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Digressing hugely, but this seems the best place to ask—a question for all the Sirius Black fans: any suggestions as to what sort of voice I should use for Black?
As I read the books aloud to my daughter, I like to use different voices: for the minor characters and walk-ons, I can get away with a generic Monty Python twit sound, but for each of the main characters should have hir own unique tones. Thus far, I've mostly been able to get away with mimicking the actors from the films (though the finer subtleties of Alan Rickman's adenoidal snarl still elude me).
But now we're reading Prisoner (which is, as many have pointed out, notably better-written than Chamber), and two new characters have appeared on the scene. I'm doing Lupin in a raspy Welsh whisper—he sounds a bit like John Cale, actually—and that suits him. But Sirius Black, who will apparently be a major character indeed, has still not made his voice known to me.
I want him to be distinctive, perhaps by accent: I've considered a slight sort of Joschka Fischer German—"Har-r-r-ry, I ham your gottfazzer!"—but I'm not sure. Zouth Ifrikan doesn't seem quite right either (Zayreeizz Bleck, the Preeznah of Izkiben).
Gary Oldman, of course, will be playing Black in the upcoming film—but I can't quite get a handle on his voice.
We're about halfway in, and Black will be making his first appearance in about a hundred pages—so I need your suggestions, and I need 'em quick: whom should Sirius Black sound like? |
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