Dominic West, aka Detective Jimmy McNulty, is a British actor who had to adjust his accent to be authentic in his role on the iconic TV series ‘The Wire’. The show is set in Baltimore and is suffused with Baltimore culture, including its language.
Co-creator Ed Burns said that West spent a lot of time going over the accent with David Simon: ‘“Now, say it like po-lice.” “Police.” “No, po-lice.”’ Others helped out as well. Peter Gerety, a veteran of stage and screen who played Judge Daniel Phelan, said West asked him for guidance:
He said, ‘I need you to listen to me. I’ve got to get this Baltimore accent down,’ because, of course, he’s British. He actually does a really good American accent, but I sort of sat with him, and he just worked through stuff for a couple of days, just to get his Baltimore accent closer. Not that I was all that great with it, but I think I helped him a little bit.
Dominic West elaborates on the challenge:
It never got any easier for me. It was a real problem for me, actually. I worked pretty hard on it. I think the producers felt that, eventually, perhaps I wouldn’t need the coach anymore, but I did. I needed it right up until we wrapped the whole series, and it was a constant effort particularly any time he [McNulty] got emotional or you started shouting. That’s when you lose the accent and start going into your own accent. I always dreaded those scenes, and it was a pain.
🚨 “DID WE DIE?” - MAN QUESTIONS WHETHER WE QUANTUM-JUMPED INTO A BROKEN REALITY
“Everything’s on freaking repeat.
Movies are on repeat.
Creativity is almost non-existent.”
“The Mandela effects are crazy.”
“Did any of you have an experience where you think you might have died and just quantum-leaped into a whole new timeline?”
He goes on:
“Nothing’s the same… and everything sucks.”
“Are all these NPC people out here just making it look like life is normal - but it’s not?”
“It feels like a trial… like I’m being judged.”
He wonders if this is quantum immortality - surviving death by slipping into a nearby timeline - or something darker.
“Are we in purgatory?”
He ends with the question a lot of people are quietly asking:
“Are we dead?”
Have you ever had a moment where you should’ve died and life felt off ever since?
Godfrey discusses the time he spent with Stan Lee and says X-Men is about Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, while Superman is based on the Black Egyptian god Osiris.
(🎥 One54 Africa/YouTube)
Haven’t listened to the Savage album.
I don’t think I ever will.
When he mentioned in that interview that he doesn’t care about rapping like that, it made me realize that he genuinely doesn’t take his art seriously.
So why should I?
@PUSHA_T’s quote comes to mind..