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Colin Farrell, a master of physical transformations and accents, shares with THR at 'The Penguin' premiere the "anchor words" that help him maintain Penguin's strong New York accent.
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00:00I know a lot of people are talking about the prosthetics and the physical transformation.
00:03I just wanted to praise your accents.
00:05I feel like your accents are always so spot on.
00:07So the New York accent as well, was there a phrase or a word that you had to say to kind of get in and out of it?
00:12Or was it relatively easy?
00:13For some reason, Gefilte fish became an anchor.
00:16If the accent was beginning to go up.
00:17My dialect coach, Jessica Drake, she has a library of thousands of accents from all over the world,
00:23dating back to the 30s and 40s.
00:24So when we're preparing for something, we go in based on where the character's from.
00:28And you have a listen to four or five different recordings from around that region.
00:31And then you'll narrow zone into something that you think is good energetically, not just the sound, yada, yada.
00:35And so there was a gentleman who was a manager of an apartment complex in the 80s.
00:41He was older. He sounded about 60 or so.
00:43And he talked a lot about Gefilte fish.
00:46And so whenever my accent started to go, she'd call me back and I'd say Gefilte fish.
00:49And that would kind of, it was just a little trick to, but thanks for the props.
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