Emily Blunt said she experimented with the alien language she uses in Steven Spielberg's "Disclosure Day" in her bathroom.
  • drdiddlybadger@pawb.socialEnglish
    12 days

    Its so odd that they even suggested having a machine do it when they already had the actor on payroll. They would’ve had to post process it and tune it anyway.

    • HeartyOfGlass@piefed.socialEnglish
      12 days

      Tells me that AI was already ingrained in the process. Reeks of “well, we’re doing it here & here, why not with her voice, too?”

  • Deacon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12 days

    What’s crazy about this, at least to me, is that you have in Emily Blunt one of the best at using and changing her voice in her acting. I always think of her and Tom Hardy as the best in this area. It’s like they are voice acting on top of their normal acting. That’s a poor way to describe it, but it’s the best I can do.

    I don’t want to take anything away from any other aspect of Emily Blunt’s toolkit as an actor. But using AI for any aspect of her voice acting is like trading a Bentley for a fucking Daewoo.

  • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12 days

    She also speaks russian and korean in the movie, I hope it sounded fluent to native speakers too. As someone who doesn’t speak those languages it was very convincing.

      • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        12 days

        Though rarely it has to. Someone speaking multiple entirely different languages usually can’t pronounce them all like a native speaker no matter how good they are, so small issues are perfectly acceptable.

        It only really becomes a problem when movies try to convince us that it’s supposed to be their native language, e.g Scarlet Johansson as the Black Widow - who is supposed to be a Russian spy.

        • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
          12 days

          Scarlet Johansson as the Black Widow - who is supposed to be a Russian spy.

          Not a particularly good example to pick. She wouldn’t be a very effective Red Room spy if she had a native Russian accent she couldn’t disguise at all.

          Should have picked something more like Tom Cruise… In anything.

          • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            12 days

            I’m not saying she should have a Russian accent while speaking English - she is a spy, that would be stupid - but that Scarlet Johansson is pretty rubbish at speaking Russian, which her character should be perfectly fluent in as that’s her native language.

    • DougPiranha42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12 days

      As someone fluent in Alien, I can confirm she sounded like gibberish, but the accent was on spot.