The accent got lost somewhere along the way. I'm a little embarrassed about it. When I arrived in LA I assumed I'd be able to put on the American accent. It proved difficult so I had six months working with a dialect coach and it's become a habit.
It's very much like a torture sometimes, the process of trying to get rid of an accent.
I take sounds and change them into words.
Funny enough, every role that I have had, I try to tone down my accent or speak with better diction.
There needs to be an app that edits what I say versus what I want to say.
I guess when I first started speaking with an American accent, there's a tendency to create a caricature of the accent because you just exaggerate the pieces that stand out to you.
It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.
Someone suggested elocution lessons but there is no way I am changing my accent, I'm proud of my roots.
I lost my ridiculous accent without acquiring another
