I think those are all good points. I wouldn't be working on an accent before the point of polishing a role, unless the accent were so integral to the nature of the role that it must come before other small details; Brad Pitt's role in Snatch could not have been done accent-free, and if I were rehearsing such a part I wouldn't want to leave the accent to the end.
Many of our players in Henry did put on one accent or another, both for the regional reasons you mention and in a couple of cases to stress class differences. However, I think you're right that even so Harry could come off as weirdly different from his countrymen. I was thinking as much on what one could do in an ideal world as on what one might drop in oneself without mentioning to anyone else.
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Re: Two thoughts...
Date: 2009-06-11 02:51 pm (UTC)Many of our players in Henry did put on one accent or another, both for the regional reasons you mention and in a couple of cases to stress class differences. However, I think you're right that even so Harry could come off as weirdly different from his countrymen. I was thinking as much on what one could do in an ideal world as on what one might drop in oneself without mentioning to anyone else.