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re: Was anyone else bothered by Cole Horibe's accent?

Posted by:	Michael_Portantiere 04:14 pm EDT 03/14/14
In reply to:	re: Was anyone else bothered by Cole Horibe's accent? - Jonesy 03:24 pm EDT 03/14/14

"Well, I highly doubt David Henry Hwang would have allowed it, so I'm thinking he probably just drifted towards caricature as the show went on." That's possible, but of course, whether the accent you heard was "caricature" is a matter of opinion. As I said, some YouTube clips reveal that Lee had a very thick accent, so if Horibe did in fact go a little too far with his accent, I think that can be forgiven. Maybe a big part of the issue is that I felt Horibe virtually shouted almost all of his lines -- something I heard someone else in the audience comment on, as well. ("Did Bruce Lee go through his life declaiming everything?") I attributed this to the fact that Horibe was trying to project despite a lack of training as an actor, and I think his shouting may well have contributed to your feeling that his accent itself is "bad" or caricatured.

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