"He was a dream" said Michael Mann

「他就是我要的人選。他口音調整成角色的口音，他甚至在我們談話的時候也用南方紳士的口音講話。但這可嚇到了他三歲的女兒。他女兒對他說『爹地，不要用那樣的方式講話啦。』他只能[用演戲的口音]說：『喔，我的小親親，因為我得飾演 Melvin Purivs，接下來的幾個月我都得這樣講話。』那就是他的作法。他是我的夢想，與他工作有如一場夢。」

(He clearly was the guy for me. He got the accent down, he changed it while we were talking, and he would talk in this genteel southern accent. It made his three-year-old daughter nuts. She’d say: “Daddy, stop talking like that.” And he’d say [mimics accent]: “Well my dear, I have to play Melvin Purvis and I will be doing so for the next few months.” That was it. He was a dream though, he was a dream to work with.)
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『頭號公敵』 Public Enemies 的導演 Michale Mann 對他的這番誇讚我不是第一次翻譯，但說到他是個 dream 我倒是第一次看到。雖然誇他專業聽起來很不錯，但是用這類感性的方式來描述與他工作的經驗，更讓我微笑。