Explaining Hollywood: How to get a job as a dialect coach
Dialect coaches in Hollywood often feel invisible, but the job is becoming more important as Hollywood pursues more diverse and global storytelling.
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Dialect coaches in Hollywood often feel invisible, but the job is becoming more important as Hollywood pursues more diverse and global storytelling.
ALARM BELLS: Brendan Gunn "This is worse than the Famine," one commentator wrote. Another called it "the best film since Cats", referring to the 2019 flop. Revealing for the first time how the dialect work went so wrong, Gunn said: "The production team contacted my agent Diane Kamp in the US when I was in Bucharest working with Colin Farrell. "Originally I said I'd write out a plan for the vocal work, which I intended to get going via Skype once the Bucharest project had tapered off. Then I would go to the location in Westport for the shoot." However, he said, "the film's producers felt tha...
He is the Hollywood voice coach responsible for teaching A-list actors new accents for blockbuster movie roles.