Accent Expert Breaks Down 17 Actors Playing Real People | WIRED

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Published 2019-09-16

Dialect coach Erik Singer once again takes a look at idiolects, better known as the specific way one individual speaks. Did Rami Malek do a good job speaking through prosthetics to become Freddie Mercury? How accurate was Jennifer Lawrence's Long Island accent in Joy? Did Christian Bale nail former Vice President Dick Cheney?

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Accent Expert Breaks Down 17 Actors Playing Real People | WIRED

All Comments (21)

@muhammedaly3838 4 years ago

This guy makes me feel like I'm doing my own accent wrong
@Spike-hl2mw 4 years ago

Just give this guy a whole netflix series doing these breakdowns.
@PoIapopo 2 years ago

I want him to just listen to me talk and explain exactly why I sound the way i do
@TheVictoriousShot 3 years ago

“5:15” “I got a baby on the way!” The actor delivering the line, playing his father, is referring to himself being born.
@thekingofcool2105 4 years ago

I can hear him talking about languages and dialect all day long let alone 25 minutes.
@rockfriendmemo 4 years ago

Petition to have him do every accent perfectly.
@TatsumiOga682 2 years ago

Normal people: "nah they sound nothing alike" Erik : "they took an artistic choice"
@russellthorburn9297 2 years ago

Gary Oldman is a magician. He's played so many varieties of characters with such a variety of accents to near perfection. Surely he's at least in the top five best actors that have ever lived.
@Ethernet480 4 years ago

If I had this guy’s skill, I probably couldn’t functionally watch a movie
@DiorLamour 4 years ago

The only man that can professionally ask “what that tongue do?”
@matthewstahler6525 3 years ago

When you give a linguist a shiver, you know you did something right.
@Emz1738. 2 years ago

Plot twist: He is voice-acting in this video. We'll never know what his voice is truly like.🤣
@luckyasmr1374 4 years ago

This is what I watch instead of having a social life.
@mgsbigdog9079 4 years ago

Dude! He's back! I just need a channel of just this guy!
@certifiedspacebisexual 3 years ago

i never realized how perfect claire foy’s accent was
@SP_3333 3 years ago

Gary Oldman is genius as Churchill. Erik is absolutely brilliant explaining various dialectical nuances.
@mirrrstery 4 years ago

Dear Wired, please NEVER get rid of this segment. Sincerely, The World
@SirMsuni 4 years ago

Can we please get a video of Erik Singer where you play videos of people speaking and he has to guess if that's their natural accent or not or guess what language people are speaking. Personally I would love to see this.
@charlesvigneron565 3 years ago

In the 1970s I used to listen to KGO radio, San Francisco, who would have a linguist to take calls and guess the origin of the caller. It was amazing that sometimes he would deduce the neighbourhood of a specific city by a single word.
@3ll3llyyy 2 years ago

fun fact: after bohemian, rami has a sort of lisp with his 's' sounds now.