Shadowing Practice: Robert De Niro on Acting - Michael Parkinson Interview [1981] - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Alec Guinness once said on the show

that I asked him what he had to do before he got into a character

and he said he had to get the walk right.

Right.

But you actually, you research them, don't you?

You go and live like them before you do the part.

Well, what he says is very true for me too because some actors work cerebrally, some work physically.

I like to work physically a lot of times it helps me feel like, I mean clothes, putting on certain clothes can give you a feeling of another character,

which it does to actual people who are characters.

It helps them identify with the role that they want to play in life, be a businessman or whatever they want to, you know.

And one thing can give it to you.

A walk can give it to you.

Just that one walk, you can play that one thing through a whole play or a movie and it can do it.

So I agree with that, you know.

The point I was going to make, of course, was that...

I do the other two.

Yeah, I mean, the way when you did Taxi Driver, for instance, I mean, you went and actually worked as a cabbie, didn't you?

Yeah.

Did anybody ever recognize you then?

Only once or twice.

Once I had an actor who wanted me to take him to the airport and he recognized me.

So the whole thing was blown because I couldn't, you know, all we could do was talk about acting.

And I didn't want him to pay me.

But he insisted on paying me.

I said, okay, pay me.

No tip, though.

And the other time I just, some people got out of the cab and I looked at his eyes.

You know, you have a plaque with your name on it.

I turned that around so nobody could see the name, which a lot of cabbies do anyway.

And I looked him in the eye and the guy recognized me right away and just said, you were in Godfather II, he recognized me from that. And that was it.

Otherwise, people don't even look at you, they don't know.

You know, it's like a waiter in a restaurant.

They don't, you know, you don't exist in a way.

That was kind of...

And in New York, New York as well, you actually learned how to play the instrument, the sax, didn't you?

Although, I mean, you needn't have done because you could have mimed it because the music wasn't yours, was it?

No, it wasn't mine.

It was done by George Yeo, except that I wanted to learn the fingering, which I did.

And I learned how to play everything in the movie.

It wasn't, the whole point was not to learn how to play the sax to be,

you know, I could never play it as well as he did or the way Jake fights and so on.

But the movies are an illusion and the whole point is to be able to recreate this without looking like a fool.

I didn't want to look like I didn't know what I was doing because when I look at a movie, I see, you know, somebody with the fingering, for example, they're all out of, you know, they're all on step, out of sync.

Playing a jazz musician.

And I want to throw it away.

The point is to learn to throw it away the way a person who actually does know it, they don't over-emphasize it.

It's like an actor who overacts because they don't really know the situation and don't have the confidence to just be, you know, be straight.

Robert, you're at the top of the tree now.

You've got a very strongly tip for a second Academy Award.

Yet I do know for a certain fact that you don't like the thing about the, the traditional trappings of being a film star, do you?

In some ways, yeah.

You don't like them?

Well, only that...

as far as the.. being recognized in certain situations, you like a certain amount of privacy.

And, no, but I enjoy it, don't get me wrong.

I mean, certain things are drag, but that's part of it.

I have no complaints whatsoever.

What about your next project?

What are you going to do?

That's called The King of Comedy, and I'm doing it with Jerry Lewis, and Marty Scorsese is going to direct it.

It's about a guy who kidnaps someone like yourself.

A chat show host.

Yeah, to get on the show and do his act, which turns out to be very good.

You've not been doing any research while we've been sitting here, have you?

No. No, you haven't?

No. All right.

But all success with that, all success too with Raging Bull.

As I say, I do hope it gets a wider audience because it is a magnificent movie.

It's not what you call family entertainment of its kind.

I think it's one of the best movies I've ever seen.

Robert De Niro.

Thank you.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Robert De Niro on Acting - Michael Parkinson Interview”. Las palabras que más se repiten: movie, certain, recognized, actor, walk. Este vídeo tiene 72 frases y 863 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:06. El hablante habla rápido, unas 210 palabras por minuto, así que espera sonidos enlazados y reducidos. El 86 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés; conviene repasar el resto antes de empezar. 11 de sus 72 frases son preguntas, así que sirve para practicar la entonación de las preguntas y las respuestas cortas.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 12 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
cloth sustantivo	/klɒθ/	tela
kidnap verbo	/ˈkɪdnæp/	secuestrar, raptar
overact verbo	/ˌəʊvəɹˈækt/	sobreactuar
trappings sustantivo		pergeño, pergenio
recreate verbo	/ˈɹɛk.ɹi.eɪt/	recrearse
waiter sustantivo	/ˈweɪ̯təː/	camarero, garzón
plaque sustantivo	/plæk/	placa
emphasize verbo	/ˈɛm.fə.saɪz/	enfatizar, hacer hincapié
businessman sustantivo	/ˈbɪznəsmæn/	hombre de negocios, empresario
musician sustantivo	/mjuˈzɪʃən/	músico, música
insist verbo	/ɪnˈsɪst/	insistir, empeñarse
magnificent adjetivo	/mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/	magnífico, macanudo

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Significado
get out of verbo	salirse de, ponerse fuera de

Frases que vale la pena repetir

Frases cortas y completas del vídeo que puedes reutilizar en la conversación diaria:

But you actually, you research them, don't you?
Did anybody ever recognize you then?
You don't like them?
What about your next project?
What are you going to do?

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

Estructura	En el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hace	was blown · was done · being recognized
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosa	people who are · person who actually · guy who kidnaps
Present perfect have/has + participio pasado — una acción pasada que sigue importando ahora	have done · I've ever seen

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 30 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, didn't, wasn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/, musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/
Palabras largas — cuida el acento: whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/, magnificent /mæɡˈnɪfəsənt/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: overact /ˌəʊvəɹˈækt/, whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/
/z/ — sonora, no /s/: emphasize /ˈɛm.fə.saɪz/, businessman /ˈbɪznəsmæn/, musician /mjuˈzɪʃən/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

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

¿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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