How do They Do it?

You have to remember that they don't do the whole movie in one take, and they take classes to be able to speak that way, which is why they make the big bucks.

One movie I had trouble with because of an actor;s accent was Revolution. Al Pacino narrates the beginning of the movie and his first line was "We wuz comin' down the ribba". Did they have Bronx accents in 1776? One actress who I have wondered about her accent is Amanda Tapping. She was born in England but moved at an early age to Canada. In the TV show Stargate SG1 she has an American (or North American) accent but later in the show Sanctuary she has an English accent. I do think that an actor should try to adopt the accent of the nationality of the character he is playing or just not do the role. I saw a movie starring Ron Lowe where it took me a half hour before I realized he was playing the role of Sean Dillon, who is the Irish hero of the Jack Higgins novels. Lowe made no attempt at doing an accent.

Let us remember that Hugh Laurie who plays House is British... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Laurie

SOme get voice coaching to learn the accent. They stay in character while doing their acting and so some may think them alittle weird. Acting can be alittle strange because of such things as this. And every actor has a different way of keeping the accent going throughout filming.

Actors have a great versatility and they rehearse many times for each scene. One tends to think that their lives are ool, but it is a lot of hard work. I remember an English actor who make a movie in which he was a man from Kentucky. Jusy imagine! He did it very well, by the way.

So, try to understand. You are watching a movie to your liking through your laptop. You do not know the title of this movie. The only thing that you noticed is that an actor of that drama, has the typical Boston accent. You do not know how to maintain this accent throughout the movie, but sometimes it could be dubbed actors. There you'd probably already thought of that? In Italy we have journalists from all over the country, but no one has the typical accent of his place of origin. I was told that study specifically to remove every accent, before talking about the news. This, too, in your case it might be a other hypothesis.

I think in the movies they do very many cut scenes where they re-do the scene over and over again if it's bad. So it must be hard for the actors if they are not experienced with it, especially when they have to re-do it over and over for a long time...