ACCENT LEARNING PERTINENT FOR BAME ACTORS
It’s been 20 years since I graduated from Drama school and, whilst I’ve long since hung up my acting clogs, I still remember that feeling of fear ahead of every audition. The fear that came with being presented with a character breakdown that read 'Errol, twenty-five years old from Jamaica' or 'Samuel, the son of a farmer from Ghana.’ I dreaded my agent’s call, asking if I was able to do a Caribbean or African based accent, to which I would respond, in a wobbly voice, ‘yeah
