In A Small Light, vanaf maandag te zien op National Geographic en Disney+, staat het leven van Miep Gies centraal. De miljoenenproductie laat zien hoe de Nederlandse van kantoormedewerker het verzetsleven inrolt, om uiteindelijk een icoon van de Tweede Wereldoorlog te worden. Gies nam jarenlang grote risico’s om de familie Frank veilig te houden.
Hoofdrolspeelster Bel Powley nam haar taak dus serieus. Ze ontmoette de familie Gies, bezocht verschillende belangrijke locaties en fietste Mieps vaste routes door Amsterdam. Maar één ding bleef onveranderd: de Londense actrice hield haar eigen accent.
“Het Nederlandse accent is berucht”, vertelt Powley tijdens een bezoek aan Amsterdam. “Voor acteurs is het heel moeilijk om goed te krijgen. Maar het is geen persoonlijke keuze om Brits te praten. Alle Nederlandse personages spreken in de serie Engels met een Brits accent. Op die manier is het beter gestroomlijnd.”
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Creative solutions for accents
Dialects are often discussed with historical films and series. Famous actors and the English language sell more movie tickets, but they are often historically incorrect. This is why manufacturers sometimes come up with creative solutions. For example, Tom Cruise only had to learn a few German phrases before Valkyrie. In the opening scene, that voice immediately transitioned into his American accent. Easy for cruises and accessible to a large audience.
“I had previously seen a film about the attack on Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich,” says Tony Phelan, the creative mind behind small light He is. “Czech people were played by British actors speaking with a Czech accent. It felt weird. They shouldn’t be speaking with accents at all, because you’re looking at characters speaking their own language.”
“to small light “We passed Standard British as Dutch,” Phelan explains. The accents you hear in the series come from German immigrants. For example, we want to distinguish in the series between the Dutch and people from abroad.
Although Jess was born in Austria, he moved at a young age and spoke Dutch without an accent. Also Anne Frank She did her best To speak beautiful Dutch. in small light So they look like natives, while Otto Frank looks German again.
Liev Schreiber also Otto Frank in A Small Light.
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