(September 28, 2018 at 3:44 pm)Aliza Wrote:(September 28, 2018 at 3:28 pm)Dancefortwo Wrote:
My husband is from South Carolina. He was raised in Columbia SC and his family still lives there. He's an actor so he had to lose his accent. It helped that he went to University of Southern California and came out talking like a Californian. But when he travels back to see his family and if he's there for more than a week he comes back with a full-on South Carolina accent.
Kinda reminds me of the actress Ava Gardner who was from Grabtown, North Carolina. When she did her screen test at the age of 17 in New York city her accent was so heavy the director had no idea at all what she was saying. It may as well been a different language. So he did a silent screen test. When he saw the results of the film he was dumb struck because the camera just loved her. She was stunningly beautiful. He sent a wire back to MGM "She can't sing, she can't act. She's terrific!" Here's a little gif of her screen test. Annnnnnnnnd I went off in a totally direction with this thread. Sorry!
I have a standard American accent, but I mix in southern words and phrases. If you put me around a bunch of southerners, that southern flair can come out a little more.
If you're interested, there is an AF voice accent tag thread. It would be interesting to hear what you sound like.