How dialect coaches put the accent on performances
Dialect coaches teach actors to sound more like the characters they're playing, accentuating the performances of such stars as Kate Winslet in "Mare of Easttown," and Rachel McAdams in "Eurovision Song Contest." Correspondent Martha Teichner talks with some of today's leading coaches for films and TV about how accents and dialects help tell a story.
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They give out so many awards, dialect coaches should be honored too!
I guess it may come down to well, should we be giving out awards to stunt and body doubles. 🤷🏻♀️
The difference is not all films need accent coach, but every film needs a makeup or designer, editing, cinematography and all the other technical awards. Also technical awards like editing, makeup, visual effects, design and stage design are actually workers showcasing their effort directly, their direct input to the film, so their own creativity is important, accent coaches really don't need creativity its about accuracy, most of the awards above have creativity which allows the fields to expand. Accent coaches are indirectly showing their work as the teach what they know to actor, the actor may or may not perfect it. So the result of accent perfection depends on 2 factors, a good coach but also the effort put by an actor- its a shared effort.
@@funkystyle7249 but enough films have dialects for there to be a category. There are awards for everything
Thank you CBS for showing diversity In this segment. So many children will see this and know this could be a viable career for them. 🙏🏾
Yes! Dialect coaches should get award recognition, in my opinion. One of the reasons I liked Sophie's Choice was how well the speech was crafted for the characters. Obviously, the skills of the performers contributed, but their guidance from the dialect coach set the foundation.
They get paid don't they?
@@joeybaseball7352 Sure, but so do costume designers, and there are awards for them.
@@DJK3115 At the end of the day it's a job. They get compensated. I don't get an award for doing my job.
@@joeybaseball7352 The awards given to various persons in the film, theater, television, and other categories in the arts are from their peers and others in their industries. They are not given by the studios or companies that pay them. My comment was that the dialect coach would be at least at the level of a costume designer. If the accents were integral to the quality and believability of a film, I think that there should be an award category for them. Also, in the business world, there are some organizations who give awards for excellence in various fields, such as the CLIO awards for creativity in advertising. The recipients are also paid by the companies for whom they work, but the companies don't give the awards.
@@DJK3115 then get all the dialect coaches to band together, and create the dialect coaches of America, and they can make an award for dialect couch of the year. There, problem solved.
My son had a speech impediment and learn to speak correctly this way and went on to be a avid reader graduated college as well! Ty for this story!
My daughter had a speech imparement that in Spanish people would say she sounded Spanish (from Spain) but where it went wrong is that she would pronounce S as a TH sound, and in English she would say for example the word Thumb she would say some. So we worked with a bilingual speech therapist and in 2 months it was all corrected. Now at 14, she speaks both languages correctly without the confusion
This is a fascinating little piece that's been a long time coming. We dialect coaches barely ever get a mention, to the point that most people don't even know we exist :)
You don't get paid?
@@joeybaseball7352 Credit and remuneration are not exclusive. Just because you get compensated for your time does not exclude you from being given a mention. There are so many people who have no clue what a dialect coach does, and some of those people are actors.
@@mdallasinto bruh they asked for a question on if you get paid because many people do not know of the job.... they never once said you shouldn't be given credit.... you must be horrible at critical thinking and interpersonal communication.
I've met people with unique accents in my time, and most of the time, I don't have any problems with it. Sometimes when I do, I try very hard not to judge or correct them, but to listen very closely to how it's all said, and understand their own paths of life and where they come from. It's always nice to know that differences among other people, can make this world a much more richer place.
Dialect coaches are amazing. I owe my 50+ year radio and TV career to Richard Poynter who turned my deep Texas drawl into a perfect Midwestern accent when I was 18-years old.
AGREE completely, dialect coach awards.
I adore CBS for doing such amazing segments!♥️
Was taking to Brit guy in Hinsdale the other day. He had lived in Australia for 6 years. Had the most interesting accent…
I have the fairly mild Wisconsin accent which is between the Minnesota/Fargo, Michigan Yooper (Upper Peninsula), and Chicago accent...it's an amalgamation of all those. I remember as a child being able to hear it and pick it up in my own voice and my family's voices...like my dad's family (my mom and dad and both their families all are from Wisconsin but different parts...one more mid/upper and one lower near the IL/WI border in the southeast part of the state.) I don't think my accent is particularly strong now but when I was with my dad at an international horse show held in LA, someone from Utah or Arizona immediately smiled and commented on my accent and how she could tell I was from a certain region or state. Everyone's accent becomes stronger when they are talking with someone from your homeland/area. The trans-Atlantic accent was considered posh and more upper class during the 30s-60s movie era and it wasn't just stars like Cary Grant, a man born in Bristol, England who had shades of a low-class Cockney accent (think Michael Caine) or even Americans from the upperclass north-east states like Connecticut such as Katherine Hepburn. She and Cary Grant made 4 films together...the clip they showed was "The Philadelphia Story"...and the two of them together are prime examples of the quintessential trans-Atlantic. Tony Curtis, from Brooklyn, idolized Cary Grant and even parodies Grant's famous accent/voice/candence in the movie "Some Like It Hot" where his co-star Jack Lemmon's character calls him out on it saying, "No one talks like that."
The job a dialect coaches is hugely neglected despite being significantly important to the authenticity of characters being portrayed. They deserve credit just like costume designers, stunt directors and those who do face make up. Hollywood needs to add this category to the list of nominees for this years’ Academy Awards. .
Do they not get paid?
The difference is not all films need accent coach, but every film needs a makeup or designer. (There is no stunt awards at Oscars). Also technical awards like editing, makeup, visual effects, design and stage design are actually workers showcasing their effort directly, so their own creativity is shown, accent coaches really don't need creativity its about accuracy, most of the awards above have creativity which allows the fields to expand. Accent coaches are indirectly showing their work as the teach what they know to actor, the actor may or may not perfect it. So the result of accent perfection depends on 2 factors, a good coach but also the effort put by an actor- its a shared effort.
I feel it's fantastic n fabbb, being a coach of language, im sure they have a love of language, 👍
A better example would've been Bob Hoskins playing Eddie Valient in Who framed Roger Rabbit. He has a cockney accent. But he is an LA detective in the movie. Brilliant performance
James Cameron said: “The score is the heartbeat of the film. All your other work on a film can come to nothing if you don't have the right music.” It’s the same with dialogue and accents. The actors are, in a sense, singing acapella.
Kate Winslet, in her prime, was a babe!!!
She’s still alive, isn’t she? That means she’s in her prime. And, she looks great.
@@trinafirey8747 being alive does t mean one is in their prime. Take a football player, for example. Are they in their prime when they are 50 or when they are 25?
This is so interesting. One reason why Richard Gear could never be considered a great actor is because in every film he ever made, he sounded like Richard Gear! He just couldn’t or wouldn’t learn accents.
My dad was born in Norwich, UK and moved to Los Angeles when he was in high school. My mom said his voice was the strangest she've heard of. I couldn't imagine.
Some of the best dialect coaches must be at UK Drama schools, just look at the original Walking Dead cast. I was blown away when I heard them interviewed
Nice work Martha. Even though I'm not a movie goer I've noticed so many film advertisements with just action, action, action. I almost think movies with people speaking to each other with just normal dialect is not that popular anymore, but I could be wrong.
Yes
I’m from Delaware county right outside of Philly.
South African Accent ... very tough to nail.
Rebel Wilson does a fantastic job at South African accents
Mmm kinda. As a south African myself im ok with her attempt.
Sooo Interesting!
Kate Winslet is the Queen of Dialects
They have a lot harder. They really should be given awards.
I wonder if Erik Singer will pop up in this...
He is the internet's dialect daddy.
Everyone needs to look up Eric Singer right now!
Oh man, I had to learn the International Phonetic Alphabet as a French major taking phonetics. It does help with knowing how to say words when you have no one to say it for you.
Hello, how are you doing?
She was more Doubtfire than Icelandic
At 4:18, someone should tell Samara Bay that Mid-Atlantic does not mean the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It means the Mid-Atlantic seaboard, i.e., NY, NJ, PA, Delaware, Virginia and West Virginia. I'm glad she makes her living teaching accents and not geography. Funny.
As a Southerner, I can tell you that there are regional accents. Hollywood makes all Southrners sound like Gomer Pyle.
Swedish subtitles are shown for Björk.
I was born and raised in rural SC - I NEED a coach who will help me learn how to speak English lol
I live in Delaware County, PA. It's really more of a "greater Philadelphia" accent.
She totally nailed the DelCo accent
If the dialog coaches need to get one so do the backstage hands and the actor stunt doubles
Haven’t heard many good Boston accents in movies/TV etc
I've always wondered why producers not just hire an authentic actor with the dialect that they seek rather than coaching someone who it's not natural to.
Er, "Mid-Atlantic" has nothing to do with the middle of the ocean. It is the proper assignation for the states from NY to Virginia. I'd love to know more about how Hollywood sourced it; I daresay the accent was an affectation of the wealthier people in those states.
Oops
Exactly
That line ruined the rest of this piece for me.
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@@BB-pi3lu Yeah, I was a little stunned when I heard it.
If you're an Irish accent coach, please reply to this. Thank you.
The British actors are masters at perfecting the Yankee accents but the Yankees not so much except Meryl Streep of course😒😄😁
Regional Accents / Dialects are quickly becoming a beautiful identity of past generations. They are an indicator of place and time ..., and of where Home is. Unfortunately, they are being lost to Annoying Upspeak / Uptalk (High Rising Terminal) & Vocal Fry. It has spread out of control like a virus. Nowadays, it's becoming more difficult to decipher where someone is from. That's NOT a good thing. How can we get these Dialect/Accent Coaches to undo this indistinguishable way of speaking so that everybody doesn't sound like clones of each other ??
STILL WAITING for Action Oscars! #standupforstunts
Welsh accent is a hard one to nail.
Just try to truly learn a foreign language and you'll have a whole new appreciation for pronunciation and accents.
Hello, how are you doing?
No one talks like that in Eastown I’m sorry.
SNL made such a big deal about the Pennsylvania accents in Mare of Eastown but really they're barely detectable.
that actress is cute
Clearly didn’t use a coach on the movie “The Trial of the Chicago 7”
It's funny. Greta Garbo had a Swedish accent whether playing Russian in Ninotchka or French in Camille. And I'd rather watch her than any contemporary actress.
*no one lives in the middle of the Atlantic* lmao
I want to see a Caucasian actor/actress nail Filipino accent. It can't be someone who is already half-Filipino.
Yet Hollywood still hires Hispanics from all over the world (puerto ricas, Colombian, Dominican, Spanish) to act Mexican characters without a Mexican accent because “they look more Mexican” (darker) than Mexican actors in Hollywood and that really ruins the viewing experience.
Shut up white woman.
@@joeybaseball7352 if u did your research, you'd know her last name is of Mexican origin
@@danielveiga7909 Her last name is Spanish (European), not Mexican. There's no such thing as a Mexican last name.
@@davidecolin right, im sure that's what i meant, i was probably buzzed when i wrote this
In Italian dubbing _all this art will be lost in time, like tears in rain._ We dub EVERY movie. I refused to watch The King's Speech in movie theaters. Waited for DVD version and watched the original version with subtitles
Second!
As the daughter of Irish parents I cringe when I hear a rotten brogue. TG for dialogue coaching.
Just make everything American.
Poor accents really takes the audiences out of the immersion, be it poor execution or poor choice. There's a fine line between paying respect and doing a caricature. I do find it interesting that, it seems to me, it is more acceptable for a non-white character to do Anglo-European accents than it is the other way around (e.g. an Indian actor doing American accent vs. a white French doing a Chinese accent).
Sooo.. linguists are face palming right about now haha
Nobody can pull off a Maine accent. They’re cringeworthy.
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