Voices burst from the past
After a Oscar week And their tricks, now comes a bunch of others and their tricks:
Brad Pitt, who you may have heard of once, asked to play a role in Guy Ritchie’s film Snatch. But Pete couldn’t master the Turkish accent in London, so he got One Punch Mickey instead.
Helena Bonham Carter on Brad in “Fight Club”: “I mostly couldn’t understand what he was saying. He speaks in his street voice. I think it’s his own Brad language.”
Hugh Jackman: “Before I was in X-Men, I had never heard of Wolverine.” In Canada, a man with a wolverine tattoo started choking me, saying he couldn’t understand me. “I’m Australian,” I said, and he finally let me go. Needless to say I didn’t stick around for more groceries. I just ran to get out. “
As told to E!: “It takes three months of intensive classes to permanently lose her accent. Julia Roberts lost her Southern accent a little, so she had to take dialect lessons to get it back in ‘Steel Magnolias.’”
Harrison Ford plays Russian Alexei Vostrikov in K-19: The Widowmaker. New Yorker review: “It sounds like the same sound your lawn mower makes when it passes over a rubber ball.”
Oprah asked Michael Jackson about the Elephant Man’s bones: “There was a stupid, silly story going around that I tried to buy the Elephant Man’s bones. No! I saw myself in the story and it made me cry…but I never asked for them. Where am I going to put some bones?”
In the 1995 film Mighty Aphrodite, Mira Sorvino’s accent was so inconsistent that she was amazed that Woody Allen let the film pass into post-production. But then she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress with that extraordinary voice – who knows?
Legend has it
Years before the onstage attack, Salman Rushdie said: “The annoying media is calling me an arrogant Hollywood actor because I had eyelid surgery. It was medically necessary. But then rumors came out that I wanted to be an actor. No! I’m a novelist, not an actor.”
Matt Damon: “There’s a myth that I once broke-danced for some spare cash. No. Ben Affleck’s younger brother, Casey, is making up these stories just to screw up my interviews. I’ve never break-danced in my life.”
To play JFK in “PT 109” Cliff Robertson played her without a New England accent. JFK asked him Not using the Boston pronunciation “Because I look like a silly caricature in a cheap nightclub.”
In Floyd Conner’s film “Hollywood’s Most Wanted”: “To get Linda Blair’s voice in The Exorcist every time, before she spoke, Mercedes McCambridge swallowed 18 raw eggs.”
Talkative tales
The accusations started when it hit the big time.
Andie MacDowell: “Crazy rumours. One of them is that I’m Charlie Chaplin’s illegitimate daughter. A friend sent me a newspaper confessing that Chaplin is my father. No! No! So am I.” no She’s trying to keep this a terrible secret. no!“
Boxing champion Lennox Lewis: “People say I’m gay. I’m not. I like women. I started because my mother cooked and did the laundry when I was in training camp. All the celebrities have bad mouths when they do that.”
A celebrity, bored by the attention of people who previously ignored him, works to become famous just so he can walk around with dark glasses so no one will know who he is.
Mostly in Hollywood, kids, mostly in Hollywood.