Tag: Accents
-
Breakout Role: Edward Norton in “Primal Fear” (1996)
A fellow Boston-born actor, Edward Norton, made his film debut in 1996 with Primal Fear beating out 2, 100 other actors for the role, including Matt Damon. Apparently,” When Norton met with the director for Primal Fear (1996), he told them that he, like Aaron, came from eastern Kentucky. Norton even spoke with the twang,…
-
Acting with An Accent: British
Some actors are really really good at accents: Daniel Day-Lewis, Meryl Streep, Toni Collette, Kate Winslet, Hugh Laurie, Gwenyth Paltrow, & Johnny Depp–just to name a few. One of the most basic accents that we learn in acting school is the British accent and its many forms: RP (received pronunciation: think the BBC version of…