Photo by: Scott Kowalchyk for the LSSC, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (S7 E127)
I recently had the once-in-a-lifetime gift of coaching my lifelong idol, the incomparable Glenn Close whose career I have avidly followed since the early 80s to speak Persian in Tehran series, season 2, on Apple TV+ (release date: May 6, 2022).
Tune in to start watching and see Glenn speak a language other than English for the first time in her onscreen career!
I could not be more thrilled to have had such a dream fulfilled! Thank you, Paper Entertainment, for finding me and making this creative linguistic collaboration a dream come true.
Here is Glenn speaking about the challenges of learning Persian within a short period of time on ET Online by By Mona Khalifeh: https://tinyurl.com/ycktu3a9
To watch Glenn say to Stephen Colbert “you are very witty” in Persian, click on the image above.
August marks 18 years since I left England behind and made the Bay Area my home. 18 years since my carefully-crafted English vowels started blending into the North American ones; 18 years since I started no longer sounding like the Queen of England; 18 years since no bus driver has said “what?!” to my “Sutter/Stockton” or a flight attendant “say that again?!” to my pronunciation of “water”.
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