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Love is in the air at the multiplex.
Emily Carmichael, co-writer of Jurassic World Dominion, and Erik Singer, dialect coach on Elvis, are engaged. The pair, whose movies are currently charting in the top three at the U.S. box office, confirmed the news with The Hollywood Reporter and shared their exclusive (and playful) engagement portraits.
Carmichael and Singer met in Budapest on the set of Terminator: Dark Fate. Singer, who has also worked on Mulan, The Survivor and Cabinet of Curiosities, was serving as the dialect coach while Carmichael (Pacific Rim: Uprising) was there visiting the set. He confirms that he fell for her immediately, and they started dating in November 2018.
“She was hilarious and razor-sharp,” says Singer, who worked closely with Elvis breakout Austin Butler, training him to master Elvis Presley’s voice and articulation for the demanding (and critically acclaimed) transformation.
Love is in the air at the multiplex.
Emily Carmichael, co-writer of Jurassic World Dominion, and Erik Singer, dialect coach on Elvis, are engaged. The pair, whose movies are currently charting in the top three at the U.S. box office, confirmed the news with The Hollywood Reporter and shared their exclusive (and playful) engagement portraits.
Carmichael and Singer met in Budapest on the set of Terminator: Dark Fate. Singer, who has also worked on Mulan, The Survivor and Cabinet of Curiosities, was serving as the dialect coach while Carmichael (Pacific Rim: Uprising) was there visiting the set. He confirms that he fell for her immediately, and they started dating in November 2018.
“She was hilarious and razor-sharp,” says Singer, who worked closely with Elvis breakout Austin Butler, training him to master Elvis Presley’s voice and articulation for the demanding (and critically acclaimed) transformation.
- 6/29/2022
- by Chris Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Hollywood dialect coach Erik Singer has become the internet’s go-to critic when it comes to judging movie accents, so it was only a matter of time before Singer weighed in on Robert Pattinson’s wild Southern drawl in the recent Netflix release “The Devil All the Time.” Singer, who has worked as a dialect coach on studio tentpoles, such as “Terminator: Dark Fate,” “Mulan,” and Baz Luhrmann’s upcoming Elvis Presley biopic, tells GQ in a new interview that he was left fascinated by Pattinson’s work as the villainous pastor Preston Teagardin.
“I mostly loved it,” Singer said of Pattinson’s accent. “First of all, I haven’t seen this noted anywhere, but the character’s actually from a different world. He’s from down in Tennessee. The fact that he does sound a little bit different from everybody else is in support of the story that they’re telling.
“I mostly loved it,” Singer said of Pattinson’s accent. “First of all, I haven’t seen this noted anywhere, but the character’s actually from a different world. He’s from down in Tennessee. The fact that he does sound a little bit different from everybody else is in support of the story that they’re telling.
- 9/23/2020
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Dialect coach Erik Singer went viral in November 2016 after he joined Wired to judge memorable movie accents, including Brad Pitt in “Inglourious Basterds.” Two years later, Singer and Wired have reunited to put the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Daniel Kaluuya, Sam Rockwell, and recent Emmy winner Matthew Rhys to the ultimate movie accent test.
Unfortunately for Lawrence in her Russian spy thriller “Red Sparrow,” Singer says there’s something that “doesn’t fully cohere” about her accent work. Singer claims “the logic of the Russian accent is missing,” noting the back of her tongue is loose and soft and the front of her tongue is bunched and doing most of the heavy lifting. The dialect coach claims Lawrence would’ve had a more organic accent had she switched her approach and been more loose up front.
As for Daniel Kaluuya’s American accent in “Get Out,” Singer has nothing but praise.
Unfortunately for Lawrence in her Russian spy thriller “Red Sparrow,” Singer says there’s something that “doesn’t fully cohere” about her accent work. Singer claims “the logic of the Russian accent is missing,” noting the back of her tongue is loose and soft and the front of her tongue is bunched and doing most of the heavy lifting. The dialect coach claims Lawrence would’ve had a more organic accent had she switched her approach and been more loose up front.
As for Daniel Kaluuya’s American accent in “Get Out,” Singer has nothing but praise.
- 9/18/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Actors who choose to do accent films are really going out on a limb. While it may look simple to do accents for viewers, there is actually a lot that goes into it. Accent expert Erik Singer breaks it down and shows us precisely how risky the choice can be, and what goes into delivering a believable and truly great performance. He uses a few examples and points out the details that many of us may not be aware of. Here are some of the best impersonations done by accent actors and why there are so marvelous. Jaime Foxx playing
Accent Expert Breaks Down The Best Film Impersonations...
Accent Expert Breaks Down The Best Film Impersonations...
- 8/30/2017
- by Dana Hanson-Firestone
- TVovermind.com
Doing an accent in a film sounds like something simple for an actor to do, but man can it be immensely complicated. Dialect coach Erik Singer breaks down some of film's most famous impersonations and tells you exactly how special or bad it is! This video is 20 minutes long, but I guarantee you'll watch at least ten minutes of it because it's absolutely fascinating! Watch it below and let us know who you think had the best impersonation of a real person. ...
- 8/27/2017
- by Mick Joest
- GeekTyrant
Does anyone remember the video I shared a few weeks ago that featured dialect expert Erik Singer? It was an extremely detailed video of him breaking down the accents of 32 different actors in movies. This man is an expert when it comes to determining if an actor did a solid or poor job of performing the correct sounds and pronunciation of a particular accent. Singer is back with another detailed video but this time he gets into fictional languages. If you’ve got a spare 20 minutes of time this is a pretty interesting analysis. Singer analyzes some of the
Accent Expert Breaks Down 6 Fictional Languages from Film and TV...
Accent Expert Breaks Down 6 Fictional Languages from Film and TV...
- 4/12/2017
- by Nat Berman
- TVovermind.com
When you're from a certain area and an actor in a movie tries to adopt your native accent, it's normally pretty easy to tell whether they've gotten it right or very, very wrong. But not many of us are qualified to make the same judgment about accents from different areas of the world. That's where Erik Singer comes in. He's a dialect coach, and in this video for Wired, he breaks down 32 actors' performances and talks about whether they've nailed their accents or what could use a little work. See if your favorite ridiculous accent made the cut here:
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- 12/30/2016
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
Erik Singer is an accent expert and professional dialect coach who helps actors pin down tricky phonemes and intonations. For Wired.com, he recently commented upon 32 notable modern performances where actors took “some serious risks for our entertainment” with accents or impersonations. Keep reading for some insight into the best and the worst! The Ugly Kevin Costner, English, “Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves”Singer agrees that this is justifiably “the paradigm of bad movie accents.” Costner can’t decide whether to keep or omit his R’s, and overall gets “nothing right.” Don Cheadle, Cockney, “Ocean’s Eleven”Cheadle isn’t the type of actor you’d expect a bad performance from, and Singer sympathises that he was likely not given adequate time to prepare an accurate Cockney accent. He notes a particularly off-kilter sequence: Cheadle says, “It’ll be nice working with proper villains again,” where “none of those vowels really hit their target.
- 12/2/2016
- backstage.com
Creating a convincing accent, be it a Southern drawl or a Scottish burr, is frequently a key component in an actor’s process. There are so many pitfalls here: Every syllable is a chance to screw up, every dipthong a potential landmine. In that spirit, Wired enlisted the services of dialect coach Erik Singer, who analyzed 32 different movie accents to see what various actors have gotten right and wrong. Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain, The Dark Knight), Daniel Day-Lewis (There Will Be Blood, Gangs Of New York) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote) are among those singled out for praise. Kevin Costner (Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves), Keanu Reeves (Bram Stoker’s Dracula), and Mickey Rooney (Breakfast At Tiffany’s), on the other hand, aren’t so lucky. But this is no witch hunt. Singer admits that getting all the details right is tricky, so much so that an actor can ...
- 11/21/2016
- by Joe Blevins
- avclub.com
Dialect coach Erik Singer analyzed the accents of some of Hollywood’s biggest names and explained how accurate they really were in a new video for Wired.
Singer first looks at Brad Pitt’s role of Lt. Aldo Raine in “Inglourious Basterds” and explains what makes a good Southern accent. After listening to the actor, Singer states that Pitt doesn’t really hit key words that he’s supposed to.
He then analyzes Will Smith’s Nigerian accent in “Concussion” and explains that Smith is playing real-life doctor Bennet Omalu, who has a “somewhat Americanized Nigerian accent.”
“Smith doesn’t seem to be going for Omalu’s voice so much as a kind of generalized Nigerian or African accent,” he adds.
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Singer first looks at Brad Pitt’s role of Lt. Aldo Raine in “Inglourious Basterds” and explains what makes a good Southern accent. After listening to the actor, Singer states that Pitt doesn’t really hit key words that he’s supposed to.
He then analyzes Will Smith’s Nigerian accent in “Concussion” and explains that Smith is playing real-life doctor Bennet Omalu, who has a “somewhat Americanized Nigerian accent.”
“Smith doesn’t seem to be going for Omalu’s voice so much as a kind of generalized Nigerian or African accent,” he adds.
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- 11/18/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
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