Interview with Roy Samuelson: leading voice over artist in film, television, radio

It’s sometimes the one word that trips me up! I’ve found that, once I fall through the cracks, it’s sometimes hard to interrupt the fall.  A great example is in House of Cardin. I had to say a word with the French pronunciation but it came out with the English pronunciation. Reading the English, hearing French, and saying one French word, while also watching the timecode, and following the inflections of the French speaker, I guess I had to give up something… and that something just happened to be pronouncing that one word. It happened about 3 times throughout the movie. I couldn’t see the engineer roll his eyes, but I could ALMOST hear the eye rolls — there’s no way to learn every word and every pronunciation.  I do my best to be open and flexible when I am in a session. If I don’t know...I’ll ask, and that helps save a lot of hassle down the road.