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...most difficult and time consuming part was becoming American--I'm not gifted with accents or dialects, and I had to spend a lot of time trying to lose my Scottish accent. I also worked for six weeks in a psychiatric hospital. To begin with it was scary because I was working with people who had committed atrocious crimes-it was a high security place--but by the end of it I was fairly sad to leave...
...With a rich Italian accent, he lulls women into falling in love with him...His deep voice is like a drug... a specialist in the infernal regions...
...correspondent I felt safe except for the same things as everyone, such as falling off a cliff on the edge of a road," she said. "I was never afraid for my life in Bogota or traveling through the country and never received a threat. My accent protected me and gave me greater access...
...minute. A cigarette break? Isn't Crowe playing Jeffrey Wigand, the tobacco-industry executive who blew the whistle on his bosses, helped spark a billion-dollar court battle, and now teaches the evils of cigarettes to kids? Crowe smiles apologetically. "I love irony, lovey," he says in his Aussie accent and lights up another cigarette...
...prepare for the role, Crowe perfected his American accent, put on 50 lbs. and dyed his hair seven times; then, when he still didn't look old enough, he shaved his head for a wig. Getting inside Wigand's head was more difficult. The two men spent less than two days together in South Carolina, golfing and talking about Wigand's new passion--teaching kids about the addictive ways of tobacco. "He makes it very hard for you to like him. He just doesn't care that much," says Crowe, who feels no need to win friends either. "The thing...