"It was sort of a three-tiered job for me, in that I was brought on initially to develop a dialect," says dialect coach Carla Meyer on the telephone from Albuquerque, N.M., where she's working with Australian actor Sullivan Stapleton on a television pilot in which he plays a Las Vegas policeman. But what's this about "a three-tiered job" and developing a dialect? It's Meyer explaining how she taught the Na'vi of Pandora to speak.Meyer's the one James Cameron hired in 2006 to fill an extremely particular assignment on what's now the biggest-grossing movie of all time, "Avatar." As she puts it about the 2006 start for a 2009 release, "For a dialect coach, that's extremely early." On the other hand, the task was enormous—preparing to instruct actors in a language that had already been created by University of Southern California linguist Paul Frommer from a few words that director-writer Cameron slotted in his "Avatar" script.
- 4/9/2010
- backstage.com
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