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Anthony Mackie Didn't Hide His Heavy New Orleans Accent When He Auditioned for Julliard
In fact, the actor embraced it--and he got in. Watch this video of Anthony Mackie talking about his auditions here.
Released on 7/4/2016
Credits
Starring: | Anthony Mackie |
Transcript
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My audition for Julliard was,
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at best, chaotic.
00:05
It was just a building full of people,
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all of my friends were auditioning,
00:10
and ironically, I wasn't really nervous.
00:12
Like I always felt like if I didn't get into Julliard,
00:15
like I had a lot of other options, I guess,
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so I didn't put a lot of stress on myself.
00:21
I feel like a lot of people shoot themselves
00:22
in the foot by saying, you know,
00:23
I've got to get in, I've got to get in.
00:25
I never did that so,
00:27
when I auditioned,
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I did Edmund from King Lear,
00:32
Thou, nature, art my goddess.
00:34
Blues from Mr. Charlie was my contemporary
00:37
and I sung
00:39
a song
00:41
from the Fantastics.
00:42
But then, after I did that,
00:44
my audition went haywire,
00:46
and the guy who was the head of the school, Michael Khan,
00:48
he was in the room with the head of the speech department,
00:50
Liz Smith, and my speech was very different then,
00:53
than it is now,
00:54
because I was from New Orleans so it was a disaster.
00:58
So they kept asking me if I had more monologues,
01:00
so I kept doing more monologues.
01:02
So it ended up I did about 12 monologues, sung three songs,
01:06
and um,
01:08
I got a call back.
01:09
I had a more,
01:10
thicker New Orleans accent.
01:12
A New Orleans accent is very different than the south,
01:15
it's own thing.
01:16
It's kinda like a mixture of Brooklyn meets the South,
01:21
so if you ever meet somebody
01:22
and they say they're from New Orleans,
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and they go, hey y'all!
01:25
They lyin'!
01:26
They ass is from Texas and they trying to be cool,
01:30
cause we don't talk like that.
01:32
No, I actually feel most comfortable on the stage.
01:37
It's fun!
01:38
Being on stage for me is like walking a tight rope
01:40
or jumping out of an airplane.
01:42
And I think that's why people go to theater so much.
01:44
I think that's why the New York theater scene is so hot
01:46
because you go there for the potential
01:48
of somebody messing up.
01:49
You know, it's like watching a car wreck.
01:51
You don't want to see it and you look away
01:53
and then you just peek at it
01:55
because you want to see the crash happen.
01:57
I've had some
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direly moments on stage.
02:01
I've seen some huge disasters on stage
02:06
but I've always come out unscathed.