Nicolas Cage on Dracula's Voice: Father, Accent, and Anne Bancroft
Nicolas Cage traces the DNA of his Dracula performance back to his literature-professor father's affected mid-Atlantic accent and Anne Bancroft's toxic seduction in The Graduate.
I want to speak with distinction because I'm a literature professor.
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close to me and i think the biggest influence because my father august he liked to speak with this mid -atlantic accent i was kind of channeling him in vampire's kiss so i brought his voice back for dracula he was like you know nicholas let me explain something to you okay he said i want to speak with distinction because i'm a literature professor and so he had his reasons but i could never understand why he spoke in that continental accent so um yeah so he was a big influence and So, yeah, so he was a big influence, and then
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He had his reasons but I could never understand why he spoke in that continental accent.
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he liked to speak with this mid -atlantic accent i was kind of channeling him in vampire's kiss so i brought his voice back for dracula he was like you know nicholas let me explain something to you okay he said i want to speak with distinction because i'm a literature professor and so he had his reasons but i could never understand why he spoke in that continental accent so um yeah so he was a big influence and So, yeah, so he was a big influence, and then the other big influence, believe it or not, was Anne Bancroft from The Graduate. Her
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Her performance as Mrs. Robinson — I thought that was a very toxic relationship that she had with the way she spoke.
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know nicholas let me explain something to you okay he said i want to speak with distinction because i'm a literature professor and so he had his reasons but i could never understand why he spoke in that continental accent so um yeah so he was a big influence and So, yeah, so he was a big influence, and then the other big influence, believe it or not, was Anne Bancroft from The Graduate. Her performance as Mrs. Robinson, I thought that was a very toxic relationship that she had with the way she spoke. Doesn't he look like the kind of guy who has to fight him off? Yes, he does. Well, I
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Cage channeled his father's deliberately affected mid-Atlantic accent — a literature professor performing distinction — into Dracula.
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He brought his father's voice back for Dracula — a voice he'd grown up around and never quite understood.
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close to me and i think the biggest influence because my father august he liked to speak with this mid -atlantic accent i was kind of channeling him in vampire's kiss so i brought his voice back for dracula he was like you know nicholas let me explain something to you okay he said i want to speak with distinction because i'm a literature professor and so he had his reasons but i could never understand why he spoke in that continental accent so um yeah so he was a big influence and So, yeah, so he was a big influence, and then
him in vampire's kiss so i He brought his father's voice back for Dracula — a voice he'd grown up around and never quite understood.
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