WEBVTT - Your Voice is a Superpower with Samara Bey 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:05.680 Everybody. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:07.440 This is Freddie Rodriguez. 0:00:07.160 --> 0:00:11.440 And Wilmer about the rama. Welcome to those amigos. We're back. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:12.879 We're back episode two. 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:13.240 Baby. 0:00:13.600 --> 0:00:17.040 That's how fascinating she are it required a second episode. 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.840 Samara, she's a coach. 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:31.800 She's a Coacha is a very very giftedll coach, someone 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.120 that really helped me in the earlier years actually mid 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:39.880 years of my career. And we were talking about, uh, 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:45.800 the way you help leaders and actors convey story uh. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:49.360 And in the same subject, the simplistic version that I 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:53.360 tell myself is the more prepared I am, the less 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.920 pit stops I have to make in order to make 0:00:55.960 --> 0:00:56.480 my point. 0:00:57.400 --> 0:00:58.840 The pit stop is the like. 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:03.160 Uh, these are the pit stops that you're like you 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:06.280 because you're trying to piece it together. Now, not all 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.320 conversations require you to stop your arms. 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:10.959 Like right, like you're talking to people. It is what 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:11.319 it is. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:16.520 But what I found myself and I'm curious to see 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:21.000 you know, for you as a storyteller, as a you're 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:22.839 one of the smartest people I've ever met in my life. 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:25.120 You're also like you as one of the best spoken 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:28.600 people I've ever talked, you know, and you know and 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.840 also You're one of the most brilliant actors I've ever 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.440 seen in my life. This guy has been able to 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:38.120 to uh, you know, to really and I'm trying to 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:43.080 really sound smart there you see that, Okay. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:43.440 I'm getting. 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.640 What I'm saying is like the idea that you have 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.480 to portray these characters that for the most part, you're 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.240 leading the story, you're driving us forward. And now I 0:01:52.240 --> 0:01:54.120 don't want to say anything, but you're gonna play a 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.920 different ethnicity guy that's absolutely so far removed from who 0:01:57.920 --> 0:01:59.600 you are, that that's going to be the next role 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:00.200 you're gonna take. 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:01.760 The people are going to be blown away by. 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:07.320 And you are going to have to learn the accent 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:13.279 and in the actual language, yes, to. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.600 A place in the world that you've probably never been. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:16.440 Maybe you haven't, you know, through the years, but like, 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.480 but you've never lived there to understand why those dialects 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.160 and why then you know where they come from. So 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:26.760 so for me, the thing that I realized the more 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:30.120 I understood, I used to say, like, and I'm so 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.400 much more back in the day when I was trying 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:35.840 to fit into so many smart conversations because I. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:37.640 Knew I had an opinion about the things that was 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:38.240 being said. 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:41.320 But I've never communicated with those rooms before, so I 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:44.079 thought I had to really take my time in putting 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:50.400 these sentences together. So like, for example, you know, I 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.959 had to search my words more often than I could. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:54.880 If I was just kind of flowing. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:03:01.600 The more confidence I became in what I exposed myself to. 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.440 The Easter was to take those things out right. The 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:08.639 other thing is like you're. 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.359 Telling you talk about in your subject, but I look 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:14.600 for you, Freddie, what has it? Does this relate to you? 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.160 Does it trigger any emotion or memory or anything? 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:18.480 Sure? 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.960 Yeah, I'm from Chicago, right, And my first movie I 0:03:21.960 --> 0:03:24.680 had to have a dialot coach because my Chicago accent, 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.959 which you can probably still hear, I'm told still there. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.280 So I was nineteen years old. I was on the 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.120 set of a pretty big movie and it was my 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:33.760 first movie. 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:34.320 Was the movie. 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:36.240 It was called The Walk in the Clouds and it 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:37.840 took place in the nineteen thirties. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:42.040 And here I was just like Chicago urban like street kid. 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.760 All of a sudden thrust it into this movie with 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.880 like Anthony Quinn and Caanu Reeves and gian Carlo Janini, 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.240 and I had to sound like a kid who went 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.800 to Stanford in the nineteen thirties, and it was it 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.560 was incredibly difficult, and had I had a dialog coach 0:03:57.600 --> 0:03:59.400 for like three months while I was on that side, 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:01.720 who was who's doing everything? You just said, you know, 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.040 I do a take and they would come and whisper 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.480 in my ear and her eye was. It was like 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:08.800 the first time I was ever in front of cameras 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.760 like that or around big actors like that. So it 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.080 was really I want to say it was difficult, but 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:15.000 it was a lot to process as like a nineteen 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:19.760 year old kid. And so I've had dialogue coaches. That 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.599 wasn't the first time. You know, my action has always 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.159 been really difficult to overcome. 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:26.559 I never knew that about you. 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.359 Yeah, yeah, I mean you can hear it right, like 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:31.159 you know, this is sort of how I sound. 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:35.880 You know, I'm not here diagnosed. 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:38.559 Yeah right. 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:44.479 And so when we was saying I I haven't announced 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.920 it yet, but I'm about to play someone who's who's 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:50.800 of German descent, and I was like me and they 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:54.400 were like, yeah you And I was like, okay, give 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:55.200 me a dialart coach. 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:57.200 And so I'm. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:58.520 Supposed to be starting with one. 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:03.359 I don't quite know who it is someone who's sitting 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:07.080 across from me right now, and so it's. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.080 Gonna be nuts. Nudge. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:16.560 Did you want Lucille Ball? 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:18.800 Can you teach with the Lucille Ball accent? 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:20.000 Uh? 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:20.960 Yeah? 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.760 So so it's I've been struggling with it for a 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.479 long time too. I mean I've gone into rooms. I 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.039 remember in the nineties, I would audition and they would say, 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:32.960 he sounds a little too urban, you know, man, I 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:36.760 I had read for something, you know, geez, like like 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.760 eight years ago and then and the guy was from 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:44.360 Chicago and they were like, oh, he just sounded too urban. 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.440 And I was like, what do you mean from Chicago? 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:51.040 I sounded like, oh, I sounded And so my accent 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.400 has always been something that's been a little bit. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.200 Of a thorn on my side throughout my career as well. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.680 Yeah, I find that a lot of the work I 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:00.680 do with people, whether it's in the hull onllwoold realm 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:04.480 or in business, is often unpacking some of those early 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.320 comments or early you know, like judgments that were thrust 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.839 on us. Often it's like people go back to like 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:14.680 second grade, Oh really their parents there's you know, it's 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.120 like trauma attached to it. There is, and it's like 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.159 it's like subtle enough, like lowercase T trauma that you 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:22.920 kind of can go like, why am I not over it? 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:25.720 That's what it is. And then I give people permission 0:06:25.720 --> 0:06:29.040 to be like, let's just honor that not only are 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:30.800 you not over it, because it's like real and it 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:32.719 wasn't being able to get processed. But now there's like 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:35.680 this added level of like self shame of why did 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:37.560 I let that get to me? Why did I let 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:39.240 that one guy in second grade who said that my 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:42.520 voice is annoying get to me? What's wrong with me? 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:44.880 And so many of us do that, and it's like 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.359 the spiral around our voice. And this is why I 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.000 wrote this book and I sold it in this like 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.280 crazy bidding war at the top of the pandemic because 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:52.320 I just feel like no one. 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:55.680 So there's a therapy aspect attached to what you do 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:56.159 as well. 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.560 I mean, listen, I. 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:02.919 Mean said therap but here's how I here's how I 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:08.680 say it. There is inevitably an element of therapeutic as 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.720 to this, which means healing. You know. It's like, yeah, 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.560 ultimately we're just like, oh god, my mom said that 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:19.560 to me, I really, like, you know, internalized it. I 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.640 forgot it came from that source and she has her 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:23.960 own stuff, and I just thought it was a truth 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.960 about me. Oh wait, do I need to keep that 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:28.720 story going? Is that helping me? Is it helping the 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:32.000 next generation? Is it helping my kid? Me continuing to 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:33.880 carry that burden of in this case, you know, like 0:07:33.880 --> 0:07:37.200 my voice is annoying or whatever. Who's that helping? Is 0:07:37.200 --> 0:07:40.280 that helping me? Like, like, do my best legacy work 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.239 in the world? If not, what can I like lovingly 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:44.000 do to release that? 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:45.520 So how do you how do you hand I mean, 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.160 that's not part of what you signed up for, right, 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:52.120 So how do you handle sort of you're coaching somebody, 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:53.040 all of a sudden. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:53.480 They break down. 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:56.640 They're like in the second grade somebody you know, and 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.040 then all of a sudden that they go right, the 0:07:59.120 --> 0:07:59.520 trauma was. 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.120 Released, Say, I love those moments, but I kind of 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:03.280 loved those, But. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:04.520 How do you how do you handle that? 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.040 You were clearly like you know what they say, like 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.520 shamed dies in the light. It's like once they know it, 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.080 I don't need to do anything. Now we're like you 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.000 that's a thing. Hey, that's a thing. 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.320 Yeah, I had to undo a bunch of stuff the 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:24.600 beginning because when I was, when I became an actor, 0:08:25.200 --> 0:08:28.120 if you had an accident in school, you were seen 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.720 as inferior, as uneducated. If you had an accent, you 0:08:31.720 --> 0:08:34.720 were uneducated, even though I was a straighted student, because 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:39.280 in Venezuela. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.760 There was two years ahead, you know. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.800 When I got here, I had traded to and I 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:44.280 didn't even have to speak English to me, but thought 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.000 I was cheating. I think we talked about it on 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:50.440 the show before, and I had an accent. So people 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.760 are like, how is you how you even like acing 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:53.520 the test? 0:08:53.600 --> 0:08:56.520 I'm like, it's math, like like I mean you know, 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:58.079 or so on and so on. 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:05.040 But question for you when it comes to nationalities and 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:11.040 all that, what is the common thing that Latino speakers 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.040 you don't have to undo in order to embrace an 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:15.880 American accent? 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:18.480 And I'm and I'm asking for a friend. I'm asking 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:19.040 for a friend. 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:23.080 Okay. The main thing with the main thing with Spanish 0:09:23.120 --> 0:09:29.640 speakers is that y'all have five vowels. And although in 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:33.000 the written English we look and we say we see ae, 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:36.680 I ou sure, maybe we have five two if you 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.640 think about it, and like dialect alert here I'm getting, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:41.720 I'm gonna get, I'm gonna get technical because you asked it. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:45.520 You know, even for the letter A alone in English, 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:47.400 if you see it in a word, you don't know. 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:52.520 It has five different pronunciations, the letter A. So it 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:56.439 can be all like about alc apple, all like father, 0:09:56.760 --> 0:10:01.600 all like awesome, or a like. 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:06.200 Eight mm hmmm. And so that's confusing. 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.760 That's a lot. And when it comes to some of 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.160 those sounds, they exist or some version of them exists 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.640 in Spanish. Right, the a father is like our closest 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:17.120 American version to the ah. But then what's what happens 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.920 when you get to a apple? So for a lot 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:25.000 of Spanish speakers, they're they're, they're there. English is amazing, right, 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:27.040 this is not about this is no judgment on their 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.240 right acquisition of English. But if they always say apple 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.400 and now they have to go a apple. And now, 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:37.680 by the way, for American speakers out there, we also 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:40.839 do an uglier a a in front of an er 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.920 and emorin ng sounds. So we go like ah, like family. 0:10:44.000 --> 0:10:46.760 And if we go at apple family, people think we're 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:51.120 English British family. That's that's what I mean West. That's 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:55.040 almost all of the US almost uses that little tiny 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:57.400 dialect thing, and it's almost to tell if you don't 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:01.199 use it. So you say a family, family, it's a scandal. 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.120 Where's she from? She does not sound like she's from anywhere. 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.840 She sounds she's in like neutral land right anyway? 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.040 So we three hundred teaching teaching what a movie three 0:11:11.120 --> 0:11:14.400 hundred where they're just like, we're from what is that Atlantic? 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:14.800 What is it? 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:15.040 Was? 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.440 Mid Atlantic Atlantic, which is like British Buddy's not. 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.640 It's a made up nineteen thirties accent where everybody sounds fancy, 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.000 but not from anywhere the middle of the Atlantic where 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:28.240 there's no land exactly exactly. 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:31.760 Oh my god, she's from somewhere like lower of the rings. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:33.559 Right exactly exactly fairy sound. 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:36.880 I've had to audition with that accent before, didn't know it. 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:39.760 Did you call me? 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:42.520 You know? 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:43.280 One of my. 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:47.319 Dreams is my one of my dreams is to perfect 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:48.920 a British accent. 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.520 I don't know why. I've always been like. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.280 Why because the bridge come here and they get the 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:55.000 American action? 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:56.719 Yes, yes, because I. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.920 Feel like it's just as if I go get James Bond, 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:02.840 you know, the Brits in the Australians get all the 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.880 all American. You know, thank god for Chris Evans because 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:10.120 he finally was Captain America. But everybody else is Australian 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.760 and British, you know, playing these American comic book heroes. 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:14.760 You know, you think you can do a British accent. 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:15.280 I don't know. 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:23.360 I know I can't, And that's why I know I can't. 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:23.320 I can't. 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.280 I can't. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.240 Have you considered maybe you have a person, like a 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:32.319 specific person with a British accent that you could Craig. 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:34.920 Have you listened to him? Have you like repeated back? 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:37.280 You know, but he's so. 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.360 But the thing about his accent is he he's so 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:44.480 settled it almost doesn't sound British anymore. Have you heard 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:47.800 the last couple of James Bonds, They're like, his accent 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:50.520 is he's there in a couple of ways, you know, 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:54.800 where he just kind of, you know, kind of undertones it. 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.120 But you know, but there's other characters that it's heavy. 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.560 So if I were to just like prod a tiny bit, 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:03.560 you might want to find someone else who also feels 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:05.640 more like your vibe. I mean, I'm not saying you 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:07.320 don't give Daniel kredit. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:09.000 That's not what I'm asking. 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.680 But I'm just I mean, but I'm but I'm just saying, 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.680 like it is fun, unlocks something. 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:14.320 But you asked me. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.600 What I dare you and I would love it. What 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.480 What is the James Bond accent? I mean, Pierce President, 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:25.520 who have coached is Irish and he did he went 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:28.240 for like a straight British sound, right, It's not like 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:29.679 he just brought his natural accent, but. 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:31.720 He's from there, so he grew up with all those 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.640 influences around him, right, So it's like the British grow 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:39.280 grows up with all Hollywood movies, so they're therefore they 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:40.960 they understand. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.880 And you know many of them use dialect coaches. 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:46.120 Well for sure, but I will also say that they 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.920 grew up watching these movies, so they can imitate until 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:52.040 then they coach to kind of perfect. I've never had 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.920 to imitate a British accent because the first half of 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:59.440 my life I was watching everything that had a different 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:04.040 accent and English in Spanish, right, so everybody had a 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.720 Latino accent when I was growing up, even James Bond and. 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.959 Even Americans don't grow up watching British materials, so. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:15.920 Like, yeah, also, this is a pitch, you know, that's 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:20.920 the next that's the next bond sound. I think we're ready. 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:25.040 For for a lot of accent, for a little bonello, 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:26.560 a little spice. 0:14:26.680 --> 0:14:34.320 Who are you got a mellow bond? 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.040 I think we really welcome to. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:39.880 This is a little bond. 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:41.520 Who is this? 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:44.160 I don't know, but that you said it's ready for 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:58.160 a new direction. I'm giving the narrative. So speaking of 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.000 British accents, just bringing it back. 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:07.560 So the the I A e ou there's They pronounced 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.560 those a lot more closer to what Latino does right 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:16.400 in a way to way like ah a if. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:18.720 That helps you as a bridge, I don't want to 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:19.440 take it away. 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:20.640 Bridge, But it's more like. 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.960 You're just saying because they do pronounce the words like 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:24.760 over here you said you we have those five for 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.680 the A. Yeah, it seems like they're pretty consistent with 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:29.120 their No. 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:30.360 They've got the same it's just that they don't do 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:33.760 that that ugly family. But yeah, it'd be like family. 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:35.880 The apple sound. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:38.440 Is just uh, we say can't. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.120 We say can't and they say can't. But that's the 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:43.680 awe sound like father father. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.080 So is that the key to learning that action is 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:47.440 learning where the inflections go. 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.280 Oh, there's so many parts. Okay, there's so many parts. 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:54.000 When we're learning English as a first language from another 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.080 part of the world. So this is Australian and British 0:15:56.120 --> 0:16:00.000 and Irish and Scottish, South African. It's the most complicated 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.760 that the most sounds change constants and vowels. So you know, 0:16:04.320 --> 0:16:05.720 the question is like, what would be some of the 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:07.480 main ones that you could focus on. I love what 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:11.760 you're saying with kant. This is technically called the ask list. 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:14.840 It's literally just a list of words. It's like three 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:18.680 pages of words that like the word ask. In American 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.760 English we would say apple ask and in British they 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.600 would say, oh, father osk and they don't even know. 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.200 I mean, I don't want to speak for all British people, 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:28.680 but I've talked to it and they don't realize that. 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:32.360 They say can and kan't. 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:33.880 They don't hear it. They don't hear it. 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.520 I'm like, is the word castle on the ask list? 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.280 And they're like, castle, Yeah, what's the list? 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:40.520 Right? 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:43.960 It's like, oh, okay, right, right right. But the main 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.240 thing is the RS. So I don't This is like 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.320 way technical. But the rs at the ends of words 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:53.000 in English, in American English and in British English are 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.480 actually vowels. They're not the same our our mouth doesn't 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.320 do the same thing as a beginning are. So like 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.720 the word red, do the word red, river field, what's 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:01.240 happening your mouth redd? 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:01.480 Right? 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.800 Like what's happening? There's like a coming together everything red. 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:06.520 If we did that at the end of the word father, 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:10.320 we would end up with father. It's like a it 0:17:10.320 --> 0:17:13.159 would be a it's a dialect father. So what are 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:13.760 we really doing? 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:14.080 Father? 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:18.040 Or our mouth stays open? The definition of a vowel. 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:19.560 Can't believe IM talking about this, you guys, This is 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:23.399 like no, Yes, definition of a vowel is that your 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:25.520 mouth stays open and sound keeps coming out. This is 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.080 why we can sing on vowels. So if your mouth 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:29.800 is staying open on they are on the end of father, 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.399 it's a vowel father, or just has some what we 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:37.160 call our color father, unless our color would get you father, 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:38.560 that's British. 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.800 What would be some initial exercises that you do with 0:17:42.800 --> 0:17:45.000 with with actors when you first start working. 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:46.720 With I mean, I kind of build the exercises based 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.639 on what they need, because often certain sounds are just 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.240 like oh I got that, and I'm like, we don't 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:51.960 need to be a dead. 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.879 Like do you remember do you remember the exercises? What 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.520 did we do the pencil? 0:17:58.440 --> 0:17:59.240 Did you do the pencil? 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.240 Yeah, so it's just like you put. 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.959 The pencil here and make sure that your mouth is 0:18:04.480 --> 0:18:05.680 so wet in between your teeth. 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.080 Just activated, It activates, you know. The main thing that 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.200 happens is that we're all used to how we sound, 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.320 like right, but we're all used to how we sound. 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.080 So certain muscles get used and the other muscles are like, no, 0:18:15.119 --> 0:18:15.440 I'm good. 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:16.520 Yeah, I've never. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:18.520 Been activated in the last twenty years. And then here 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.080 we are being like, let's activate those muscles, and so 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:22.920 doing a pencil or a cork like. 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:24.920 From okay, so what does that do if you put 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:26.040 a pencil in between your teeth? 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:28.679 What's to just work a little harder? 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:30.320 Now I have to like really do it. You're not 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:31.480 gonna you're not gonna have a. 0:18:31.480 --> 0:18:33.840 Pen because because you're exercising certain. 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.359 Most yeah, yeah, it's just part of a warm up. 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:40.639 Also, honestly, I also phone, especially when I do a 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.320 lot of the procedural stuff. I just got to warm 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.560 up my vocals. You can't come in and just you know, 0:18:46.960 --> 0:18:50.560 do it cold. So I you know a lot of 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:51.680 the jaw exercises. 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.119 Yeah, you know. 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:56.640 I like to joke that I have a long history 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:58.400 of telling movie stars what to do with their tongues, 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.560