MINI: Jack's accent
The Christian O’Connell Show
GOLD and iHeart Australia
4.7 • 823 Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Jack needs a crash course in American accents, STAT!
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| 0:00.0 | The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show podcast. |
| 0:02.8 | It's time for Knock Off Friday. |
| 0:11.1 | You jump on the lines on 9-4-14-1043. |
| 0:14.4 | Just tell us what time you're knocking off today, what time you're finishing work, whether that's in your kitchen now. |
| 0:19.6 | There's no long commute back home. |
| 0:21.1 | You just walk from one room to the other or just walk to the fridge and pop open that first |
| 0:25.3 | drink of the weekend. |
| 0:27.3 | Or you are at work and you are going to be doing something. |
| 0:29.3 | Let me know what time you're knocking off and what then are you going to be doing. |
| 0:32.6 | Jack, what are you up to today? |
| 0:34.8 | Well, I have an audition today that I have to do from my home. Yeah, voice acting |
| 0:41.1 | audition. Bluey? You're a new character in Bluey? I can't say what it is. It's not Bluey, but it is |
| 0:47.4 | an animation. And I've never been a voice actor before. So I have no idea why they approach |
| 0:53.3 | me, but they're asking me to submit an audition. I just have to do an American accent is all. Wait, what? That's a tough |
| 1:00.7 | accent for an Australian to pull off. I mean, us Brits, we're an out voice artist all over the |
| 1:05.4 | world. I mean, there's Hugh Lorry in House, Damien Lewis, in Homeland. You know, you wouldn't know who's a Brit. And, you know, think about Christian Bell. |
| 1:12.7 | You know, in every movie's got an amazing American accent, |
| 1:15.1 | but you never see, even Hemersworth doesn't bother. |
| 1:18.0 | You know, it's a slight American... |
| 1:19.2 | Actually, I can't think of any Australians doing American accents |
| 1:22.5 | that instantly come to mind. |
| 1:24.4 | I mean, what's the name? Even Crocodile Dundee, you know, in his whole |
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