#i only use vcs that i would cast in that role because i'm crazy nitpicky

[apprenticeofcups]

I just wanted to drop this voice canon video I found because I wanted to share this with someone and I loved their choices. I saw a YouTube video by Dmitri A. that had Jason Momoa as Muriel and Vincent Piazza as Lucio.

The choice for Muriel for me was a "Why didn't I think of that!" moment. But the Lucio one impressed me because I was having trouble picturing actors native to New Jersey with that particular type of voice. The only one I can name with some thought is Joe Pesci.

Boy, if I had a nickel for every time I heard a Jason Momoa Muriel vc... I’m very picky about voice, though. I’m glad you found choices you liked!

on the subject of dialect, though: Vincent Piazza is a New Yorker. While NY and NJ have a lot of overlap in sound changes and vocabulary, there is a big difference between the dialects. (treating them as interchangeable is a pet peeve of mine - but like I said, I’m picky about voice.)

There are a lot more actors from NJ than you’d expect 😂 and it’s a much less Goodfellas, Guys-and-Dolls dialect than people think, too. Joe Pesci is a New Jerseyan, and either he or Danny DeVito is probably the first NJ accent people think of? but so are Paul Rudd, Ethan Hawke, Meryl Streep, Kirsten Dunst, Zach Braff, Christopher Reeve, Zoe Saldana, Bruce Willis... 

If you want to hear a nice, modern Jersey sound, I recommend watching interviews with any of them. I lean toward interviews for vcs, rather than clips from movies, because most actors use a dialect onscreen that’s different from their natural speech. (That’s another thing that bugs me in some of the voice headcanon videos floating around - using movie clips as references. An actor putting on a dialect for a role is very different from someone who actually has that dialect.) Paul Rudd, Meryl Streep, and Bruce Willis especially have a lot of the sound changes I like. ☕