{"id":1942,"date":"2008-07-12T03:46:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-12T02:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2008-07-12T03:49:20","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T02:49:20","slug":"peter-sellers-does-various-british-accents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/07\/12\/peter-sellers-does-various-british-accents\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Sellers does various British accents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the making of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stanley_Kubrick\">Stanley Kubrick<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dr._Strangelove\"><strong>Dr. Strangelove<\/strong><\/a> (1964) <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peter_Sellers\">Peter Sellers<\/a> did a series of phone interviews to promote the movie and demonstrated his amazing ability to mimic British accents:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kLsVh6Qrpew&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kLsVh6Qrpew&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If you are wondering why he is doing this in make up and costume, back in the 60s actors would give generic answers to pre-scripted questions.<\/p>\n<p>They were actually talking to someone on the set and the media outlet would then edit these into the final interviews.<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000634\/\">Peter Sellers<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dr._Strangelove\">Find out more about Dr Strangelove at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the making of Stanley Kubrick&#8216;s Dr. Strangelove (1964) Peter Sellers did a series of phone interviews to promote the movie and demonstrated his amazing ability to mimic British accents: If you are wondering why he is doing this in make up and costume, back in the 60s actors would give generic answers to pre-scripted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,16],"tags":[352,351,353],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}