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For: Showbiz Updated 18 Jan 2022, 10: 28 am EST
There is no doubt that Yalitza Aparicio began her acting career with a bang by receiving a Oscar nomination. for his debut in the film “Roma”. Getting the attention of Hollywood on the first try is an achievement that few actors can boast of, but keeping the interest of the movie mecca in the long run is even more difficult, and to achieve this, you need to learn English as soon as possible.
In the case of Yalitza, she has faced the challenge of shooting in this language in the short film “Daughter of witches” and now the evaluation of his pronunciation that he has made on his channel has reached his ears once popular youtuber known as Superholly. In summary, the actress has not managed to pass acceptably – at least in the opinion of the aforementioned vlogger-, but she has shown that she knows how to take criticism very calmly.
“The effort is made, but it costs a lot,” Yalitza acknowledged in another video recorded by herself and published on YouTube. “As they say, well, it takes time. It is a process. And now, speak perfect English… I don’t think so. Right now, the truth is no. Also, in this short, the intention is to look like a Mexican girl who had to go to the United States . And when we checked what pronunciation it should have, what tone, the director remarked that it had to be noted that it was not from there”.
Actually, Superholly considers that Yalitza’s intervention in the short film is not enough to analyze her accent and fluency and, although he searched for other interviews where he spoke English, he was almost unable to find them. Actually, that has only made his opinion of the actress better for having been able to stand firm asking that others adapt to her by interviewing her in Spanish during her stay in the United States.
The aforementioned, For his part, admitted that he finds it difficult to express himself in English even now that he has been studying it for some time due to his innate shyness. “The truth is that our Superholly is right,” he said. “It is never too late to start. It has cost me a lot, it still costs me too much. Those who have known me from the beginning know that I had never spoken English, what’s more, it was hard for me to express myself or talk to people I didn’t know”.
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