Northeast Oregon TV Weekly
June 13 - 19, 2021 l 3
BY GEORGE DICKIE
Jim Sturgess
OF ‘HOME BEFORE DARK’ ON APPLE TV+
You’re a Brit playing an American in “Home
Before Dark.” What’s your technique for doing
accents?
I’ve sort of been doing it for a period of time now,
on and off. I’ve done a bunch of accents as an actor
and it’s something I do really enjoy. I have a musical
background and I really enjoy learning new accents
and getting your head into a complete different new
way of talking.
But I do, I tend to stay in the accent for the duration
of the shoot, which is a bit weird at first and it’s a
bit of a commitment that you have to make that deal
with yourself that you’re not going to come out of the
accent between takes and you’re going to stay in it.
And always for the first two or three weeks, it feels
very weird and you feel very fake and you feel like
everybody knows that you’re putting on a fake accent.
But slowly after I’d say normally about two weeks,
once you realize that people accept you in that accent, it becomes a very beneficial thing for me
anyway. I can let the accent go. I’m not thinking about it on set.
Some actors can go in and out while others can’t.
Yeah, it’s so interesting. It’s really exciting. I really enjoy making the commitment of doing it
because it makes you feel different to speak in a completely different accent. There’s different
nuances and rules, and you do – you feel like a slightly different person. And it’s always quite
interesting to stay in it and be that person for a period of time.
And it helps you get into the character, no?
Yeah, and then you can forget about it. Because I’ve done it other ways where you jump in and out
of it and you have a dialect coach to help you remember certain phrases and it gets in the way. It
stops you from losing yourself in the moment, I think, personally.
BY JOHN CROOK
Our buddy Tom
Questions:
1) “Bosom Buddies”
2) Buffy and Hildy
3) Dan Aykroyd
4) Holland Taylor,
who played Judge
Roberta Kittleson in
“The Practice”
Answers:
Tom
Hanks
1) Long before he was considered a “serious actor,” Tom
Hanks got his big break in an ABC sitcom about two men
trying to pass as women in order to live in a femmes-only
hotel. Can you name this cult comedy hit?
2) In “Bosom Buddies,” Hanks played Kip Wilson, and
Peter Scolari played Henry Desmond. What were the
names of their drag alter egos?
3) Kip from “Bosom Buddies” was in love with beautiful
Sonny Lumet, played by Donna
Dixon. In real life, what “Saturday
Night Live” veteran is Dixon’s
husband?
4) Kip and Henry of “Bosom
Buddies” worked in an advertising
agency run by the formidable Ruth
Dunbar. What future Emmy winner
from “The Practice” played Ruth?
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