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Hi, I'm eric singer.

Eric is a dialect coach who helps actors with their accents in film and television.

Let's look at some clips, Southern accent brad, pitt inglorious bastards.

They're the foot soldiers of a jew hating mass murdering maniac and they need to be destroyed.

Tennessee accents and southern accents in general have something called Goose Fronting Good.

Which is that the vowel in words like goose, juju, humanity, humanity, cruel.

We will be cruel to the Germans is front or in the mouth.

Soju humanity cruel.

He doesn't really get that.

That's what I like to hear.

Nigerian accent will smith, concussion.

If you continue to deny my work, the world will deny my work smith is playing a real person here.

That's it.

That's all I am.

Bennet Omalu who has a somewhat Americanized Nigerian accent, so will smith playing me smith doesn't seem to be going for Apollo's voice so much as truth, kind of generalized Nigerian or african accent.

The truth listen to those th sounds in this, This is bigger than they are.

They should be dental ized this day.

This is bigger than they are impersonation of Truman.

Capote Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I'd only just handed them the final scene when the bellhop told me I had a phone call.

This is just amazing in every way.

His particular vocal quality and mannerisms are just like Capote's I think journalism can be, but I don't think create the accent is dead on perfect.

It was my stepfather joe.

Capote and the accent is totally integrated.

calling to say that my mother died.

It's integral to the character and what the actor is doing as the character.

He had quite a lot to say about us, boston accent, Michael Keaton spotlight is our town jimmy.

Everybody knew something was going on and no one did a thing.

He's going for a boston accent that has one of the stereotypical markers, which is a lot God hot val.

He says on one time, come on.

He says on the next time something was going on, he doesn't do that.

Rounding on confirmation, confirmation, confirmation, confirmation.

He should, we got to put an end to it polish accent, kate winslet jobs that you told her you weren't going to pay for Harvard.

This is really good for the most part.

Thank you.

A thing that she doesn't quite get is the oral posture.

Her mouth is very open again.

Maybe theater training, the more you open your mouth, the more sound comes out.

It's a little thing.

Have a look at johanna Hoffman's jaw.

All software developers, it's a much closer joy.

It's much higher.

Less space between the teeth, extremely easy to use.

Look at kate winslet's.

But what you make isn't supposed to be the best part of you much more open.

Meryl Streep in Sophie's choice.

Check out her jaw had a lover who was very, very good to me Belfast accent, tom Cruise far and away.

Grace isn't a tramp.

She's a dancer in the burly.

She's my sister.

You know, I'm sure this could have been better enough.

Probably wasn't given enough time to prepare.

Said that.

That's enough about sounds in like why can't you say you like my suit and hat?

Can't you say you like my hat?

Keep going all over the place.

You like my hat.

Sometimes they're close, sometimes they're just say it tom cruise.

I've earned this french accent, joseph.

Gordon?

Levitt.

The walk, the stairs going up, go back to the hotel if I'm not back in five hours.

Look for me at the police station.

So this is pretty good.

There are definitely things that could be improved.

Here's a good thing.

Listen to the vowel in stop.

They just rise and never stop.

It's not human.

Pretty dead on.

You might pull out his are sounds here as being inconsistent.

Sometimes he's got a french.

You've scaled scaled sometimes a more american sounding.

They just rise.

They just rise.

But people are inconsistent.

That's real that th sound mad with this.

This is my dream.

He nails it and it's too easy.

That's hard for a french speaker, idris Elba.

Mandela.

Long walk to freedom.

My Lord.

It is not I, but the government that should be put in the dock.

This is a great job.

Elba does a lot to capture Mandela's particular vocal characteristics and mannerism and placement, which I hope to live for.

He's actually got a little bit of a retracted a pullback tongue root.

Listen to the word prepared.

I am prepared as opposed to prepared.

I am prepared prepared prepared.

We call that the square lexical set.

It should be a mon a thong for Mandela and Osa accents generally, whereas elba makes it a different.

I plead not guilty southern accent.

Nicolas cage.

I got nothing in common with them with you.

They were insane.

It's my daughter's birthday today.

I don't know what happened to the actors prep here.

My first thought would be a lot.

This doesn't really hit any of the marks.

Southern accents have vowel breaking in words like creep and freak.

They somehow managed to get every creep and freak in the universe means there's a little wiggle, creep and freak, creep and freak.

Also a vowel in words like playing onto this one plane should start lower.

You're not hearing any of that wasn't my fault.

Wyoming texas accents, jake Gyllenhaal Heath ledger, Brokeback mountain.

Have you been to Mexico Jack twist because I hear what they got in Mexico for boys like you.

Hell yes, I've been to Mexico Gyllenhaal nails.

His Wyoming accent here.

Listen to the vowel in one and once how it's all the way back in his mouth.

I did once, I did once.

You can also hear it in a couple of high altitude fucks a couple of high altitude Fulks once or twice a year.

I love heath's performance here.

I ain't joking.

The characters tightness and repression and kind of struggle with himself is mirrored in his posture.

Nothing from nowhere.

Look the way his jaw and his lips are held tight all the time.

You can even see him listening through that posture.

Why don't you just let me be?

Huh?

English accent, kevin Costner, Robin Hood, Prince of thieves.

The sheriff calls us outlaws.

But I say we are free.

So this is like the paradigm of bad movie accents.

This is the one everybody brings up for good reason and faced with the price where it may be dear.

He can't make up his mind whether to leave the arson or take them out is more powerful than 10 hired soldiers.

Nothing's right here.

Then I say we can win Creole accent Leonardo.

Dicaprio blood diamond you get for pay me first for them.

You get one more dead body instead of airplane way full with grenade launcher.

Dicaprio is speaking a West african creole here called Creo.

Then government at least them go pay me an old rotten rotten against them.

Government troops against them?

Government troops.

It's a creditable job, but this no fine.

It's a little marred by some West indian intonation.

Are you chris otherwise it's pretty good.

Are you chris, David?

Oyelowo.

Selma for we shall be victorious in our quest.

We shall cross the finish line.

David's not doing an impersonation.

It's more of an evocation, which means he's just suggesting this very familiar voice.

Listen to how much of his vocal range martin Luther.

King JR actually uses a man dies when he refuses to stand up and compare it to David.

Oyelowo across the finish line.

Not quite the same Baltimore accent, idris, elba the wire.

You're not gonna bring that corner bullshit up in here.

You hear me?

I want this to be true business.

This is amazing.

Elbow was working on this accent for years.

One thing this accent doesn't have is a really interesting Baltimore specific african american pronunciation of words like to you.

What do you do follow through?

What about you?

What you can hear from other actors in the same show who are actually Baltimore natives.

Listen to prop, joe nail it.

My nephew, my nephew, japanese accent, mickey, Rooney breakfast at Tiffany's.

You disturbing me.

You must have a key.

Me, Let this happen, vintage new york city accent.

Daniel Day.

Lewis, gangs of new york and I want you to go out there.

You nobody else to punish murdering this poor little rabbit.

It's always tough to do a historical accent.

Do you go for absolute accuracy at the risk of alienating the audience and making it inaccessible.

You may have misgivings, but don't go believing that Jack and I think he walks the line brilliantly here, the tip of his tongue hits a different place hits his teeth, which is characteristic of a new york accent.

Tell me, tell me, tell me this charge.

Does it sit uneasy with you.

He also gets a lot of nasal into the accent.

What in heaven's name are you talking about?

Still maintains a lot of color and expression.

Help yourself to some decent meat on the way out, Scottish accent.

Mel Gibson Braveheart.

And I see a whole army of my countrymen dear in defiance of tyranny.

I think maybe Gibson gets a bad rap for this performance.

Yes, I've heard it does slip out.

Why does it go?

But when it's on, it's pretty good.

For example, fight and you may die.

Run and you'll live.

That's pretty good.

I'll give you thanks Russian accent.

Viggo Mortensen.

Eastern promises if you can prove baby was his and girl was underage.

That is statutory rape, Mortensen does a pretty creditable job here, but please, it doesn't feel quite integrated.

It's a little general for a poetic reasons.

It's not that the sounds are off.

They're all pretty good.

It just feels a little stiff and a little careful.

The accent hasn't quite settled in yet.

Thank you.

Not like a real person speaking.

I don't know what you're talking about.

Afrikaans accent.

Matt Damon Invictus, please.

Mr President.

It makes complete sense to me in the bus.

On the way to the stadium, nobody talks Damon prepped really well for this role.

And it's just a great job on an accent that's usually really hard for americans.

There's always something to pick on.

Listen to the line that has chosen and no in it, something I've chosen one, we all know nails that valve the first time, something I've chosen not so much.

The second time when we all know Paraguayan accent, Jon voight, anaconda never look in the eyes of those who kill, they will haunt you forever.

I have no idea what that accent was.

I know Cate Blanchett, the aviator neurologist, but it's all tied up inside the body, don't you find?

So this is a great evocation of Katharine Hepburn's particular idi elect.

If I had to quibble with it, I'd say that Blanchett relies really strongly on Hepburn's timber and into you're deaf.

She doesn't quite have the pasture.

She has a very open job perhaps from her theater training.

If you're deaf, you must own up to it as opposed to the sort of high, tight and slightly forward job that Katharine Hepburn had women and men simply are not the same.

Men gotta be friends with women.

Howard, They're just not the same English accent.

Angelina Jolie Maleficent, I really felt quite distressed at not receiving an invitation.

So julie is going for a slightly old fashioned, very posh english accent here.

Well, what we call received pronunciation and she does a great job of it.

Oh dear, listen to the way she says the words, royalty, royalty, nobility, nobility, gentry, gentry and those short ending sounds.

You don't really hear that in english accents anymore.

How quaint Russian accent, john Malkovich rounders and in my club I will splash the pot whenever I please respect.

Is wolf, you have left in the morning.

So Russian speaking english will sometimes stick a little yet sound in alligator blood.