In today’s Hollywood, the wrong vowel can cost you the role. Florence Pugh slips from Derby to Brooklyn and back again between projects. Paul Mescal makes Maynooth sound Malibu. Benedict Cumberbatch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lupita Nyong’o had to lose her Kenyan accent in order to become an American actor and take on different Hollywood roles, and she ...

Academy Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o felt that losing her Kenyan accent would be desirable to gain Hollywood accessibility. The Wild Robot star, who is of Kenyan descent but was born in Mexico ...

Lupita Nyong’o made a sacrifice early in her career. Wanting to better understand the boundaries of her own talents so that she could push and expand them, she enrolled in drama school. One area of ...

Don’t let Rose Byrne’s American accent in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You fool you. Voice coach Victoria Mielewska says Australians have a talent.

Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong’o recently opened up about the emotional challenges she faced in adjusting her Kenyan accent to fit into Hollywood. Speaking on the What Now? with Trevor Noah ...

Award-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o has opened up about her complex relationship with accents in the first episode of her new podcast, Mind Your Own. During the conversation, Lupita shared how she ...

Geoffrey Rush, Rose Byrne, Cate Blanchett — voice coach Victoria Mielewska has trained some of Australia’s most famous ...

Lupita Nyong’o had to lose her Kenyan accent in order to become an American actor and take on different Hollywood roles, and she said during a recent episode of the “What Now? With Trevor Noah” ...