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Well, you know, I mean, Dexter is not really a sci -fi, obviously it's not a sci -fi show in the usual sense,
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but it is like what in the way I was speaking about, it's a genre show that kind of skews your way of looking at something.
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For example, this is as antisocial, as bad a character that you can imagine.
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But if through the process of drama you can actually empathize with this person,
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you realize that you can empathize and have compassion for just about anyone.
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And you can't read a book by its cover.
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And that's what I love about drama.
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You know, sometimes I play these very bad characters.
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But for me to play them, I can't judge them as being bad.
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I have to be the best lawyer for those people as possible.
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And it just makes you realize that everybody is on a journey.
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Everybody has a story to tell.
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And, you know, it has this humanizing quality.
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I mean, that's not to say that, you know, we should all support mass murderers.
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It's just to say that he is a very strange person, but you end up kind of loving him.
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And that's an interesting experience as a viewer.
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Your character certainly had a complex relationship with Dexter.
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I guess fans will want to know what was it like working with the mercurial talents of Michael C.
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Hall?
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It was super fun, you know, because he's very socially awkward.
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Not Michael, Dexter.
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In the first season, he's really kind of finding his way.
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He's almost kind of childlike.
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His relationship with Rita is verging on kind of platonic.
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It's kind of...
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And then when Lila comes along, I'm able to bring out all these other elements in him and he's a little repressed and he's,
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you know, I had the joy of actually kind of bringing out these other elements.
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And I think for Michael it was quite exciting because however amazing the character was in the first season,
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he had a chance to express this other side and discover this other side for the first time.
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So that was super fun.
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Obviously you never shy away from playing difficult and challenging characters
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and I think your character in Dex is a magnificent example of that.
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As a performer, how liberating is it for you to play someone who's genuinely sociopathic and magnificently unhinged?
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Well, I mean, it's fun.
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I mean, it's fun to kind of go there
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and kind of be that person that you would hope that you would never be.
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And you've got this perfect excuse to kind of go there because it's your job to do it.
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But that being said, I must say that at the end of shooting, you know a day of being Lila
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I used to kind of have to go home kind of dim the lights drink some wine
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and eat some chocolate
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because I irritated myself you know in order to kind of be available for Lila
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I had to kind of who crossed people's boundaries
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and was always saying the inappropriate thing
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and in your face you know I was kind of like bouncing off the walls you know
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and I'd kind of need to kind of go home
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and kind of like you know throw it away a little bit but But no, it's a really interesting thing.
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You can make some really interesting choices when you're playing characters like that.
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I think that, listen, the reason that there are so many, you know, so many doctor shows and so many police shows,
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and they're quite kind of conservative shows nowadays, days.
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But the reason that they have always been successful is we like seeing other human beings in heightened situations.
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The reason Shakespeare was so big, and we talk about Shakespearean as these kind of big epic themes,
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is when is someone going to step up and be courageous
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and be a hero or fail miserably and be Machiavellian and awful?
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What are you going to do when push comes to shove?
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And I think that when it's heightened like that, it's a lot of fun.
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Well, for me as an actor, it's a lot of fun, but it's a lot of fun as a viewer.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación se basa en el vídeo “Dexter Jaime Murray Interview”. Las palabras que más se repiten: character, Lila, Dexter, interesting, Michael. Este vídeo tiene 56 frases y 718 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:38. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 155 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. El 85 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

15 palabras del vídeo que vale la pena aprender, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
element sustantivo/ˈɛləmənt/elemento
viewer sustantivo/ˈvju.ɚ/vidente
awful adjetivo/ˈɔːfʊl/infumable, malísimo
discover verbo/dɪˈskʌvə/descubrir
epic sustantivo/ˈɛp.ɪk/epopeya
awkward adjetivo/ˈɔk.wɚd/torpe, desmañado
genre sustantivo/ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/género
boundary sustantivo/ˈbaʊndɹi/linde, lindero
nowadays adverbio/ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/hoy en día, hogaño
genuinely adverbio/ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/auténticamente, genuinamente
magnificent adjetivo/mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/magnífico, macanudo
bounce verbo/baʊns/rebotar, repercutir
inappropriate adjetivo/ˌɪnəˈpɹoʊpɹi.ət/inapropiado, improcedente
socially adverbio/ˈsoʊʃəli/socialmente
compassion sustantivo/kəmˈpæʃ.ən/compasión

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

PalabraSignificado
bring out verborealzar, resaltar
come along verboavanzar, marchar
end up verboterminar, ir a parar
step up verboaumentar, redoblar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 7 contracciones y formas reducidas, como can't, I'd, I'm. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: genre /ˈ(d)ʒɑnɹə/, socially /ˈsoʊʃəli/, compassion /kəmˈpæʃ.ən/, shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, antisocial /ˌæntiˈsəʊʃəl/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/, inappropriate /ˌɪnəˈpɹoʊpɹi.ət/, antisocial /ˌæntiˈsəʊʃəl/, magnificently /mæɡˈnɪfɪsəntli/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: viewer /ˈvju.ɚ/, discover /dɪˈskʌvə/, shave /ˈʃeɪ̯v/, verge /vɜːd͡ʒ/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: nowadays /ˈnaʊ.ə.deɪz/, empathize /ˈɛmpəˌθaɪz/, humanize /ˈhjuː.mə.naɪz/
  • /dʒ/ — no es la “y” ni la “ch”: genuinely /ˈd͡ʒɛn.ju.ɪn.li/, verge /vɜːd͡ʒ/, courageous /kəˈɹeɪd͡ʒəs/, unhinge /ʌnˈhɪnd͡ʒ/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como element, viewer, awful.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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