Pratica di Shadowing: Meryl Streep - Interview - Mamma Mia! - Rare - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

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Thank you lovely Meryl absolute pleasure to meet you
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and New Zealand fans will be absolutely absolutely thrilled
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that we're getting a chance to talk to you so thank you for your time.
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Oh I'm so glad.
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And now you're putting the movie out, you're touring the world and premiering Mamma Mia! all over the place.
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It must be very exciting.
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It is.
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It's overwhelming because you realize that ABBA has fans right across the globe.
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Someone told me that One of our biggest anticipated markets is Korea and Japan.
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So, I mean, it's amazing.
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Seeing you on the red carpet with all the other members together for the first time in such a long time, how was that?
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Oh, that was a thrill.
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Because we'd worked really closely with Benny and Bjorn, But I had never met
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Frida or Agneta I met Frida in London at the London premiere and Anietta came to the Stockholm premiere.
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And she was, she's the most elusive one.
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She's the one who's stayed out of the spotlight most, I guess.
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of all the band members but she was divine and so generous and and so
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complimentary about the film and And I was really excited to see it in Stockholm because it was the first time
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I've never seen it with an audience.
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and to see it with an audience that included Agnetta and Frida was amazing.
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I mean I just was sort of bursting.
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Happiness.
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It was a high point of my life, no question.
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Well you're now part of the ABBA legacy now after the role of your daughter.
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Yeah, I felt like an honorary ABBA girl, sort of.
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I still am faux ABBA, but you know.
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Close.
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You certainly seem to be enjoying yourself on this film, Meryl, seriously.
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You seem to be loving it.
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Was it quite a fun production?
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Colin said it was pretty awesome it was really really funny
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Colin has said he he felt at certain moments he shouldn't be paid for it
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but I I'm sure he doesn't mean that but he's a It was a great group of actors that Phyllida Lloyd,
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our director, assembled.
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She put together an amazingly interesting and talented uh, cast.
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And I remember saying to her, In the earliest meeting I had with her, I said, you know, We can only do this.
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We can really only do this because it's-- It's about...
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living joyously and we can only do this if we really have fun And we really have fun doing it.
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So I said, "Just get a bunch of great people and it'll happen." you know, and she did.
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She really put together the most wonderful ebullient, witty cast.
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And so we entertained each other on and off the set.
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Another of your films I've loved recently was Prairie Home Companion.
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You were obviously comfortable in front of microphones singing.
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And did you approach the same way?
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The two boys Dominic and Colin were saying the most terrifying thing for them was thinking, you know, we're not singing in the shower here, we're singing with the two guys from ABBA.
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And they were pretty freaked.
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How did you feel?
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I was...
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I was in intimidated in the very beginning when I first met Benny.
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I met him in New York and he flew in on his own jet and sat down at a piano and said,
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"Well, will you just play through all the songs?" And I thought, God.
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because I realized that this was a little bit of an audition, you know.
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If it didn't go well, I'd probably be booted off the project, but...
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We sat there and sang all this music for two hours and just had,
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I was walking on air when I left that meeting with him and after that Because of his generous—have you met him?
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His generous spirit, you know?
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he gave us the feeling that we could do no wrong and so With that permission, the songs became ours and That was...
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That was a great gift of his.
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If you add that, these are really strong female characters
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and the character of Donna when I first saw it on stage at the West End, it really was owning a certain femininity that's very now, if you know what I mean.
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And then you bring these Abba songs and you think, you know, they were written in the 70s and they're now and they are really empowering.
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Yeah, they are.
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I mean, it's just a...
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they don't write many things about three middle -aged women in the central roles, you know.
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uh, putting Mr. Darcy and James Bond to the side.
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I mean just the cheek of that.
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It's fabulous.
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They seemed fine that they were marginalised.
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They were quite happy about it.
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Yeah, they like being sexual objects, I'm sure.
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This seems to be a good year for the Chip, but Meryl, I mean, Sex
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and the City just blew the box office out of the window and studio execs are kind of sitting up and going, "Oh, we can make movies that are
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so completely targeted towards women." Do you think Mamma Mia is a similar kind of phenomenon?
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I think that studio executives will never learn this lesson until they're all
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Half of them are women and then Bill already know that.
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Yeah.
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It's always, every year, it comes as a surprise to the executives that Last year,
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two years ago, Devil Wears Prada took them just completely by surprise.
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They couldn't believe that it was such a big hit.
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Sex and the City has taken them.
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When are they going to learn this?
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You know?
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Same with, Mamma Mia had a budget about this big compared to Spiderman, Batman any of the men.
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films, though the budget is overflowing and it's always forthcoming, no problem.
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And you've got to blow stuff up.
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It's expensive isn't it?
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Blowing stuff up.
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Yes, but a musical is expensive too,
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but we managed to do it really you know, on a diet. So Yeah.
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I'm hopeful that they'll learn that there will be a market for these entertainments.
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Thank you.
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They seem to learn, need to learn the lesson every year.
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With a woman with such an extraordinary resume as yours, Meryl, do you find you are getting those scripts
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that are coming across that you are still finding appealing with roles that you really want to take?
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You know, I've never worked more in my whole life than I have this last year.
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I can't really figure out why.
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but I've made six films this year.
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I didn't do that when I was 29 or 34 or young and hot and happening.
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I don't know why it is, but, and they've been very big sort of difficult roles.
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It's .
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sort of mystifying.
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and very gratifying
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but I'm not looking looking the gift horse in the mouth you know could be a real drought next year.
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No, unlikely.
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Now we haven't had you down to New Zealand yet
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but apparently Sam Neill's been threatening to get you down is that right?
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No I've been threatening Sam Neill that I'll show up on his doorstep because I heard about the vineyard.
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It's a good one too.
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You make some very very good Pinot Noir.
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Yes, no I've always wanted to
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to visit New Zealand and I thought I was going to be able to get there on this trip.
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But now we have to rush back because they've moved are opening up in New York.
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Oh right, so from here it's on to the onslaught in the States.
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Yes.
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So it opens down under before it does in New York.
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Nice.
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We'll be grateful for that.
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So are you taking your family along to the opening in New York?
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Yes.
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My family hasn't seen it yet.
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My middle daughter saw it in London because she's working in Rome this summer.
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So she came up for the opening and she was dancing in the aisle.
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So I'm hopeful that the others will be pleased, but you never know.
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There's great disapproval, especially from the youngest ones.
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Disapproval?
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That doesn't sound fair.
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Well, it's the spandex they're all afraid of.
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Right.
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But, you know.
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You have to live with these things.
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You do.
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So Donna and the Dynamise isn't going on tour anytime soon?
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I don't think so.
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Meryl, thank you so much.
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You've been an excellent delight.
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Thank you.

Obiettivi di parlato per questo clip

Questo video è perfetto per lavorare sulla fluency e sulla capacità di seguire una conversazione spontanea. Le domande e le risposte fluiscono in modo naturale, con pause e intonazioni tipiche della lingua inglese, ideali per esercitarti nel shadowing in inglese e migliorare la tua pronuncia e la sincronizzazione tra ascolto e produzione verbale.

Banca di frasi riutilizzabili

  • "It must be very exciting" – Per esprimere supposizioni su quanto qualcosa possa essere entusiasmante.
  • "I felt like an honorary ABBA girl" – Per descrivere una sensazione di appartenenza a un gruppo o a una comunità.
  • "We can only do this if we really have fun" – Per sottolineare l'importanza di un elemento (in questo caso, il divertimento) per il successo di un'attività.
  • "I was intimidated in the very beginning" – Per confessare una sensazione di timore o imbarazzo all'inizio di una situazione.

Correggi i tuoi punti deboli

Il dialogo presenta molte frasi con intonazioni ascendenti (nelle domande) e discendenti (nelle affermazioni), che sono cruciali per essere capito correttamente. Pratica il shadow speech ripetendo le frasi di Meryl Streep e del presentatore, cercando di imitare la loro melodia e il ritmo. Inoltre, le pause tra le parole e le espressioni colloquiali (come "sort of" o "you know") sono ottime per esercitare la pratica di conversazione in inglese in contesti reali. Usa un shadowing site per registrare te stesso e confrontarti con l'originale: noterai come migliorare la tua fluidità e la naturalezza del tuo parlato.

La grammatica di questo video

Le strutture che chi parla usa di più, con le parole esatte del video:

StrutturaNel video
Present perfect have/has + participio passato — un’azione passata che conta ancora adessoI've never seen · has said · I've loved
Forma passiva be + participio passato — conta ciò che accade, non chi lo fabe paid · be booted · were written

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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