Liz Himelstein on life as Hollywood’s go-to accent expert, from tackling Trump in The Apprentice to guiding Parker Posey’s Southern drawl in The White Lotus season 3.
Stan’s performance is made not just by his sideswept blonde wig and perpetually pouted lips, but his total mastery of Trump’s idiosyncratic diction. For that, we can thank dialect coach Liz Himelstein, who has devoted her life to helping performers find characters through accent. That means phonetically breaking down dialogue—every vowel, diphthong, and consonant change—in addition to giving her high-profile clients primary source material they can study.
“So not only do we have to have all of the sounds right and the cadence and the rhythms and the voice, but Sebastian had to have new words to say just in case,” says Himelstein. She later sends me a voice memo of Stan’s research-based riffing for a scene in which Trump implores then New York City Mayor Ed Koch to allow construction of Trump Tower. In the recording, Stan rambles on about the “deal of the century,” throwing out comparisons to Atlantic City and the Taj Mahal.
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