David Tennant discusses tackling a Russian accent to star as the title character in new drama 'Litvi

(6 Dec 2022)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
London, 30 November 2022
1. SOUNDBITE (English) David Tennant, actor:
"Well, I mean, Fabien (Enjalric, Russian language coach) was brilliant. He coached me on the dialect and the dialog. He's a Russian speaker, obviously, and also a very talented voice teacher, so he was an essential part of the preparation that I did for it. I couldn't have done it without him and there was a lot of a lot of sessions sitting here in this, you know, with this computer trying to, really just drilling it again and again and again. And, you know, there's a lot of sounds in the Russian and the speaking of Russian that aren't immediately recognizable to our ear, so it was a process. But that's, you know, that's just part of the job, and that's something that, you know, you want to get it - again because of all the reasons we've been discussing, you want to get every aspect of it as right as you possibly can. You don't want people to be drawn out of the story because something sounds peculiar or unfamiliar or put on. And so you have a responsibility to get that to the best of your abilities, and working with someone like Fabien made that possible."
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[@AleksShcherbakov]

Honestly one of the few actors who took the job seriously and did an excellent job learning his Russian dialogue

[@rafaelludicanti2]

Thank you.