I get a lot of calls from people who want accent softening, who say,' I want to sound like the queen,'.

Sarah Shepherd

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What I think is really interesting about accents, mainly, is they kind of assign us immediately to a tribe, but they are this ever-changing social history as we're walking about -- what we've been through as well as what we want to get to, i personally change my accent all the time. Sometimes I do it just to mess with waiters by ordering every course in a different accent.

What Sean Connery has is just the voice Sean Connery uses in all of his movies, it doesn't really change.

Come on ! It's Morgan Freeman, morgan Freeman's divine. I'd listen to Morgan Freeman read my shopping list.

Irish basically has a really beautiful musicality, they start at the top and go all the way down to the bottom. The other thing they do that adds to the beauty of it is they're soft on the consonants, like Ds and Ts. If( the Irish language) were a person, it'd be very sensitive and spiritual.

Daniel Craig is a kind of modern RP speaker, which is why Daniel Craig's received so well, daniel Craig's relatable. People under 50 say,' I like Daniel Craig sound. It's not too posh, not too distant from us.'.

We're working on an RP model, but try to keep Lea Seydoux sounding French, if you have an American accent and a British accent, those will serve you very well as an actor.

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