Speaker 1: Chris John O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast. It's time for knock
Speaker 1: Off Friday. You jump on the lines on nine four
Speaker 1: one four one four three. Just tell us what time
Speaker 1: you're knocking off today, What time you finishing work, whether
Speaker 1: that's in your kitchen now, there's no long commute back home.
Speaker 1: You just walk from one room to the other, or
Speaker 1: just walk to the fridge and pop open that first
Speaker 1: drink of the weekend. Or you are at work and
Speaker 1: you are going to be doing something. Let me know
Speaker 1: what time you're knocking off and what then are you
Speaker 1: going to be doing? Jack, What are you up to today?
Speaker 2: Well, I have an audition today that I have to
Speaker 2: do from my home. You have voice a voice acting
Speaker 2: audition Bluey.
Speaker 1: You a new character in Bluey.
Speaker 2: I can't say what it is. It's not Bluey, but
Speaker 2: it is an animation. And I've never been a voice
Speaker 2: actor before, so I have no idea why they approached me,
Speaker 2: but they're asking me to submit an audition. I just
Speaker 2: have to do an American accent, is all?
Speaker 1: Wait, what that's a tough accent for an Australian to
Speaker 1: put off me. In US Brits, we're allowed voice artists
Speaker 1: all over the world. I mean there's Hugh Lorrie in House,
Speaker 1: Damian Lewis in Homeland. You know, you wouldn't know who's
Speaker 1: a brit And you know, think about Christian Beoo. You
Speaker 1: know in every movie he's got an amazing American accent,
Speaker 1: but you never see even Hammersworth doesn't bother you know,
Speaker 1: it's a slight American.
Speaker 2: Actually, I can't think of any Australians doing American accents
Speaker 2: that instantly come to mind.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's the name even a crocodile Dundee. You know,
Speaker 1: in his whole Hollywood career, Sean Connery didn't eve want
Speaker 1: to try to change that Scottish accent. Even when he
Speaker 1: was a Russian submarine commander in The Hunt for Red October.
Speaker 1: It was still just a great, big Scottish bedded guy
Speaker 1: running a Russian summary. Can you audition for me and
Speaker 1: Pats now?
Speaker 2: Oh I haven't practiced yet. They only they only emailed
Speaker 2: me last night. Come on, no, you need a dry run,
Speaker 2: Come on, give us a taste. Well, sorry, I'm just
Speaker 2: trying to I'm stretching into it. I'm stretching into that.
Speaker 2: I'm stretching.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, Christian, yeah, good to speak to you. Good to
Speaker 2: speak to you, Patrini Charms. Are you trying to be He'll? Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm not trying to be anyone. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 2: trying to be anyone. I'm just trying to be Forrest Gump.
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to be an animate. It's a Daisily Jack.
Speaker 1: He's meant to have that elector surgery for them to
Speaker 1: denly thing. Yeah, maybe they want a nasal character. Maybe
Speaker 1: this is not be nasal on Bluey.
Speaker 2: The only thing it said is don't be southern or
Speaker 2: don't be in New Yorker.
Speaker 1: Just you've just done a southern.
Speaker 2: Mid Atlantic. I don't know what that means. Mid Atlantic
Speaker 2: American accent and he's Christian. I'm coming here to do
Speaker 2: a mid Atlantic. No, that is southern.
Speaker 1: You're going into Mississippi?
Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, can you guys do one and set me
Speaker 2: up and then I'll be able to do it back
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 1: I'm hopeless that those things about you. See it's a
Speaker 1: very very multicultural city, isn't it, Melbourne? Right? You get
Speaker 1: people thorn over the order. Is there an American listening
Speaker 1: right now? Who is mid Atlantic? Could you call in
Speaker 1: so Jack can at least have some idea. I love
Speaker 1: the way as well. Like for this show, the preparation
Speaker 1: is amazing. I haven't done anything yet. I've got a
Speaker 1: big audition in a couple of hours. You won't even
Speaker 1: learn Spanish of your mother and law. Someone says, do
Speaker 1: you'll earn some more money? Not really? Not really? Mops
Speaker 1: and chocolateads. Have I got the role? Who do I voice?
Speaker 1: The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast. Jack, I'm just trying
Speaker 1: to give you some tips here of how do you
Speaker 1: use your voice in different ways. You've got this voice.
Speaker 2: There, Christian. Thank you for doing that, and I agree
Speaker 2: with you on the different intonations you can put in
Speaker 2: your voice to make the same words give different meaning.
Speaker 1: Again, it's st all down sounds.
Speaker 2: It's not Southern anymore.
Speaker 1: So it is it's so southern. Jack's got a voice
Speaker 1: audition today for something and I can't obviously say what
Speaker 1: it's for, but he has to play and so it's
Speaker 1: an American voice they want you to do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a voice acting role. So I'm actually doing
Speaker 2: the audition from my home. I just send him my
Speaker 2: American voice.
Speaker 1: I have on the other son of it. When they
Speaker 1: click open this and go what guys, guys get everyone in.
Speaker 1: We've got a real I mean, they got Forrest Gumps
Speaker 1: emailed in. He's obviously got a speech impediment in this
Speaker 1: one as well. Christian, you said that Australians struggle the
Speaker 1: actors to do American accent. What about Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman,
Speaker 1: Kate Blanchet, Jackie Weaver, Rita. That's a great point, but
Speaker 1: let me read those names out against if this feels right,
Speaker 1: Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Jackie Weaver, Jack Post.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this will just be the start for me. I'll
Speaker 2: do the voice acting gig in the animation. Then I'll
Speaker 2: probably be in the next X men.
Speaker 1: All that's missing is a rocking chair and a banjo.
Speaker 2: Okay, in California, Jack in California, Kay Man in California.
Speaker 1: That's better, Actually, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Pats better? That's better? Okay, Well, no, let's get ONSTA again.
Speaker 1: He's gone over to India. On the night down. We
Speaker 1: have Marcus. Good morning, Marcus, give money, christ And how
Speaker 1: are you see? This is? This is how it needs
Speaker 1: to sound. So you're from originally from North Carolina.
Speaker 3: North Carolina, little town called lafayet, but being down under
Speaker 3: now for the best part of twenty years.
Speaker 2: Now, that sounds like does you sound like me? I
Speaker 2: thought I was getting myself back.
Speaker 1: For a second. Can you answering stout before you do
Speaker 1: the gig? Marcus has got a great accent, Marcus, and
Speaker 1: so what can you advise Jack?
Speaker 3: I think his main problem is he's trying to uh,
Speaker 3: he's trying to be in a stream speaking an American accent.
Speaker 3: So what he needs to do a little bit more
Speaker 3: effectively is punchy sentence. You know, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Speaker 3: to the same sort of extent. What we do is
Speaker 3: we finish our sence. Get it said. Let the other
Speaker 3: person speaking Jack sounds like he's always asked him questions
Speaker 3: like what are your asking to do?
Speaker 2: All right, I didn't notice we did that, So punch
Speaker 2: my sentences. So just stop abruptly.
Speaker 3: It's not not being abrupt that you're not asking question.
Speaker 3: You guys will do this thing at the end. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you do like you're asking a question. Really strange. I
Speaker 3: think you just should say what you be confident what
Speaker 3: you got to say?
Speaker 2: Okay, let me try again. My name is Jack. I'm
Speaker 2: sitting in an audition today for a voice part and.
Speaker 1: Voice broke. We pay a nine year old.
Speaker 2: My name is Jack. I'm going to be sorry, Marcus,
Speaker 2: just give me one more shock. My name is Jack.
Speaker 2: I'm going to be sitting in an audition for an
Speaker 2: animated character tonight, and I hope it goes well.
Speaker 3: Look, I think that's sound a lot better. Jack. I
Speaker 3: think you're starting to get there. Uh, same sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Be confident what you got to see. You've got to
Speaker 3: push through that sense at the moment you're sort of
Speaker 3: holding it back. You know you're gonna stuff up. They
Speaker 3: don't care. They want to know what you can do.
Speaker 3: Take directions. So take direction. I'm sure you're sentence of Jack,
Speaker 3: or get out the I love.
Speaker 1: This, Marcus. I'll get I'll get his agent's details. If
Speaker 1: I were you, I just get that you should get
Speaker 1: the gig.
Speaker 3: I'll leave out to Jack. That's your thing, Marcaus.
Speaker 2: I think I just struggle with my confidence in speaking anyway,
Speaker 2: regardless of if I'm doing an Australian accent.
Speaker 1: There there's no wallflour on this show from chap Post.
Speaker 1: You kidding? So yeah, give it again. So Marcus has
Speaker 1: helping try and sound like Marcus.
Speaker 2: Then, all right, what do you want me to talk about?
Speaker 2: Give me something to talk about.
Speaker 1: Tell us, tell us today what you had for breakfast,
Speaker 1: but in a mid Atlantic voice, or you know, South
Speaker 1: Carolina like Marcus.
Speaker 2: Well, I got up out of bed. First thing I
Speaker 2: did was made myself a smoothie. What I put in
Speaker 2: there was fruit and different things that go in a smoothie,
Speaker 2: and I drank it.
Speaker 3: Not bad, not bad. Now, just be careful, don't drop
Speaker 3: back into that southern thing, you know, the certain thing
Speaker 3: as you slow down and you drag your words out
Speaker 3: because they're so boring down there, got nothing to say,
Speaker 3: so punch your words. You'll be fine.
Speaker 1: Another way, he said, fine, say fine, He went fine.
Speaker 2: Marcus, I think with your coaching, I'm gonna just be
Speaker 2: super fun today.
Speaker 3: Ah, there you go, Now, there you go.
Speaker 1: It's in the bag, Jackie White, Marcus, you're a star.
Speaker 1: Let me send you a price. Have a good weekend,
Speaker 1: love your work, Bye guys. The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show
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