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NU Professor Coaches 'Chicago Code' Actors
A theater professor helped Australian actor Jason Clarke speak like a true Chicagoan.
The lead actor of "Chicago Code," a new Fox TV cop show, knows how to speak like a true Chicago cop thanks to Northwestern University professor Linda Gates.
Gates worked with Australian actor Jason Clarke, who plays a Chicago (say it with me: "Chi-caaawww-go") police officer, and other non-Chicagoan actors on the show to master the local dialect.
"I would be there about 6 in the morning and go over the script with him," Gates told the Chicago Tribune. "We would shoot the scene and they would say 'Cut,' and I would go over to Jason, and we would go over it and correct the pronunciation for words like 'Carrot.'"
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"Gates is no stranger to helping make actors sound authentic on stage and screen," said the NU press center. "She recently coached Placido Domingo in the Metropolitan Opera production of 'The First Emperor' and, in Chicago, does vocal coaching for Steppenwolf, Goodman, Northlight, Lookingglass and other theatre groups."
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