't the fear of not carrying it off that worried me (that part is easy) but actually having to lie to people I would have to work with every day for a whole year or more.
I know it's all part of being a whore (which we all are in my business) and I would have done it because it would have paid a LOT. Still it makes me queasy when my agent tells me "Oh and by the way you are English" or "Oh by the way you are Irish" or German or French or whatever.
Dialects and accents are what I do. (I write this as though someone is actually going to read this
) I just wish the folks on the production end of things could wrap their brains around the idea that its acting and you don't have to be French to sound French, etc..
I hate falseness in people. So it is especially troublesome for me when I am put in a position where I have to be false.
Anyway... when I heard yesterday that the clients in Australia felt that I was just a little too Americanized (which, in retrospect, I think I did on purpose) I breathed a sigh of relief. It's also not like there isn't plenty of other work out there where I can just be me. I also won't be tied to my home studio every day (I was sort of regretting the fact that I wouldn't be able to go to France as I had planned later this year.) So it's all good.
Well, time to head out. My li'l buddy has swim class in an hour.
I know it's all part of being a whore (which we all are in my business) and I would have done it because it would have paid a LOT. Still it makes me queasy when my agent tells me "Oh and by the way you are English" or "Oh by the way you are Irish" or German or French or whatever.
Dialects and accents are what I do. (I write this as though someone is actually going to read this
) I just wish the folks on the production end of things could wrap their brains around the idea that its acting and you don't have to be French to sound French, etc..
I hate falseness in people. So it is especially troublesome for me when I am put in a position where I have to be false.
Anyway... when I heard yesterday that the clients in Australia felt that I was just a little too Americanized (which, in retrospect, I think I did on purpose) I breathed a sigh of relief. It's also not like there isn't plenty of other work out there where I can just be me. I also won't be tied to my home studio every day (I was sort of regretting the fact that I wouldn't be able to go to France as I had planned later this year.) So it's all good.
Well, time to head out. My li'l buddy has swim class in an hour.
I actually do SR (Brittish Standard Recieced) and about 15 regional dialects not counting Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Not to brag (but hey why not this is my journal after all) but I also do about 5 French dialects 6 or so German/Austrian/Swiss, a few Russian, Afrikaaner, and some Austrailian as well as a number of Dialects that I don't get to use anymore because of political correctness in VO. I also coach dialects for actors here in LA. (Just coached a buddy for a Carribean job)
Oh and a variety of American regional as well. It's a fun way to make a living I gotta say.