Owen Pryce
29 Dec 2025
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Role is specifically written with an accent I can do about 80% of. Do I send it and hope, or skip?
Auditions & Self-Tapes
Do I have to do the accent if the breakdown asks for one I am shaky at?
4 replies
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Yvette Brossard
29 Dec 2025
Send it. 80% at the tape stage is fine because they know a dialect coach exists. What they cannot fix is you not being in the pile.
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Delphine Aubert
31 Dec 2025
The exception is if the accent is the entire point of the character. Then a shaky one is worse than a good neutral read.
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Bea Ashworth
1 Jan 2026
Do not let the accent eat the acting. A perfect accent attached to a dead performance loses to a decent accent attached to a live one every single time.
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Ken Vasquez
2 Jan 2026
I would also say do not list it on your resume until it is genuinely solid, because being called in on it and not having it is much worse than not being called.
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