Like any voice actor, Arthur Chus accent and diction are paramount to him for all the obvious reasons. But its for reasons more personal that hes spent his life meticulously analyzing and adjusting his speech: to simply fit in. When he began taking parts that called for stereotypical Chinese-American accents, he began to realize it wasnt just for the money. I think I go after them as a weird form of self-therapy, facing what you fear in order to master it. I spent my entire childhood learning how to pass for normal in the way I spoke, to grasp for the privilege that came with assimilation. But as any linguist will tell you, the idea of perfect speech is an illusion. No one actually has a perfect accent; the definition of proper English is arbitrary and fluctuates wildly over time.
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 00:30:00 +0000
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