How hard was it nailing that Boston accent?
Well I am from New York and I think there is a similar attitude, a kind of defensiveness. But the sounds are completely different. My accent improved simply by being in Boston and spending time talking to people from Boston. It also helped that Jill Quigg, the actress who plays Dottie my best friend in the film is from Boston and she never left my side. She very generously let me record her and she would keep listening to me and say ‘watch your ‘Rs’, there is no R there.’ The Affleck brothers also helped. Ben gave me a lot of freedom, he said: ‘ it doesn’t matter if a word is not exactly right, if one word pops out that sounds too New York we can fix it in post (production).’ He told me ‘that’s our job, we are working with the best camera crew and sound crew and we can fix that stuff, you just worry about the scene.’ There was constant encouragement and freedom and we did fix a couple of words here and there like the word ‘her’, but mostly it was fine. Can you talk about the style of y
