[ SECRET POST #4948 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4948 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I suppose my feeling is that a primary skill for actors is the use of their voice. Modulating it, making it whisper or purr or crack. And mastery of accents kind of... comes with that skillset? Or should do?

Or to put it another way, Patrick Stewart and David Tennant, as the first white actors that came to mind, are both well capable of code-switching from their birth dialects to other accents as the part requires.

And we can talk about their regional dialects being considered less "neutral" or "proper" as much as we like.

But they are actors, and they act. With their voices.

[(Anonymous)]

Patrick Stewart and David Tennant are both Brits. They may not speak with the exact same accent as Americans, but from birth they've been taught a language with the exact same sounds as the ones present in the English language. People who's first language isn't English can't code switch like that. And I've seen many top skilled American and British actors attempting to speak in my native language and the whole movie theater in my country burst out laughing at how unnatural they sounded. You can't act with your voice in a language that uses sounds not natural to your throat and muscles.

[(Anonymous)]

Fair point.

[(Anonymous)]

Switching between accents as part of a performance isn't code-switching.

Nothing against you personally, just two decades of pulling my hair at people citing code-switching in defense of fangirl Japanese in fic.