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How Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Accent Went from Being an Obstacle to an Asset · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Out of every voice you've ever heard up on the
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Speaker 2: silver screen, Arnold Schortzeneger has to be one of the
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Speaker 2: most legendary and recognizable things, in large part to his
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Speaker 2: stick Austrian accent. You can practically hear him inside your
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Speaker 2: head if you think about any of those unforgettable catchphrases.
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Speaker 2: But Arnold admits on The Graham Norton Show he worked
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Speaker 2: tirelessly early on in his career to remove that accent,
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Speaker 2: but simply couldn't do it, saying I had an English coach,
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Speaker 2: an acting coach, a speech coach, and an accent removal coach,
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Speaker 2: but I should have gotten my money back. It was helpful,
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Speaker 2: but he didn't get rid of my accent. But the
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Speaker 2: funny thing is all the genius the same accent was
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Speaker 2: an obstacle for me to become a leading man. It
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Speaker 2: became an asset. Think of when I did Terminator. Jim
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Speaker 2: Cameron said, what made Terminator work and why it became
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Speaker 2: successful is because Schwartzenegger talks like a machine. Words of
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Speaker 2: Arnold Schwartzenegger and Jim Cameron. Arnold's docu series is on
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Speaker 2: Netflix that's direct from Hollywood,