"Parshall: The Russian? I mean, one of the things that both you and I have talked about so much is how the American actor Connor Storrie, who co-starred as the Russian character Ilya Rozanov, pulled off speaking so much Russian and perfected his accent. Pierre-Louis: Yeah, it was shocking, and to help us understand the linguistics behind the hit TV show, we talked to Heated Rivalry's Russian dialect coach, Kate Yablunovsky."
"Yablunovsky: Well, dialect coaching, I specialize specifically in Russian, Russian, Ukrainian, and it's about preparing an actor to speak with as much of an authentic accent, which it's not always what it sounds like. It's not always just to be authentic. Sometimes, actually, it's the opposite; sometimes it's to take the perfection out of the accent so that the character feels authentic. This is something that I got into very unexpectedly."
Kendra Pierre-Louis and Allison Parshall express enthusiasm for the TV show Heated Rivalry and praise American actor Connor Storrie for convincingly speaking Russian as Ilya Rozanov. Kate Yablunovsky, a Russian dialect coach, explains that her specialty includes Russian and Ukrainian and focuses on preparing actors to speak with an authentic accent. Authenticity can mean perfection or, paradoxically, intentional imperfection to make a character feel genuine. Yablunovsky describes entering dialect coaching unexpectedly after a local production needed a Russian coach and she was cast; her role involves shaping accent choices to support character realism rather than strict linguistic accuracy.
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