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I received an email from a Dutch citizen reading, "Just like to applaud you on Ryan Phillipe's Dutch accent in Five Fingers. I wondered myself if he really was Dutch. I am myself and his accent was very convincing. Job well done: I always assumed it must be difficult either to fake or teach a Dutch accent for someone who is not Dutch himself, but this proves it can be done." Five Fingers will be in theaters in early 2007.
I coached English actor Rupert Friend in a New Orleans accent and American actor Jessica Chastain in a South Carolina accent for the independent feature Jolene, based on the E.L. Doctorow short story, currently lensing in Arizona.
Reelz Channel, a new cable network devoted to films and filmmaking, sent a crew to my studio to record me working with a client for an interstitial about my work. It will show between longer programs as one of a series of shorts about people who work on films.