That fear that if I'm working on an accent I will never be able to act again and I can

either sound accurate or I can be an actor.

It is my job as a coach, it is part of my job to hold their hand through that.

Those two goals on the opposite side of the field become closer and closer and closer

until they integrate.

You just have to shut down your brain from worrying.

Welcome to Working.

I'm your host, June Thomas.

And I'm your other host, Isaac Butler.

And the voice you heard at the top of the episode belongs to Samara Bay.

Isaac, who is Samara Bay and why did you want to talk to her for working?

Samara Bay is a dialect coach for TV and film and I really wanted to talk to her for all

sorts of reasons.

On some level, I just find the human voice and all the things it can do, totally fascinating.

But I was also curious because I feel like there's a lot more attention paid to dialect

now, particularly because there's this kind of new British invasion over the last ten

years of actors from the UK coming to the United States and starring in TV and film.

And so we have a lot more actors performing with accents that are radically different from

the ones they use in their everyday life and I just wanted to know, how do you do that?

Yes, I agree, it's totally fascinating.

And I also think that dialect coach is one of the toughest jobs in show business.

Like there's such an infinite variety of target accents and presenting accents.

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