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Speaking the Language | Saints & Strangers


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catch working with the Aventa key
language is a huge opportunity it’s
something that I welcomed with open arms
it was something that I felt was a
responsibility as a native actor and I
can’t come to me I had to learn a whole
new language for this role we’re
learning Western Abenaki it’s tough but
we have a great teacher great dialect
coach and he’s really put in his all
into it
Western ivenna he is an amalgamation
really of all of the New England native
languages from Massachusetts up into
Maine New Hampshire Vermont parts of New
York as people were displaced over about
a 200 year period different communities
would come together and different parts
of the language is kind of coalesced and
created what we have today which is
still spoken language that’s been passed
down from one generation to the next
very few people still speaking and there
are now several dialects I have really
relied as an actor very much on the
language to allow my character to come
forth this particular language is quite
amazing because working with Jessie we
work not only in learning phonetics and
then of course memorizing but we also
work with in breaking down all the
sentences into syntax Jessie’s been
really probably one of the most amazing
language coaches that I’ve worked with a
pronunciation came first was to get the
pattern the international pattern of the
language down and the cadence is solid
musasa we’d said of nasa’s so it which
is the way we’d say it in english so we
worked that first that was the first
thing we did was get the music
musicality down of the language phenom
one tina munim one Kingdom moon in the
moon the moon
we actually know what we’re saying and
we constantly reverse with one another
to make sure that we are actually
speaking to one another and
understanding what what we’re saying to
one another are not just waiting for a
cue it seemed impossible when I saw
how much how much of this movie is going
to be in the event icky language but I’m
just everyday I’m just so pleasantly
surprised these guys are professionals
gotta pull the lock myself so what see
me I had one line that was with demo ah
Aliyah kike Hadid let’s teach them how
to farm here it’s not a literal
translation it’s a different point of
view
it literally means let us speak to them
so they can know how to work the earth
that’s it’s poetic but aside from the
beauty of it it’s a different
perspective of what it means to farm
let us talk to them not teach them let
us speak with them so that they know how
to work the earth that’s profound
because the language is a huge huge part
of an opportunity to really tell the
story we’re still surviving our language
is still surviving that’s the beautiful
thing about this project makes me proud
to be to be speaking the language and
you know it’s further for the young
people you know we want want the young
people to see this and to be inspired to
speak their own language
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